PostHog vs Wistia

PostHog (The single platform to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features) and Wistia (One place for all your team’s video-ing) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

PostHog (rank #31) holds a modest lead over Wistia (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (63 vs 46). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

PostHog carries 40,819 GitHub stars across 357 public repos, with 87 repositories active in the last 90 days and 210 external contributors on record. Wistia shows 680 stars across 173 public repos, 23 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but PostHog's footprint is roughly 60.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

PostHog is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Wistia 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.