Old Light

Old Light is a slow strategy game in a shared galaxy. Build a system, scout neighbours, send fleets, and return to see what changed while you were away.

Games

Estimated origin: Netherlands

Added July 6, 2026 · Last analysed July 6, 2026 · via · 62% unique tagline

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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 6 July 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Old Light is partway there, with a thorough launch checklist and clean crawl signals. Visible gaps: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and no email security records.

Launched on Product Hunt on July 6, 2026. The site is hosted on Railway. The crawl picked up 8 technologies on this site, covering analytics, backend framework, developer tools, and DNS providers. The stack includes Cloudflare DNS, Express, and Google Search Console.

For context, it's on one of the most common stacks we track, shared by 433 launches.

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5.9

StackScope Score

Fair

100/100 Launch Readiness

Launch ready

2/6 Security Headers

Weak

0/3 Legal

Missing

2/2 Crawl files

Complete

100/100 Performance

Fast

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 (8) · Indie stack

Infrastructure

DNS	Cloudflare DNS
Hosting	Railway

Transactional email	Resend

Build & Framework

Developer tools	Vite

Analytics & Marketing

Analytics	Simple Analytics (2)
SEO	Google Search Console

Business Tools

Error tracking	Sentry

Other

Backend framework	Express

Infrastructure

Network

RAILWAY - Railway, US

AS400940 · 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 7 Jun 2026 to 5 Sep 2026

Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.

Email Security

✗

SPF Not published. Your domain can be spoofed in phishing emails.

✓

DKIM Detected via known email provider

✗

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 (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)

Performance How?

225 ms Server response

67% Faster than peers

220 ms Largest contentful paint

0.00 Cumulative layout shift

507 KB Page weight

209 KB Image weight

4 Third-party domains

0 Console errors

0 Failed requests

⚠ 9 images: 9 oversized, 3 without width/height, 3 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?

Signal	Points
AI writing signals	+3
AI code-structure 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

Content-Signal

? No directive declared

Link headers

? None advertised

Well-Known Files

✓ robots.txt

✓ sitemap.xml (48 URLs)

✗ security.txt

✓ llms.txt

✗ ads.txt

✗ humans.txt

Legal

? Privacy Policy not detected

? Terms of Service not detected

? Analytics present, but it set no tracking cookies on our visit (it may be opt-in-gated).

Detection works best on English language sites.

Security Headers (2/6)

✗

Referrer-Policy

✓

X-Frame-Options

✗

Permissions-Policy experimental (check browser support)

✗

X-Content-Type-Options

✓

Content-Security-Policy

✗

Strict-Transport-Security

–

X-XSS-Protection deprecated (use Content-Security-Policy)

Build

2 JS files

0 CSS files

4 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

App Manifest

Old Light

display: standalone 2 icons

theme #05070d

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