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Paid or Played?

A tiny calculator for artists checking whether the label math pays them or plays them.

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Added June 1, 2026 · Last analysed June 1, 2026 · via Hacker News

StackScope records what new websites are built with, the week they launch. Most we find ourselves, by watching public internet infrastructure for brand-new sites; the rest come from Product Hunt, Hacker News and PeerPush. We crawled this one for its tech stack and scored it for launch readiness: DNS, security headers, SEO basics. This page is what we saw on 1 June 2026; the live site may have changed since.

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Paid or Played? has the basics covered well, with complete legal pages, a complete set of security headers, and a thorough launch checklist. Main gaps: no robots.txt or sitemap and no email security records.

Launched on Hacker News on June 1, 2026. The site is hosted on Vercel. Our crawler found 7 technologies on this site, covering CSS frameworks, frameworks, hosting, and meta-frameworks. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS.

It's also on one of the most common stacks we track, shared by 14,964 launches and more locked down than the typical Hacker News launch.

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7.5
StackScope Score
Good
88/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
3/3 Legal
Complete
0/2 Crawl files
Missing
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 (7)

Infrastructure
Hosting Vercel
Security HSTS
Build & Framework
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Framework React
Meta-framework Next.js
UI library shadcn/ui
Analytics & Marketing
SEO Google Search Console

Infrastructure

Network
AS16509 · US
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
Google Trust Services
Valid 28 Apr 2026 to 27 Jul 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.

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
Responsive viewport meta tag
Favicon present
Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)
- Canonical URL declared

Vibe Score Breakdown How?

SignalPoints
AI CSS signals +10
AI palette 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

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
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy
Terms of Service
/terms
90% unique

Security Headers (6/6)

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

Performance

345ms response time
Faster than 48% of sites

Build

Code splitting
11 JS files
1 CSS files
0 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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