Productboard vs Spreedly

Productboard (Make things that matter, together. See also @productboardlabs) and Spreedly (Simple and secure PCI compliance and payment forwarding.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Productboard (rank #625) holds a narrow lead over Spreedly (rank #727) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (33 vs 30). The gap of 3 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Productboard carries 90 GitHub stars across 87 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Spreedly shows 418 stars across 68 public repos, 11 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Spreedly's footprint is roughly 4.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Productboard is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Spreedly 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.