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Costbase

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Added July 13, 2026 · Last analysed July 13, 2026 · via Hacker News · 62% 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 13 July 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Costbase scores highly overall, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and fast page loads. Visible gaps: no Content-Security-Policy and no email security records.

Launched on Hacker News on July 13, 2026. The site is hosted on Vercel. We've detected 9 technologies on this site, covering analytics, CSS frameworks, DNS providers, and business email. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS.

It's on one of the most common stacks we track, shared by 10,132 launches and more locked down than the typical Hacker News launch.

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9.2
StackScope Score
Excellent
88/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
3/3 Legal
Complete
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
Vibe Score 35 · Some 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 (9) · Indie stack

Infrastructure
DNS DNSimple
Hosting Vercel
Security HSTS
Email
Business email Google Workspace
Build & Framework
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Framework React
Meta-framework Next.js (5)
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Plausible (3)
SEO Google Search Console

Infrastructure

Network
AS16509 · US
DNS
DNSimple
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 5 Jul 2026 to 3 Oct 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.

Email Security

SPF Not published. Your domain can be spoofed in phishing emails.
?
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 (0)

This site uses no client-side storage we could detect on page load.

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)
Meta description is 219 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.
- Canonical URL declared

Performance How?

68 ms Server response
98% Faster than peers
216 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
383 KB Page weight
4 KB Image weight
1 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

7 images: 5 oversized, 7 without width/height, 6 missing alt text

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 copy signals +5
AI onboarding signals +5
AI writing signals +5
AI stack signals +10
Default scaffold favicon +10

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
sitemap.xml (6 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy
Terms of Service
/terms
? Analytics present, but it set no tracking cookies on our visit (it may be opt-in-gated).
92% unique

Security Headers (5/6)

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

Build

Code splitting
18 JS files
1 CSS files
1 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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