Short SciFi/Fantasy Index

A fast, filterable, automatically-updated index of free-online short science fiction & fantasy. Sorted to surface what's worth reading now; read on the original site.

Added July 10, 2026 · Last analysed July 10, 2026 · via Hacker News · 62% unique tagline

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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 July 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Short SciFi/Fantasy Index covers some of the launch checklist, with a thorough launch checklist and clean crawl signals. What needs work: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and tracking cookies set before any opt-in.

Launched on Hacker News on July 10, 2026. The site is hosted on Akamai Connected Cloud in the United States, with a domain registered 5 weeks before launch. Our crawler found 7 technologies on this site, covering analytics, DNS providers, frameworks, and os. The stack includes htmx, Google Analytics, and Google Search Console.

It's also on a stack we've seen on only 16 launches.

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5.9

StackScope Score

Fair

90/100 Launch Readiness

Launch ready

0/6 Security Headers

Poor

2/3 Legal

Partial

2/2 Crawl files

Complete

94/100 Performance

Fast

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 (7)

Infrastructure

DNS	Porkbun DNS
OS	Ubuntu
Server	nginx

Build & Framework

Framework	htmx

Analytics & Marketing

Analytics	Google Analytics (4)
SEO	Google Search Console
Tag management	Google Tag Manager medium

Infrastructure

Network

AKAMAI-LINODE-AP - Akamai Connected Cloud, SG

AS63949 · US

DNS

Porkbun 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

Let's Encrypt

Valid 5 Jun 2026 to 3 Sep 2026

Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.

Domain Age

1 month

Registered Jun 2026 · Porkbun LLC

Email Security

✓

SPF -all Strict (-all). Strong.

DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.

✗

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 (3)

Cookies (3)

Name	Lifetime	Detected as
session	session	-
_ga	1y	Google Analytics
_ga_QENVHKMFTT	1y	Google Analytics

Readiness Breakdown How?

✓ Custom title and meta description

⚠

Open Graph tags (title, image, description) (partial) missing og:image

✓ Twitter card meta tags

✓ Canonical URL declared

✓ Responsive viewport meta tag

✓ Favicon present

✓ Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)

⚠

Meta description is 166 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.

Performance How?

793 ms Server response

17% Faster than peers

1024 ms Largest contentful paint

0.00 Cumulative layout shift

264 KB Page weight

0 KB Image weight

2 Third-party domains

0 Console errors

0 Failed requests

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?

Signal	Points
AI writing 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

No AI stance declared

✗ llms.txt published

✓ No AI bots blocked in robots.txt

Content-Signal

? No directive declared

Link headers

? None advertised

Well-Known Files

✓ robots.txt

✓ sitemap.xml (4658 URLs)

✗ security.txt

✗ llms.txt

✗ ads.txt

✗ humans.txt

Legal

? Privacy Policy not detected

✓ Terms of Service

/story/4-4-the-trauma-tourist-by-christos-callow-jr-8febc8e1c05a8556

? Consent manager not detected

Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.

Security Headers (0/6)

✗

Referrer-Policy

✗

X-Frame-Options

✗

Permissions-Policy experimental (check browser support)

✗

X-Content-Type-Options

✗

Content-Security-Policy

✗

Strict-Transport-Security

–

X-XSS-Protection deprecated (use Content-Security-Policy)

Build

2 JS files

1 CSS files

2 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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