Remote vs Vidyard

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

Remote (rank #278) holds a modest lead over Vidyard (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 31). The gap of 15 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 Vidyard. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Remote is ahead of Vidyard. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Remote is clearly ahead of Vidyard. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Remote is slightly ahead of Vidyard. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Remote is ahead of Vidyard.

Remote carries 811 GitHub stars across 51 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. Vidyard shows 20 stars across 29 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Remote's footprint is roughly 40.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Remote is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Vidyard makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.