Pinterest vs SmartRecruiters

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

Pinterest and SmartRecruiters sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (40), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

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. SmartRecruiters shows 119 stars across 25 public repos, 3 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 258.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Pinterest is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. SmartRecruiters 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.