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Gribble

Gribble is a free pixel art editor for any device to draw, animate, and share pixel art frame by frame. No install, no signup needed.

Design

Added August 12, 2026 · Last analysed August 12, 2026 · via Hacker News

StackScope is a free public catalogue of indie launches. We find launches on Product Hunt, Hacker News and similar feeds, then crawl each site to detect its tech stack and score it for launch readiness: DNS, security headers, SEO basics. This page is what we saw on 12 August 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Gribble is largely in shape, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and fast page loads. Worth fixing first: missing several security headers, tracking cookies set before any opt-in, and incomplete email security.

Launched on Hacker News on August 12, 2026. The site is served through Fastly, with a domain registered in 2025. The crawl picked up 14 technologies on this site, covering frameworks, advertising, analytics, and baas. The stack includes Capacitor, Vue.js, and Fastly.

For context, it's running a stack combination we've seen on no other launch.

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Vibe Score 5 · Few AI signals
How much the site looks AI-generated. Informational pattern-match signal, not a verdict. Does not feed the StackScope Score. See which fingerprints fired →

Tech Stack (14)

Infrastructure
CDN Fastly
DNS Google Domains DNS
Protocol HTTP/3
Security HSTS
Email
Transactional email Firebase Trigger Email
Build & Framework
BaaS Firebase (4)
Developer tools Vite
Framework Capacitor
Vue.js
JavaScript library VueUse
Analytics & Marketing
Advertising Google Ads (2)
Analytics Google Analytics (4)
SEO Google Search Console
Tag management Google Tag Manager medium

Infrastructure

Network
AS54113 · US
DNS
Google Domains DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
Green hosting
Green hosted
Host runs on renewable energy. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
SSL Certificate
Google Trust Services
Valid 18 Jul 2026 to 16 Oct 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
1 year
Registered Jun 2025 · Squarespace Domains II LLC.

Email Security

SPF ~all Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
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DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
DMARC Not published. Receivers fall back to permissive defaults.
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MTA-STS Not deployed. Mail to your domain can be downgraded to plaintext en route.
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TLS-RPT Not configured. You won't hear about silent SMTP TLS handshake failures.

Storage (13)

Cookies (3)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_ga_JEN8KK1TYY 1y Google Analytics
_gcl_au 2mo Google Ads
Local storage (6)
KeySizeDetected as
@firebase/performance/config 1 KB Firebase
@firebase/performance/configexpire 13 B Firebase
gribble-theme 9 B -
guestPalettes 732 B -
vueuse-color-scheme 5 B -
_gcl_ls 152 B Google Ads
IndexedDB (4)
DatabaseVersionDetected as
firebase-heartbeat-database 1 Firebase
firebase-installations-database 1 Firebase
firebaseLocalStorageDb 1 Firebase
gribble-guest 1 -

Readiness Breakdown How?

Custom title and meta description
Open Graph tags (title, image, description)
Twitter card meta tags
Canonical URL declared
Responsive viewport meta tag
Favicon present
Page title is 71 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 60 characters of the title in search results; aim for 50–60 to keep the whole thing visible.
- Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)

Performance How?

107 ms Server response
82% Faster than peers
2592 ms Largest contentful paint
0.13 Cumulative layout shift
628 KB Page weight
6 KB Image weight
2 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

3 images: 1 oversized, 1 without width/height, 2 missing alt text

Indicative grade from a single automated render, not a substitute for Lighthouse or field data, and not part of the StackScope score.

Vibe Score Breakdown How?

SignalPoints
AI palette signals +5

This score is based on structural patterns and is not definitive. Many legitimate sites may trigger signals, and AI-built sites may go undetected. It should be treated as an indicator, not a verdict.

AI Stance

No AI stance declared
llms.txt published
No AI bots blocked in robots.txt
? No directive declared
? None advertised

Well-Known Files

robots.txt
sitemap.xml (6 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy
Terms of Service
/terms
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.
88% unique

Security Headers (1/6)

Permissions-Policy experimental (check browser support)
X-XSS-Protection deprecated (use Content-Security-Policy)

Build

2 JS files
5 CSS files
2 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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