About StackScope

A directory of new product launches, annotated with the tech behind them.

What we do

StackScope.dev pulls new launches from Product Hunt, Hacker News, and PeerPush, and discovers newly launched sites itself from publicly available internet infrastructure (see StackScope Discovery). It then crawls each site to extract what it's built with. Frameworks, hosting providers, CDNs, DNS configuration, security headers, the SaaS tools loaded on the page, and so on. Every signal comes from content that a regular browser would load.

We don't log in, submit forms, or touch anything behind a login.

Why we built it

Knowing what tech a founder shipped their launch on is surprisingly hard. The big web-scale directories don't specialise in new launches and tend to miss the patterns that indie and early-stage products ship with. StackScope is narrower: brand-new sites, solo-founder builds, AI-first products, early-stage SaaS.

How we work

Our crawler identifies itself as Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; StackScopeBot/1.0; +https://stackscope.dev/bot), respects robots.txt, and normally performs a single initial crawl per website. Site discovery uses a separate crawler, FossickBot (details at fossick.bot), which also respects robots.txt. Occasional re-crawls happen on a launch owner's request or to apply a bug fix across the corpus. Full crawler details, including how to opt out, are on the bot page. The scoring methodology is on the methodology page. Data practices are on the privacy page.

Claiming a launch

If you're the owner of a site StackScope has analysed, you can claim it. Find your launch on StackScope, open it, and click Request fresh snapshot →; from there, Claim this launch walks you through three verification options (HTML meta tag, .well-known file, or DNS TXT record). Claiming is free, doesn't require an account, and gives you a bookmark URL. With it you can: re-scan after fixes, embed a score badge, or remove your site from StackScope entirely. If you'd like a backup for the bookmark, an optional free account can store the claim against your email so you can recover the link later. Full removal flow is on the bot page.

Not affiliated with

StackScope.dev is an independent project. It is not affiliated with any other product, service, browser extension, repository, or company that uses the StackScope name. If you arrived here looking for something else that happens to share the name, this isn't it.

Contact

Removal requests have a self-service path: claim your launch and click Remove launch on the trigger URL. We re-verify your ownership marker and hide the launch immediately, with no email needed. For other questions, corrections, or if you can't install a marker: [email protected].