Business & Finance
Validate a startup idea before you build
Last updated 2026-06-20 · benchmark measured 2026-07-31 — deterministic & reproducible
Check real search demand for a startup idea before spending months building it.
Is Validate a startup idea before you build production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Validate a startup idea before you build 80 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Validate a startup idea before you build (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 80/100
- Accessibility — 91/100
- Security — 50/100
- Privacy — 75/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 72/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options.
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 1705 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
Solo founders · Indie hackers · Pre-launch startup teams · Early-stage entrepreneurs · Bootstrap founders
Pricing
Free (1 report); Bronze $79 (3 reports); Gold $149 (10 reports)
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