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Pinterest vs Perk

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

Pinterest (Pinterest's Open Source Projects) and Perk (We're fixing business travel.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Perk (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 clearly ahead of Perk. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Pinterest is slightly ahead of Perk. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Pinterest is slightly ahead of Perk. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Perk is slightly ahead of Pinterest. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Perk 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. Perk shows 34 stars across 25 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Pinterest's footprint is roughly 904.0x 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. Perk 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricPinterestPerk
Ranking
Overall rank#430#372
Pillars
Overall4042
Code7244
Education5554
Community4638
Reach2530
Momentum4348
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars30,73734
Forks4,63211
Public repos9825
Active repos (90d)375
External contributors226
Avg polish8033
Avg AI-readiness4338

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