Pinterest vs Productboard

Pinterest (Pinterest's Open Source Projects) and Productboard (Make things that matter, together. See also @productboardlabs) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Pinterest (rank #430) holds a narrow lead over Productboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (40 vs 33). 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), Pinterest is clearly ahead of Productboard. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Pinterest is clearly ahead of Productboard. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Pinterest is clearly ahead of Productboard. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Pinterest is slightly ahead of Productboard. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Productboard is slightly ahead of Pinterest.

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. Productboard shows 90 stars across 87 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Pinterest's footprint is roughly 341.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Pinterest is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Productboard looks better where momentum 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.