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SEO Tools for Indie Hackers — SerpStep

Free SEO tools for indie hackers & solo founders. Evaluate keyword difficulty, analyze SERP patterns, and generate content briefs — no enterprise suite needed

Marketing
China Estimated origin: China

Added July 31, 2026 · Last analysed August 4, 2026 · via StackScope Discovery · also on Product Hunt

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.

SEO Tools for Indie Hackers — SerpStep looks production-ready overall, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and clean crawl signals. Worth fixing first: missing several security headers and incomplete email security.

The site is hosted on Vercel and served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered 2 weeks before launch. We've detected 14 technologies on this site, covering security, seo, analytics, and CDN. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Cloudflare.

It's running the same core stack as 2,798 other launches.

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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 (14)

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare new (2)
DNS Cloudflare DNS new
Hosting Vercel
Protocol HTTP/3 new
Security Cloudflare Bot Management new
HSTS
Email
Email forwarding Cloudflare Email Routing new (2)
Build & Framework
Framework React
Meta-framework Next.js (4)
UI library Lucide Icons
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Umami new
SEO Google Search Console new
Waffo new
Other
Directory Product Hunt new

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 2 Aug 2026 to 31 Oct 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
25 days
Registered Jul 2026 · Name.com, 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 Not published. Receivers fall back to permissive defaults.
?
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 (1)

Cookies (1)
NameLifetimeDetected as
__cf_bm < 1h Cloudflare

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?

273 ms Server response
55% Faster than peers
368 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
440 KB Page weight
6 KB Image weight
3 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

3 images: 2 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
Placeholder branding +10
AI onboarding signals +5
AI writing signals +5
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

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 (15 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).
96% unique

Security Headers (1/6)

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

Build

Code splitting
17 JS files
1 CSS files
3 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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