Nulab Inc vs Proton Mail

Nulab Inc (We are a small company with a big heart and all of our products are handcrafted with love.) and Proton Mail both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Proton Mail (rank #401) holds a narrow lead over Nulab Inc (rank #602) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (41 vs 34). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Proton Mail is ahead of Nulab Inc. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Nulab Inc is clearly ahead of Proton Mail. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Proton Mail is ahead of Nulab Inc. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Proton Mail is clearly ahead of Nulab Inc. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Proton Mail is clearly ahead of Nulab Inc.

Nulab Inc carries 1,860 GitHub stars across 87 public repos, with 6 repositories active in the last 90 days and 12 external contributors on record. Proton Mail shows 16,265 stars across 186 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Proton Mail's footprint is roughly 8.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Nulab Inc is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Proton Mail looks better where reach is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.