Shopify vs Starling Bank

Shopify and Starling Bank both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Shopify (rank #14) holds a meaningful lead over Starling Bank (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (67 vs 33). The gap of 34 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Shopify carries 124,714 GitHub stars across 1,211 public repos, with 75 repositories active in the last 90 days and 87 external contributors on record. Starling Bank shows 195 stars across 3 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Shopify's footprint is roughly 639.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Shopify 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.