Pinterest vs Podium

Pinterest (Pinterest's Open Source Projects) and Podium both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Podium (rank #372) holds a narrow lead over Pinterest (rank #430) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (42 vs 40). The gap of 2 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Pinterest carries 30,737 GitHub stars across 98 public repos, with 37 repositories active in the last 90 days and 22 external contributors on record. Podium shows 86 stars across 25 public repos, 7 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Pinterest's footprint is roughly 357.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Pinterest is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Podium 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.