Social & Community: Q1 2026 vs Q4 2025

Period-over-period comparison of social & community startup engineering acceleration. How has the sector's engineering momentum changed between Q4 2025 and Q1 2026?

Startups (Q1 2026)

Startups (Q4 2025)

Avg Velocity (now)

114

Velocity Trend

-13%

Top 5 by Period

Q1 2026

1.cryptpad+999%

2.nats-io+98%

3.goalgorilla+93%

4.GetStream+47%

5.nextcloud+36%

Q4 2025

1.cryptpad+999%

2.nats-io+71%

3.goalgorilla+38%

4.bakaphp+32%

5.unacms+18%

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