Productboard vs Perk

Productboard (Make things that matter, together. See also @productboardlabs) and Perk (We're fixing business travel.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Perk (rank #372) holds a modest lead over Productboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (42 vs 33). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Perk is slightly ahead of Productboard. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Perk is clearly ahead of Productboard. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Perk is clearly ahead of Productboard. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Perk 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. Perk shows 34 stars across 25 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors.

Productboard is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Perk 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.