Markets · bedrock market · provisional
Discourse Plugin Ecosystem
Platform market (plugin / theme directory). The Kin Score Market layer reads each provider in its market:
who it integrates with, how deep those integrations go, and where the market publishes its own structure.
Methodology.
16providers measured
9 (56.2%)declare their own
0 (0.0%)covered by others only
1 (6.2%)distribution only (sell through, not integrations)
6 (37.5%)undeclared
4declare compatibility (report only, not weighted)
0in-market workflows shown
Provisional. Provisional and unweighted: the Market layer is not part of the composite or agent readiness. Leader lists are read within a position, never as one ranking. A provider that declares nothing we can
read is shown as undeclared, with no number: we never infer integrations.
Where this market publishes its structure
- meta.discourse.org Plugin category JSON (/c/customization/plugin/22.json?page=0..10, 330 topics) machine-readable
- meta.discourse.org Theme category JSON (/c/customization/theme/61.json?page=0..2, 62 topics) machine-readable
- meta.discourse.org topic JSON (/t/.json, 392 of 392 200) -- plugin repo URL + official-plugin statement machine-readable
- GitHub users API (api.github.com/users/, 145 owners) -- publisher's own website (domain bridge) machine-readable
Own = declares at least one integration itself; covered = visible only because an aggregator, standards body, regulator or partner contract names it; distribution-only = listed only on cloud marketplaces it sells through, a channel reported beside, never counted as its own declared integrations; undeclared = nothing we can read, so no number; declares_compatibility = providers with a `compatible` shape vote, report only (kin, 2026-10-13): never counted as own, never in depth or position.
Taxonomy how this market maps onto apis.io
Derived 2026-10-23 from the 16 providers in this market we could resolve in the
catalog. The percentage is the share of those providers carrying each one; it describes the market, not the tag or industry. Tag groups have no page of their own yet, so they are listed unlinked.
| Tags | Community 44%, Forums 31%, MCP 25%, Open Source 25%, Developer Community 25%, Community Management 25%, Community Platform 25% |
|---|
| Tag groups | MCP 25%, Messaging 25%, Social Media 25%, Developer Community 25%, Community Platform 25% |
|---|
| Industries | Music, Audio & Creator Economy 31%, Marketing & Advertising 25% |
|---|
| Areas | Agents 12%, Authentication 12% |
|---|
share of resolved cohort carrying it; tags >=0.20 & >=3 members (max 12, junk dropped), tag_groups >=0.20 (cooccurrence, non-cross-cutting; max 8), industries >=0.20 (max 6), areas >=0.10 (max 6; areas are keyword-matched and sparse), capabilities L1 >=0.20 (max 8); derive-market-taxonomy.py
Leaders by position (provisional)
Provisional: grouped by position, depth compared within a position only. Distribution (cloud marketplaces) and iPaaS bridges are counted beside
position, never inside it. Unknown-builder listings are left out of position shares and counted here.
builds-on 3 · publishes apps on other platforms' stores
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|
| Stack Overflow |
51.7 |
7 |
0 / 7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
standard 14%, builds-on-platform 86% |
| Bettermode |
34.9 |
4 |
0 / 4 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
ipaas-bridge 20%, builds-on-platform 40%, distribution 40% |
| Vanilla Forums |
29.3 |
3 |
0 / 3 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
ipaas-bridge 33%, builds-on-platform 33%, distribution 33% |
coverage 1 · reaches banks, carriers, systems or channels (an aggregator)
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|
| Discourse |
46.6 |
49 |
1 / 48 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
partner-built 2%, ipaas-bridge 8%, coverage 90% |
covered 2 · reached mainly through aggregators
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|
| Hashnode |
36.4 |
3 |
0 / 3 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
covered 25%, builds-on-platform 25%, distribution 50% |
| Stack Exchange |
23.9 |
4 |
0 / 4 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
ipaas-bridge 50%, standard 25%, covered 25% |
mixed 2 · no single mode dominates
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|
| DEV Community |
29.3 |
3 |
0 / 3 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
ipaas-bridge 33%, standard 33%, covered 33% |
| Orbit |
20.4 |
7 |
0 / 7 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
ipaas-bridge 71%, standard 14%, covered 14% |
long-tail 1 · reached only through iPaaS bridges
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|
| Circle |
7.5 |
4 |
0 / 4 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
ipaas-bridge 100% |
distribution 1 · only sells through cloud marketplaces
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|
| The Colony |
28.7 |
4 |
0 / 4 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
distribution 100% |
undeclared 6 · declares nothing we can read: no number