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Paint the Cameras Dead

TL;DR: Paint the Cameras Dead (read more) asks people to notice the surveillance infrastructure disappearing into the background of our c...

Added June 26, 2026 · Last analysed June 26, 2026 · via

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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 26 June 2026; the live site may have changed since.

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Paint the Cameras Dead covers some of the launch checklist, with a thorough launch checklist and clean crawl signals. Visible gaps: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and incomplete email security.

Launched on Product Hunt on June 26, 2026. The site is hosted on Rackspace Hosting in the United States, with a domain registered in 2015. Our crawler found 5 technologies on this site, covering analytics, CMS, javascript library, and protocol. The stack includes Write.as, Caddy, and HTTP/3.

It's also one of only 3 launches we've crawled running Write.as.

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5.5
StackScope Score
Fair
100/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
1/6 Security Headers
Poor
0/3 Legal
Missing
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
94/100 Performance
Fast
Vibe Score 0 · No 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
Protocol HTTP/3
Server Caddy
Build & Framework
CMS Write.as
JavaScript library Web Font Loader
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Matomo (2)

Infrastructure

Network
RMH-14 - Rackspace Hosting, US
AS33070 · US
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 16 May 2026 to 14 Aug 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
10.9 years
Registered Oct 2015 · Gandi SAS

Email Security

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

Storage (2)

Cookies (2)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_pk_id.16.56b5 1y Matomo
_pk_ses.16.56b5 < 1h Matomo

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 76 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 60 characters of the title in search results; aim for 50–60 to keep the whole thing visible.

Performance How?

1037 ms Server response
10% Faster than peers
1072 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
502 KB Page weight
366 KB Image weight
5 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

⚠ 1 images: 1 oversized, 1 without width/height

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

AI Stance

Blocks AI crawlers
✗ llms.txt published
✗ 4 AI bots blocked in robots.txt
Content-Signal
? No directive declared
Link headers
? None advertised

Well-Known Files

✓ robots.txt
✓ sitemap.xml (8 URLs)
✗ security.txt
✗ llms.txt
✗ ads.txt
✗ humans.txt

Legal

? Privacy Policy not detected
? Terms of Service not detected
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.
Detection works best on English language sites.

Security Headers (1/6)

✗
Referrer-Policy
✗
X-Frame-Options
✓
Permissions-Policy experimental (check browser support)
✗
X-Content-Type-Options
✗
Content-Security-Policy
✗
Strict-Transport-Security
–
X-XSS-Protection deprecated (use Content-Security-Policy)

Build

3 JS files
2 CSS files
5 Third-party domains

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