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Kardashev Labs

Open-source software for US energy grid intelligence — real-time grid demand monitoring, interconnection queue tracking across all 7 major US ISO/RTOs, wholesale electricity prices (LMP), and daily solar & wind curtailment data. Built for the energy transition.

www.kardashevlabs.org · Added June 13, 2026 · Last analysed June 13, 2026 · via Hacker News · 75% 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 13 June 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Kardashev Labs is largely in shape, with a thorough launch checklist and clean crawl signals. Main gaps: missing Permissions-Policy and Content-Security-Policy, incomplete legal pages, and incomplete email security.

Launched on Hacker News on June 12, 2026. The site is hosted on Cloudflare in the United States. The crawl picked up 9 technologies on this site, covering CDN, CSS frameworks, DNS providers, and business email. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS.

For context, it's on one of the most common stacks we track, shared by 7,320 launches and more locked down than the typical Hacker News launch.

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Vibe Score 25 · Some AI signals
Informational pattern-match signal. Does not feed the StackScope Score. See which fingerprints fired →

Tech Stack (9)

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Hosting Vercel
Protocol HTTP/3
Security HSTS
Email
Business email Cloudflare Email Routing (2)
Build & Framework
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Framework React
Meta-framework Next.js (2)

Infrastructure

Network
AS13335 · US
DNS
Cloudflare DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
SSL Certificate
Google Trust Services
Valid 8 Jun 2026 to 6 Sep 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 (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)
Twitter card meta tags
Canonical URL declared
Responsive viewport meta tag
Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)
Meta description is 261 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.
- Favicon present

Performance How?

199 ms Server response
72% Faster than peers
1568 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
481 KB Page weight
238 KB Image weight
1 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

9 images: 9 without width/height, 1 missing alt text

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 onboarding signals +5
AI palette signals +5
AI writing signals +5
AI stack signals +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

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

Well-Known Files

sitemap.xml (2 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
? Terms of Service not detected
94% unique

Security Headers (4/6)

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

Build

HTML minified
CSS minified
JS minified
Code splitting
8 JS files
1 CSS files
1 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

App Manifest

Kardashev Labs
display: standalone 2 icons
theme #030712
utilities energy productivity
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