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Hillnote

A writing tool that thinks alongside you — rich editing, your notes and knowledge, with AI working right beside you.

AI
India Estimated origin: India

Added July 15, 2026 · Last analysed July 15, 2026 · via Hacker News · 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 15 July 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Hillnote looks production-ready overall, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and clean crawl signals. What needs work: missing several security headers and incomplete email security.

Launched on Hacker News on July 15, 2026. The site is served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered in 2025. We've detected 11 technologies on this site, covering ui library, CDN, CSS frameworks, and DNS providers. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS.

It's running the same core stack as 3,770 other launches.

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7.1
StackScope Score
Good
100/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
3/3 Legal
Complete
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
Vibe Score 25 · 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)

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Protocol HTTP/3
Security Google reCAPTCHA (3)
Email
Business email Google Workspace
Build & Framework
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Framework React
Meta-framework Next.js (5)
UI library Lucide Icons
shadcn/ui
Analytics & Marketing
SEO Google Search Console (2)

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
Let's Encrypt
Valid 7 Jun 2026 to 5 Sep 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
1 year
Registered Mar 2025 · GoDaddy.com, LLC

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=none None (p=none). Monitoring only.
?
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)
Twitter card meta tags
Canonical URL declared
Responsive viewport meta tag
Favicon present
Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)
Meta description is 167 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.

Vibe Score Breakdown How?

SignalPoints
AI CSS signals +10
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

robots.txt
sitemap.xml (52 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy
Terms of Service
/sync
94% unique

Security Headers (0/6)

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

Performance

603ms response time
Faster than 27% of sites
3 third-party domains loaded

Build

Code splitting
25 JS files
3 CSS files
3 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

App Manifest

Hillnote - Local AI Note-Taking App
display: standalone 2 icons
theme #fbbf24
productivity education utilities
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