Is Boring Stack secure?

Legit.Show measured Boring Stack's Security frame at 25/100. No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure Boring Stack?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Frameworks & Starter Kits

Boring Stack

Last updated 2026-08-23 · benchmark measured 2026-09-26 — deterministic & reproducible

Open-source project generator for building Go web apps on a minimal, low-cost stack.

74/100

7/7 frames

Top 63% of 14,138 measured · #17 of 30 in saas boilerplate

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-09-26 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Boring Stack 74/100 on 2026-09-26, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/boringstack-org/2026-09-26

Is Boring Stack production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Boring Stack 74 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Boring Stack (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Discoverability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 90/100
Accessibility — 94/100
Security — 25/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 25/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 92/100
Standards — 89/100
Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 188 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
No privacy policy found.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who built it

product account @boringstack

Who it's for

indie builders · software engineers · AI coding agent users · startups · solo founders

Pricing

Free (open-source); example production costs ~$5.96/mo (Hetzner VPS $4.59 + Cloudflare R2 $0.12 + DNS $1.25)

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from boringstack.org's own website on 2026-08-23.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-26.

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