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SnakeRank

A pay-to-rank board where the leaderboard is a self-playing snake. Every cell of its body is a startup, ordered by how much it has paid. Bid higher than the listing above you and you take its place — bid above everyone and you take the head.

Added August 28, 2026 · Last analysed August 28, 2026 · via

StackScope records what new websites are built with, the week they launch. Most we find ourselves, by watching public internet infrastructure for brand-new sites; the rest come from Product Hunt, Hacker News and PeerPush. We crawled this one for its tech stack and scored it for launch readiness: DNS, security headers, SEO basics. This page is what we saw on 28 August 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Every technology below links to its own page: which other new sites launched with it. Vendors and agencies watch those pages with Stackdar and hear about new adopters the week they ship, from £15 a month.

SnakeRank ships with the launch fundamentals in place, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and clean crawl signals. What needs work: missing Permissions-Policy and Content-Security-Policy, tracking cookies set before any opt-in, and incomplete email security.

Launched on Product Hunt on August 28, 2026. The site is hosted on Vercel and served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered 1 day before launch. Our crawler found 14 technologies on this site, covering security, analytics, CDN, and directory. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Cloudflare.

It's also running the same core stack as 3,298 other launches and tighter on security headers than most Product Hunt launches.

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9.1
StackScope Score
Excellent
100/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
3/3* Legal
Complete*
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
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 Cloudflare
DNS Namecheap DNS
Hosting Vercel
Security Cloudflare Bot Management
HSTS
Email
Business email PrivateEmail
Email forwarding Namecheap Email Forwarding (2)
Build & Framework
Framework React
Meta-framework Next.js (5)
UI library Lucide Icons
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Google Analytics (5)
SEO Google Search Console
Tag management Google Tag Manager (3)
Other
Directory Product Hunt

Infrastructure

Network
AS16509 · US
DNS
Namecheap DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
Green hosting
Not green hosted
No green-energy record. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
SSL Certificate
Let's Encrypt
Valid 26 Aug 2026 to 24 Nov 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
2 days
Registered Aug 2026 · NameCheap, Inc.

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 (4)

Cookies (3)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_ga_VD1YRGXK0D 1y Google Analytics
__cf_bm < 1h Cloudflare
Local storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
snakerank.session 36 B -

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)
Page title is 64 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 60 characters of the title in search results; aim for 50–60 to keep the whole thing visible.
Meta description is 241 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.

Performance How?

474 ms Server response
34% Faster than peers
436 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
458 KB Page weight
2 KB Image weight
3 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

2 images: 1 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 writing 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 (8 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.
92% unique

Security Headers (4/6)

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

Build

Code splitting
11 JS files
1 CSS files
3 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

App Manifest

SnakeRank
display: standalone 2 icons
theme #93a869
business productivity
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