Productboard vs Proton Mail

Productboard (Make things that matter, together. See also @productboardlabs) and Proton Mail both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Proton Mail (rank #401) holds a narrow lead over Productboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (41 vs 33). The gap of 8 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Productboard carries 90 GitHub stars across 87 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Proton Mail shows 16,265 stars across 186 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Proton Mail's footprint is roughly 180.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Productboard is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Proton Mail looks better where community 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.