Productboard vs SmartRecruiters

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

SmartRecruiters (rank #430) holds a narrow lead over Productboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (40 vs 33). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Productboard carries 90 GitHub stars across 87 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. SmartRecruiters shows 119 stars across 25 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors.

Productboard 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.