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Added July 8, 2026 · Last analysed July 8, 2026 · via · 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 8 July 2026; the live site may have changed since.

ASCEND ships with the basics, with clean crawl signals. Main gaps: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and tracking cookies set before any opt-in.

Launched on Product Hunt on July 8, 2026. The site is hosted on Vercel. We've detected 8 technologies on this site, covering analytics, DNS providers, email forwarding, and frameworks. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Google Search Console.

It's on one of the most common stacks we track, shared by 2,084 launches.

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4.1
StackScope Score
Fair
52/100 Launch Readiness
Partially ready
0/3 Legal
Missing
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
Vibe Score 40 · 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 (8)

Infrastructure
DNS Vercel DNS
Hosting Vercel
Security HSTS
Email
Email forwarding ImprovMX (2)
Build & Framework
Framework React
Meta-framework Next.js (5)
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics PostHog (5)
SEO Google Search Console

Infrastructure

Network
AS16509 · US
DNS
Vercel 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 23 May 2026 to 21 Aug 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.

Email Security

SPF ~all Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
?
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.
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TLS-RPT Not configured. You won't hear about silent SMTP TLS handshake failures.

Storage (5)

Cookies (1)
NameLifetimeDetected as
ph_phc_q4Qf4TuN2WWzDaQCNEp3TtdzysAopoQ9yRfK5rfszAV3_posthog 1y PostHog
Local storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
ph_phc_q4Qf4TuN2WWzDaQCNEp3TtdzysAopoQ9yRfK5rfszAV3_posthog 1 KB PostHog
Session storage (3)
KeySizeDetected as
ph_phc_q4Qf4TuN2WWzDaQCNEp3TtdzysAopoQ9yRfK5rfszAV3_posthog 90 B PostHog
ph_phc_q4Qf4TuN2WWzDaQCNEp3TtdzysAopoQ9yRfK5rfszAV3_primary_window_exists 4 B PostHog
ph_phc_q4Qf4TuN2WWzDaQCNEp3TtdzysAopoQ9yRfK5rfszAV3_window_id 38 B PostHog

Readiness Breakdown How?

Custom title and meta description
Responsive viewport meta tag
Favicon present
- Open Graph tags (title, image, description)
- Canonical URL declared
- Twitter card meta tags
- Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)

Performance How?

637 ms Server response
25% Faster than peers
2020 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
514 KB Page weight
1 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?

SignalPoints
AI copy signals +5
AI onboarding signals +5
AI palette signals +5
AI writing signals +5
AI styling 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 (10 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
? Privacy Policy not detected
? Terms of Service not detected
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.
Detection works best on English language sites.

Security Headers (1/6)

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

Build

Code splitting
16 JS files
3 CSS files
1 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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