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Alistaircrowe

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United States Estimated origin: United States

Added April 20, 2026 · Last analysed April 20, 2026 · via Hacker News · 57% unique tagline

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 20 April 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Alistaircrowe covers some of the launch checklist, with complete legal pages and a thorough launch checklist. What needs work: missing several security headers, no robots.txt or sitemap, and incomplete email security.

Launched on Hacker News on April 20, 2026. The site is hosted on DreamHost, with a domain registered 6 months before launch. Our crawler found 5 technologies on this site, covering transactional email, web fonts, hosting, and seo. The stack includes Apache, DreamHost, and Google Fonts.

It's also one of 26 launches on this exact stack.

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5.9
StackScope Score
Fair
100/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
3/3 Legal
Complete
0/2 Crawl files
Missing
Vibe Score 45 · Some 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 (5)

Infrastructure
Hosting DreamHost
Server Apache (2)
Email
Transactional email MailChannels
Build & Framework
Font Google Fonts
Analytics & Marketing
SEO Google Search Console

Infrastructure

DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
SSL Certificate
Let's Encrypt
Valid 27 Feb 2026 to 28 May 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
9 months
Registered Oct 2025 · DreamHost, LLC

Email Security

SPF -all Strict (-all). Strong.
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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.

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
Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)
Meta description is 235 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 155–160 characters of the description in desktop search results (less on mobile); anything past that won't appear.

Vibe Score Breakdown How?

SignalPoints
AI copy signals +5
AI palette signals +5
AI writing signals +5
AI code-structure signals +5
AI layout 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
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy.html
Terms of Service
/terms.html
88% unique

Security Headers (2/6)

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

Performance

492ms response time
Faster than 36% of sites
2 third-party domains loaded

Build

2 JS files
1 CSS files
2 Third-party domains
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