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Watch Darkly

Horror films rated on fear, gore, atmosphere, intensity, and overall, so you always know what you're in for. Slashers, supernatural, cult favorites.

United States Estimated origin: United States

Added August 12, 2026 · Last analysed August 12, 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 12 August 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Watch Darkly ships with the launch fundamentals in place, with complete legal pages, a complete set of security headers, and a thorough launch checklist. Worth fixing first: tracking cookies set before any opt-in.

Launched on Product Hunt on August 12, 2026. The site is hosted on Vercel and served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered 3 months before launch. The crawl picked up 22 technologies on this site, covering analytics, transactional email, security, and auth. The stack includes Clerk, Next.js, and React.

For context, it's running the same core stack as 12,967 other launches and tighter on security headers than most Product Hunt launches.

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9.7
StackScope Score
Excellent
88/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
3/3* Legal
Complete*
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
Vibe Score 20 · 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 (22) · Indie stack

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Hosting Vercel
Security Cloudflare Bot Management
HSTS
Email
Email forwarding Cloudflare Email Routing (2)
Transactional email Resend (2)
SendGrid
Build & Framework
Auth Clerk (5)
Captcha Cloudflare Turnstile
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Data API The Movie Database
Developer tools Rspack
Framework React
Media Unsplash
Meta-framework Next.js (5)
Video YouTube
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Cloudflare Web Analytics (4)
PostHog (3)
Vercel Analytics medium
SEO Google Search Console
Business Tools
Error tracking Sentry (3)

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 18 Jul 2026 to 16 Oct 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
3 months
Registered Apr 2026 · Cloudflare, Inc.

Email Security

SPF -all Strict (-all). Strong.
DKIM Detected via known email provider
DMARC p=quarantine Quarantine (moderate)
?
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 (12)

Cookies (6)
NameLifetimeDetected as
ph_phc_wNxkg5Dr3NHpkDgBr3hnncn8o8GGmXKZNDTPJrYztkjq_posthog 12mo -
_cfuvid session Cloudflare
__cf_bm < 1h Cloudflare
__client 1y Clerk
__client_uat 1y -
__client_uat_XVCaOpUf 1y -
Local storage (3)
KeySizeDetected as
ph_phc_wNxkg5Dr3NHpkDgBr3hnncn8o8GGmXKZNDTPJrYztkjq_posthog 1.7 KB PostHog
wd_anon_id 36 B -
__clerk_environment 6.2 KB Clerk
Session storage (3)
KeySizeDetected as
ph_phc_wNxkg5Dr3NHpkDgBr3hnncn8o8GGmXKZNDTPJrYztkjq_posthog 443 B PostHog
ph_phc_wNxkg5Dr3NHpkDgBr3hnncn8o8GGmXKZNDTPJrYztkjq_primary_window_exists 4 B PostHog
ph_phc_wNxkg5Dr3NHpkDgBr3hnncn8o8GGmXKZNDTPJrYztkjq_window_id 38 B PostHog

Readiness Breakdown How?

Custom title and meta description
Open Graph tags (title, image, description)
Twitter card meta tags
Responsive viewport meta tag
Favicon present
Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)
- Canonical URL declared

Performance How?

408 ms Server response
39% Faster than peers
424 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
1.4 MB Page weight
360 KB Image weight
3 Third-party domains
1 Console errors
0 Failed requests

15 images: 15 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 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

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 (607 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy
Terms of Service
/terms
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.
92% unique

Security Headers (6/6)

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

Build

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

Brand Colours

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