Remote vs SoundCloud

Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) and SoundCloud both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Remote (rank #278) holds a modest lead over SoundCloud (rank #536) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 36). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Remote carries 811 GitHub stars across 51 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. SoundCloud shows 8,606 stars across 56 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but SoundCloud's footprint is roughly 10.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Remote is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. SoundCloud 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.