Welcome to Smoower

[DeeJayTC]

Welcome to Smoower

I’ve been thinking about Developer Relations a lot.
Not just the nice conference photos, the polished docs, or the “we love developers” landing pages. I mean the actual work.

The Github org, examples, SDKs, APIs, Docs....Activity....networking..everything!
The signals that show whether a company is actually investing in developers or just saying they are.

That’s why I started building Smoower:

https://www.smoower.com/

Measured, ranked, public.

It’s a developer relations index that ranks companies based on public developer-facing signals, starting with GitHub, their community activities, community sentiment and much more. Its still very early, very unfinished but already works quite nice.

Build with love on Lovable!

The basic idea is simple:

Can we make DevRel efforts more visible, comparable, and easier to understand?

Right now, a lot of great developer-facing work is hidden in plain sight. Some companies quietly do amazing work on GitHub and barely talk about it. Others have strong brands but surprisingly weak public developer signals. I want Smoower to make that easier to spot.

What I’d love feedback on

I’m opening this discussion because I want this to be shaped by people who actually care about DevRel, open source, docs, SDKs, APIs, and developer ecosystems.

A few questions I’m especially curious about:

What signals should matter most?
What signals are misleading?
What would make this useful for DevRel teams, founders, job seekers, investors, or developers?
Where does the ranking feel wrong or unfair?
What would you want to filter, compare, or track over time?
Add your orgs

If your company, project, or favorite developer platform is missing, please simply login and add it!

One important note

This is not meant to be a “who is good and who is bad” scoreboard.
At least not in the lazy way.

Developer Relations is messy. Some teams are tiny. Some products don’t need massive open source activity. Some companies do incredible work in communities, docs, events, education, forums, Discord, Reddit, YouTube, or partner ecosystems that GitHub alone will never fully capture.

But it’s a useful starting point because it’s public, comparable, and hard to fake at scale.

What happens next

I’ll keep improving the scoring, adding more orgs, and probably changing my mind a few times along the way.

That’s kind of the point.

If you have feedback, corrections, ideas, or orgs to add, please jump in. Especially if you think something is wrong.

That’s usually where the useful stuff starts.