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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...

imagenotfound.writeas.com · Added June 26, 2026 · Last analysed June 26, 2026 · via · 78% 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 26 June 2026; the live site may have changed since.

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.

Notably, it's one of only 2 launches we've crawled running Write.as.

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Vibe Score 0 · No AI signals
Informational pattern-match signal. 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
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
10.7 years
Registered Oct 2015 · Gandi SAS

Email Security

SPF ~all (via apex writeas.com) 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 (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
11% 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
? No directive declared
? None advertised

Well-Known Files

sitemap.xml (8 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
? 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)

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

Build

3 JS files
2 CSS files
5 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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