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United States Estimated origin: United States

Added July 7, 2026 · Last analysed July 7, 2026 · via · 71% 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 7 July 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Proof of Usefulness is largely in shape, with a thorough launch checklist and clean crawl signals. Worth fixing first: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and tracking cookies set before any opt-in.

Launched on Product Hunt on July 7, 2026. The site is hosted on Vercel, with a domain registered 10 months before launch. The crawl picked up 10 technologies on this site, covering analytics, backend framework, CSS frameworks, and developer tools. The stack includes Tailwind CSS, Cloudflare DNS, and Express.

For context, it's running the same core stack as 2,272 other launches.

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Vibe Score 13 · 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 (10)

Infrastructure
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Hosting Vercel
Security HSTS
Build & Framework
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Developer tools Vite
JavaScript library React Router
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Google Analytics (4)
SEO Google Search Console
Tag management Google Tag Manager medium
Other
Backend framework Express

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
Let's Encrypt
Valid 4 Jul 2026 to 2 Oct 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
10 months
Registered Aug 2025 · NameCheap, Inc.

Email Security

SPF Not published. Your domain can be spoofed in phishing emails.
?
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 (2)

Cookies (2)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_ga_2ER5L9QZBV 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)

Performance How?

215 ms Server response
69% Faster than peers
832 ms Largest contentful paint
0.02 Cumulative layout shift
801 KB Page weight
129 KB Image weight
4 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

22 images: 1 oversized, 22 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
AI writing signals +3
AI layout 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

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 (2 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
? Privacy Policy not detected
Terms of Service
/terms
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.

Security Headers (1/6)

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

Build

2 JS files
1 CSS files
4 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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