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Pinterest vs Recruitee

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

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

Pinterest (rank #430) holds a narrow lead over Recruitee (rank #602) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (40 vs 34). The gap of 6 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 Recruitee. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Recruitee is ahead of Pinterest. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Pinterest is clearly ahead of Recruitee. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Recruitee is ahead of Pinterest. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Pinterest is ahead of Recruitee.

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. Recruitee shows 411 stars across 56 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Pinterest's footprint is roughly 74.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Pinterest is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Recruitee looks better where education 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricPinterestRecruitee
Ranking
Overall rank#430#602
Pillars
Overall4034
Code7246
Education5571
Community4612
Reach2535
Momentum4328
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars30,737411
Forks4,63267
Public repos9856
Active repos (90d)370
External contributors220
Avg polish8038
Avg AI-readiness4333

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