Social & Community: Q4 2025 vs Q3 2025

Period-over-period comparison of social & community startup engineering acceleration. How has the sector's engineering momentum changed between Q3 2025 and Q4 2025?

Startups (Q4 2025)

Startups (Q3 2025)

Avg Velocity (now)

131

Velocity Trend

+56%

Top 5 by Period

Q4 2025

1.cryptpad+999%

2.nats-io+71%

3.goalgorilla+38%

4.bakaphp+32%

5.unacms+18%

Q3 2025

1.cryptpad+999%

2.goalgorilla+55%

3.nextcloud+40%

4.bakaphp-11%

5.nats-io-21%

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