# Kickstarter — developer ecosystem report

- GitHub org: `kickstarter`
- Category: other
- Overall score: 34.0 / 100
- Overall rank: #632
- Last refreshed: 2026-08-14

## Pillar scores

| Pillar | Score / 100 | Rank | Weight in overall |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Code & Polish | 49.0 | #468 | ~22% |
| Education | 64.0 | #473 | ~18% |
| AI readiness | 10.0 | #821 | part of Reach |
| Builder experience | 0.0 | #1 | ~12% |
| Community | 27.0 | #575 | ~16% |
| Reach | 57.0 | #205 | ~18% |
| Momentum | 8.0 | #819 | ~14% |

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/kickstarter
- Website: https://jobs.kickstarter.com

## Public GitHub totals

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Repos analyzed | 12 |
| Stars | 17,351 |
| Forks | 2,588 |
| Open issues | 87 |
| Contributors | — |

## Top repositories

| Repo | Stars | Language | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [ios-oss](https://github.com/kickstarter/ios-oss) | 8,670 | Swift | Kickstarter for iOS. Bring new ideas to life, anywhere. |
| [android-oss](https://github.com/kickstarter/android-oss) | 5,785 | Kotlin | Kickstarter for Android. Bring new ideas to life, anywhere. |
| [kickstarter-autodesk-3d](https://github.com/kickstarter/kickstarter-autodesk-3d) | 1,125 | — | Kickstarter Autodesk 3D Printer Evaluation |
| [Kickstarter-Prelude](https://github.com/kickstarter/Kickstarter-Prelude) | 485 | Swift | A collection of useful Swift tools that are used in the Kickstarter apps. |
| [Kickstarter-ReactiveExtensions](https://github.com/kickstarter/Kickstarter-ReactiveExtensions) | 194 | Swift | A collection of extensions to the ReactiveSwift framework. |
| [cfn-flow](https://github.com/kickstarter/cfn-flow) | 167 | Ruby | A practical workflow for AWS CloudFormation |
| [ipcat-ruby](https://github.com/kickstarter/ipcat-ruby) | 146 | Ruby | Ruby port of client9/ipcat |
| [event-sourcing-rails-todo-app-demo](https://github.com/kickstarter/event-sourcing-rails-todo-app-demo) | 86 | Ruby | A demo app to illustrate Kickstarter's Event Sourcing experiment |
| [native-docs](https://github.com/kickstarter/native-docs) | 83 | — | Documentation for native application development at Kickstarter. |
| [laptop](https://github.com/kickstarter/laptop) | 68 | Shell | A shell script which turns your OS X laptop into an awesome web development machine |
| [build-ubuntu-ami](https://github.com/kickstarter/build-ubuntu-ami) | 65 | Ruby | Create custom Ubuntu AMIs the hard (secure) way |
| [amazon_flex_pay](https://github.com/kickstarter/amazon_flex_pay) | 53 | Ruby | API for Amazon's Flexible Payments Service |

## Methodology

Scores are computed from public signals only (GitHub, package registries, docs sites, community platforms). Pillar definitions: https://www.smoower.com/docs.md

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