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Productboard vs Starling Bank

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

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

Productboard and Starling Bank sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (33), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Starling Bank is ahead of Productboard. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Starling Bank is clearly ahead of Productboard. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Productboard is slightly ahead of Starling Bank. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Starling Bank is clearly 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. Starling Bank shows 195 stars across 3 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors.

Productboard is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Starling Bank 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

MetricProductboardStarling Bank
Ranking
Overall rank#625#625
Pillars
Overall3333
Code4150
Education3055
Community169
Reach2263
Momentum4848
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars90195
Forks7929
Public repos873
Active repos (90d)83
External contributors20
Avg polish3258
Avg AI-readiness3414

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