Infrastructure & DevOps

DroppedNeedle

Last updated 2026-07-08 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible

Self-hosted music request and library engine built around MusicBrainz and slskd.

Is DroppedNeedle production-ready?

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

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 94/100
• Accessibility — 96/100
• Security — 45/100
• Privacy — 25/100
• Reliability — 75/100
• Standards — 100/100
• Discoverability — 85/100

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 — 273 ms to first byte.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who it's for

Self-hosted enthusiasts · Music collectors · Multi-user households · Privacy-conscious listeners · Home server operators

Pricing

Free (open-source, AGPL-3.0)

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