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Added May 2, 2026 · Last analysed May 2, 2026 · via Hacker News

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 2 May 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.

Passages has the basics covered well, with a complete set of security headers. Visible gaps: incomplete legal pages, no sitemap, and incomplete email security.

Launched on Hacker News on May 2, 2026. The site is hosted on Render and served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered 5 weeks before launch. Our crawler found 12 technologies on this site, covering transactional email, analytics, backend framework, and CDN. The stack includes Amazon SES, Cloudflare, and Google Fonts.

It's also on one of the most common stacks we track, shared by 672 launches and more locked down than the typical Hacker News launch.

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6.6
StackScope Score
Good
52/100 Launch Readiness
Partially ready
2/3 Legal
Partial
1/2 Crawl files
Partial
Vibe Score 50 · Many 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 (12)

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare (3)
DNS Namecheap DNS
Hosting Render (2)
Protocol HTTP/3 (2)
Security HSTS (2)
Email
Transactional email Amazon SES
Resend
Build & Framework
Developer tools Vite
Font Google Fonts
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Umami (2)
SEO Google Search Console
Other
Backend framework Rails

Infrastructure

Network
AS397273 · 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
Google Trust Services
Valid 29 Mar 2026 to 27 Jun 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
5 months
Registered Mar 2026 · NameCheap, Inc.

Email Security

SPF Not published. Your domain can be spoofed in phishing emails.
DKIM Detected via known email provider
DMARC p=quarantine Quarantine (moderate)
?
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
_quintana_session session -

Readiness Breakdown How?

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

Vibe Score Breakdown How?

SignalPoints
AI copy signals +5
AI onboarding signals +5
AI palette signals +5
AI writing signals +5
AI typography signals +15
AI CSS signals +15

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 (no directives)
sitemap.xml
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy
? Terms of Service not detected
? Analytics present, but it set no tracking cookies on our visit (it may be opt-in-gated).
84% unique

Security Headers (6/6)

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

Performance

266ms response time
Faster than 53% of sites
3 third-party domains loaded

Build

1 JS files
4 CSS files
3 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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