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Added August 20, 2026 · Last analysed August 20, 2026 · via

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 August 2026; the live site may have changed since.

The Founder Gazette ships with the basics, with a thorough launch checklist and clean crawl signals. Main gaps: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and incomplete email security.

Launched on Product Hunt on August 20, 2026. The site is hosted on Vercel and served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered 1 week before launch. We've detected 11 technologies on this site, covering security, CDN, directory, and DNS providers. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Cloudflare.

It's on one of the most common stacks we track, shared by 3,065 launches.

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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 (11) · Indie stack

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare
DNS GoDaddy DNS
Hosting Vercel
Security Cloudflare Bot Management
HSTS
Email
Business email Google Workspace (2)
Transactional email Resend
Build & Framework
Framework React (2)
Meta-framework Next.js (5)
Analytics & Marketing
SEO Google Search Console (2)
Other
Directory Product Hunt

Infrastructure

Network
AS16509 · US
DNS
GoDaddy 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 8 Aug 2026 to 6 Nov 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
12 days
Registered Aug 2026 · GoDaddy.com, LLC

Email Security

SPF ~all Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
DKIM Detected via known email provider
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 (1)

Cookies (1)
NameLifetimeDetected as
__cf_bm < 1h Cloudflare

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 175 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?

878 ms Server response
13% Faster than peers
1492 ms Largest contentful paint
0.06 Cumulative layout shift
633 KB Page weight
299 KB Image weight
3 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

2 images: 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.

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

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

Well-Known Files

robots.txt
sitemap.xml (105 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
? Privacy Policy not detected
? Terms of Service not detected
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

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

Brand Colours

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