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SoundGate

AI-powered guitar learning with real-time feedback and tailored practice.

Education
United States Estimated origin: United States

Added August 12, 2026 · Last analysed August 12, 2026 · via Hacker News

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 12 August 2026; the live site may have changed since.

SoundGate scores highly overall, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and clean crawl signals. Main gaps: no Content-Security-Policy, tracking cookies set before any opt-in, and incomplete email security.

Launched on Hacker News on August 12, 2026. The site is hosted on Firebase App Hosting and served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered in 2025. Our crawler found 18 technologies on this site, covering analytics, CDN, security, and ui library. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS.

It's also one of just 8 launches we've crawled on this exact stack and more locked down than the typical Hacker News launch.

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9.5
StackScope Score
Excellent
100/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
3/3* Legal
Complete*
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
Vibe Score 20 · 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 (18)

Email
Business email Google Workspace
Build & Framework
BaaS Firebase
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Framework React
Meta-framework Next.js (4)
UI library Lucide Icons
shadcn/ui
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Google Analytics (4)
Microsoft Clarity (2)
SEO Google Search Console
Tag management Google Tag Manager medium
Other
Directory Product Hunt

Infrastructure

Network
AS54113 · US
DNS
GoDaddy DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
Green hosting
Green hosted
Host runs on renewable energy. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
SSL Certificate
Google Trust Services
Valid 14 Jun 2026 to 12 Sep 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
1.5 years
Registered Feb 2025 · GoDaddy.com, LLC

Email Security

SPF ~all 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 (6)

Cookies (3)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_ga_GCPG740HR2 1y Google Analytics
__cf_bm < 1h Cloudflare
Local storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
soundgate-interactive-fretboard 631 B -
IndexedDB (2)
DatabaseVersionDetected as
firebase-heartbeat-database 1 Firebase
firebase-installations-database 1 Firebase

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)

Performance How?

293 ms Server response
55% Faster than peers
628 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
815 KB Page weight
31 KB Image weight
5 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

7 images: 5 oversized

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
Placeholder branding +10
AI CSS signals +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 (698 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy/
Terms of Service
/terms/
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.
0% unique

Security Headers (5/6)

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

Build

Code splitting
19 JS files
2 CSS files
5 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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