Productivity

Founder Signal

Last updated 2026-08-23 · benchmark measured 2026-08-23 — deterministic & reproducible

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Is Founder Signal production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Founder Signal 66 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Founder Signal (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Accessibility; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 99/100
• Accessibility — 100/100
• Security — 45/100
• Privacy — 25/100
• Reliability — 67/100
• Standards — 82/100
• Discoverability — 45/100

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 — 118 ms to first byte.
• 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: sitemap.

Who it's for

solo founders · indie developers · two-person teams · founders shipping alone

Pricing

$9/month or $90/year; founding subscribers can lock $48/year (first 100 paid subscribers)

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