Rejected by YC

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Added May 8, 2026 · Last analysed May 8, 2026 · via Hacker News

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Rejected by YC is missing several launch fundamentals. Worth fixing first: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and no robots.txt or sitemap.

Launched on Hacker News on May 8, 2026. The site is hosted on Vercel. Our crawler found 6 technologies on this site, covering APIs, web fonts, frameworks, and hosting. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Google Fonts.

It's also running the same core stack as 3,222 other launches.

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2.7

StackScope Score

Poor

78/100 Launch Readiness

Well prepared

1/6 Security Headers

Poor

0/3 Legal

Missing

0/2 Crawl files

Missing

Vibe Score 15 · 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 (6)

Infrastructure

Hosting	Vercel (2)
Security	HSTS (2)

Build & Framework

API	Unavatar
Font	Google Fonts
Framework	React
Meta-framework	Next.js (2)

Infrastructure

Network

AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US

AS16509 · US

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 28 Apr 2026 to 27 Jul 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) (partial) missing og:image

✓ Twitter card meta tags

✓ Responsive viewport meta tag

✓ Favicon present

✓ Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)

- Canonical URL declared

Vibe Score Breakdown How?

Signal	Points
AI writing signals	+5
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

Content-Signal

? No directive declared

Link headers

? None advertised

Well-Known Files

✗ robots.txt

✗ sitemap.xml

✗ security.txt

✗ llms.txt

✗ ads.txt

✗ humans.txt

Legal

? Privacy Policy not detected

? Terms of Service not detected

Detection works best on English language sites.

Security Headers (1/6)

✗

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)

Performance

100ms response time

Faster than 81% of sites

3 third-party domains loaded

Build

✓ Code splitting

9 JS files

1 CSS files

3 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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