Productivity

Basecamp

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible

Basecamp is a project management and team collaboration tool.

Is Basecamp production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Basecamp 79 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Basecamp (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 30/100
• Accessibility — 93/100
• Security — 40/100
• Privacy — 100/100
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: X-Frame-Options.
• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 273 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 built it

Jason Fried · product account @37signals

Who it's for

Project managers · Small to medium teams · Agencies · Non-profits · Churches

Pricing

Two paid plans, one free plan

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