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ACE Sidecar

A local proxy that sits in front of your coding agent and tells you what each session actually cost, where the time went, and which optimisations would be worth anything on your traffic. Runs on your machine, uploads nothing. Beta opening now.

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Added August 1, 2026 · Last analysed August 1, 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 1 August 2026; the live site may have changed since.

ACE Sidecar is largely in shape, with a thorough launch checklist and clean crawl signals. Visible gaps: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and no email security records.

Launched on Product Hunt on August 1, 2026. The site is served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered 4 weeks before launch. The crawl picked up 13 technologies on this site, covering security, analytics, APIs, and CDN. The stack includes TanStack Start, Cloudflare, and Cloudflare Bot Management.

For context, it's one of 46 launches on this exact stack.

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Vibe Score 25 · 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 (13)

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare (2)
DNS Name.com
Security Cloudflare Bot Management
HSTS
Email
Business email Google Workspace (2)
Build & Framework
API Google APIs
Developer tools Vite
Font Google Fonts
JavaScript library TanStack Router
Meta-framework TanStack Start
UI library shadcn/ui
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Tinybird
SEO Google Search Console (2)

Infrastructure

Network
AS13335 · AE
DNS
Name.com
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 29 Jun 2026 to 27 Sep 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
1 month
Registered Jun 2026 · Name.com, Inc.

Email Security

SPF Not published. Your domain can be spoofed in phishing emails.
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 (2)

Cookies (2)
NameLifetimeDetected as
__cf_bm < 1h Cloudflare
__dpl 1d -

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)
Page title is 78 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 60 characters of the title in search results; aim for 50–60 to keep the whole thing visible.
Meta description is 243 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?

1314 ms Server response
6% Faster than peers
1008 ms Largest contentful paint
0.21 Cumulative layout shift
1.4 MB Page weight
549 KB Image weight
2 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

6 images: 6 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 palette signals +5
AI writing signals +5
AI typography 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

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 (23 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/blog/privacy-at-the-perimeter
? Terms of Service not detected
? Analytics present, but it set no tracking cookies on our visit (it may be opt-in-gated).
98% unique

Security Headers (3/6)

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

Build

2 JS files
2 CSS files
2 Third-party domains

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