Productboard vs Workable

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

Workable (rank #569) holds a narrow lead over Productboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (35 vs 33). The gap of 2 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Productboard carries 90 GitHub stars across 87 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Workable shows 785 stars across 96 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Workable's footprint is roughly 8.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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