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RetroCast Now by The Weather Channel

And now, your RetroCast. Brought to you by The Weather Channel.

Added April 7, 2026 · Last analysed April 10, 2026 · via · 75% 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 10 April 2026; the live site may have changed since.

RetroCast Now by The Weather Channel is partway there, with a thorough launch checklist. Worth fixing first: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and no sitemap.

Launched on Product Hunt on April 7, 2026. The site is hosted on Vercel and served through Akamai, with a domain registered in 1994. The crawl picked up 36 technologies on this site, covering SaaS tooling, ai api, analytics, and marketing. The stack includes Nuxt, OneTrust, and Tailwind CSS.

For context, it's one of 53 launches on this exact stack.

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4.1
StackScope Score
Fair
88/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
0/3 Legal
Missing
1/2 Crawl files
Partial
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 (36)

Infrastructure
CDN Akamai (3)
DNS Akamai DNS
Hosting Vercel (3)
Security HSTS (2)
Storage MongoDB Atlas
Email
Business email Google Workspace (2)
Transactional email Mandrill
Build & Framework
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Developer tools BrowserStack
Font Google Fonts
Framework Vue.js
Meta-framework Nuxt (3)
Commerce & Payments
Marketplace Amazon Business
Business Tools
Communication Slack
Identity Adobe Identity Provider
Productivity DocuSign
SaaS 1Password
Airtable
Atlassian
Happeo
Jamf
KnowBe4
Lucid
Smartsheet
AI & Emerging
AI API Anthropic
ElevenLabs
Google Cloud AI

Infrastructure

DNS
Akamai DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
SSL Certificate
DigiCert Inc
Valid 5 Jan 2026 to 5 Jan 2027
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
32 years
Registered Aug 1994 · CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.

Email Security

SPF published Published but no all qualifier, policy unclear.
DKIM Detected via known email provider
DMARC p=none None (p=none). Monitoring only.
?
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
user-language 1y -
HTTP cookies only. This snapshot pre-dates 21 Apr 2026 when StackScope started capturing JavaScript-set cookies, localStorage, IndexedDB, and Cache Storage.

Readiness Breakdown How?

Custom title and meta description
Open Graph tags (title, image, description)
Twitter card meta tags
Responsive viewport meta tag
Favicon present
Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)
- Canonical URL declared

Vibe Score Breakdown How?

SignalPoints
AI palette 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

Blocks AI crawlers but publishes an llms.txt
llms.txt published
16 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 not detected
? Terms of Service not detected
Consent manager: OneTrust
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)

Performance

430ms response time
Faster than 42% of sites
4 third-party domains loaded

Build

3 JS files
5 CSS files
4 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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