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StartLight

Startlight puts each iRacing series you follow on your iPhone Home Screen and Apple Watch: this week's track and its map, next week's track, and a live timer to the next session. Native SwiftUI. Pay once: $9.99, no subscription.

Added August 4, 2026 · Last analysed August 4, 2026 · via

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 4 August 2026; the live site may have changed since.

StartLight is largely in shape, 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 Product Hunt on August 4, 2026. The site is hosted on AWS S3 and served through AWS CloudFront, with a domain registered 9 weeks before launch. The crawl picked up 11 technologies on this site, covering analytics, APIs, CDN, and cloud. The stack includes Astro, Amazon Web Services, and AWS CloudFront.

For context, it's on a stack we've seen on only 18 launches.

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Vibe Score 35 · 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 (11) · Scale-up stack

Infrastructure
CDN AWS CloudFront
Cloud Amazon Web Services
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Hosting AWS S3
Protocol HTTP/3
Build & Framework
API Google APIs
Font Google Fonts
Meta-framework Astro (2)
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Google Analytics (4)
SEO Google Search Console
Tag management Google Tag Manager (2)

Infrastructure

Network
AS16509 · US
DNS
Cloudflare 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
Amazon
Valid 2 Jun 2026 to 16 Dec 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
2 months
Registered Jun 2026 · Amazon Registrar, Inc.

Email Security

SPF Not published. Your domain can be spoofed in phishing emails.
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DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
DMARC Not published. Receivers fall back to permissive defaults.
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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 (2)

Cookies (2)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_ga_1H2KLVH782 1y Google Analytics

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)
Meta description is 228 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?

469 ms Server response
35% Faster than peers
260 ms Largest contentful paint
0.02 Cumulative layout shift
1.8 MB Page weight
1.2 MB Image weight
5 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

13 images: 3 oversized, 10 without width/height, 9 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 code-structure signals +20
AI typography 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

Welcomes AI crawlers
llms.txt published
No AI bots blocked in robots.txt
? No directive declared
? None advertised

Well-Known Files

robots.txt
sitemap.xml (1 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/startlight/privacy/
? Terms of Service not detected
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.
88% unique

Security Headers (0/6)

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

Build

2 JS files
2 CSS files
5 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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