Infrastructure & DevOps
DroppedNeedle
Last updated 2026-07-08 · benchmark measured 2026-07-08 — deterministic & reproducible
Self-hosted music request and library engine built around MusicBrainz and slskd.
Overall production-readiness score — reserved
Legit.Show benchmarked DroppedNeedle across all seven frames. The single overall score is shown to the verified maker; the frame-by-frame breakdown is public below.
Is DroppedNeedle production-ready?
Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on DroppedNeedle (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Standards; its weakest is Security. The per-frame breakdown is public on the Legit.Show listing; the single overall production-readiness score is reserved for the verified maker.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 80/100
- Security — 45/100
- Privacy — 75/100
- Reliability — 75/100
- Standards — 100/100
- Discoverability — 85/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 199 ms to first byte.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who it's for
Self-hosted enthusiasts · Music collectors · Multi-user households · Privacy-conscious listeners · Home server operators
Pricing
Free (open-source, AGPL-3.0)