Productivity

Hype Star

Last updated 2026-08-30 · benchmark measured 2026-08-30 — deterministic & reproducible

Hype Star is a curated directory of startups, apps, and creative tools.

Is Hype Star production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Hype Star 95 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Hype Star (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 86/100
• Accessibility — 96/100
• Security — 80/100
• Privacy — 100/100
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 100/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: CSP, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
• No HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 768 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

founders · product teams · entrepreneurs · tool discoverers

Pricing

Free listing for 1 year (no card required); Optional paid upgrades: $15 for 2-year listing, $20 for 5-year listing, $50 for 1-month front-page feature

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