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mercator

Gridded earth data (weather, ocean, air quality, elevation) as value-encoded tiles, decodable in any WebGL shader.

Portugal Estimated origin: Portugal

Added July 12, 2026 · Last analysed July 12, 2026 · via · 80% 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 12 July 2026; the live site may have changed since.

mercator is largely in shape, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and well-configured email security. What needs work: missing several security headers.

Launched on Product Hunt on July 12, 2026. The site is served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered 7 weeks before launch. The crawl picked up 11 technologies on this site, covering analytics, auth, CDN, and developer tools. The stack includes Astro, Clerk, and Cloudflare.

For context, it's running the same core stack as 237 other launches.

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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 (11)

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare (2)
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Protocol HTTP/3
Security Cloudflare Bot Management
Email
Email forwarding Cloudflare Email Routing (2)
Build & Framework
Auth Clerk (4)
Developer tools Rspack
Meta-framework Astro
Package CDN jsDelivr
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Google Analytics
SEO Google Search Console

Infrastructure

Network
AS13335 · US
DNS
Cloudflare 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 1 Jun 2026 to 30 Aug 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
1 month
Registered May 2026 · Cloudflare, Inc

Email Security

SPF ~all Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
?
DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
DMARC p=reject Reject (strict). Strong.
?
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 (5)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_cfuvid session Cloudflare
__cf_bm < 1h Cloudflare
__client 1y Clerk
__client_uat 1y Clerk
__client_uat_A-elnPtA 1y Clerk
Local storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
__clerk_environment 6.5 KB Clerk

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?

1007 ms Server response
11% Faster than peers
1256 ms Largest contentful paint
0.14 Cumulative layout shift
9.0 MB Page weight
430 KB Image weight
4 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

6 images: 6 oversized, 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

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

Blocks AI crawlers
llms.txt published
9 AI bots blocked in robots.txt
ai-train = no
search = yes
? ai-input (not declared)
? None advertised

Well-Known Files

robots.txt
sitemap.xml (1 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy/
Terms of Service
/terms/
? Analytics present, but it set no tracking cookies on our visit (it may be opt-in-gated).
92% unique

Security Headers (0/6)

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

Build

Code splitting
4 JS files
4 CSS files
4 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

App Manifest

mercator.blue
display: standalone 2 icons
theme #ffffff
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