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Mercek

Mercek is a desktop app for Amazon ECS. It uses your existing AWS credentials, works across all your accounts and regions, and never sends anything to a server.

www.mercek.dev · Added June 5, 2026 · Last analysed June 5, 2026 · via Hacker News · 67% 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 5 June 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Mercek is partway there, with a thorough launch checklist and fast page loads. What needs work: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and no sitemap.

Launched on Hacker News on June 4, 2026. The site is hosted on Amazon.com in the United States, with a domain registered 2 days before launch. The crawl picked up 4 technologies on this site, covering CSS frameworks, DNS providers, hosting, and security. The stack includes Tailwind CSS, Cloudflare DNS, and HSTS.

For context, it's running the same core stack as 244 other launches.

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Vibe Score 8 · Few AI signals
Informational pattern-match signal. Does not feed the StackScope Score. See which fingerprints fired →

Tech Stack (4)

Infrastructure
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Hosting Vercel
Security HSTS
Build & Framework
CSS framework Tailwind CSS

Infrastructure

Network
AS16509 · US
DNS
Cloudflare DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
SSL Certificate
Let's Encrypt
Valid 3 Jun 2026 to 1 Sep 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
2 days
Registered Jun 2026 · CloudFlare, Inc.

Email Security

SPF Not published. Your domain can be spoofed in phishing emails.
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DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
DMARC Not published. Receivers fall back to permissive defaults.
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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 (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?

101 ms Server response
93% Faster than peers
256 ms Largest contentful paint
0.06 Cumulative layout shift
621 KB Page weight
604 KB Image weight
1 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

8 images: 8 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

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

sitemap.xml
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
? Privacy Policy not detected
? Terms of Service not detected
Detection works best on English language sites.

Security Headers (1/6)

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

Build

HTML minified
CSS minified
JS minified
0 JS files
1 CSS files
1 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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