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chokepoints.ai

The AI compute stack, mapped. One company per issue: what it controls, what it depends on, and where the investment risk sits. From expert calls, broker research and public filings. Click to read Chokepoints, by Chokepoints.ai, a Substack publication. Launched 21 days ago.

Added July 3, 2026 · Last analysed July 3, 2026 · via · 60% 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 3 July 2026; the live site may have changed since.

chokepoints.ai ships with the launch fundamentals in place, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and clean crawl signals. Worth fixing first: missing several security headers and incomplete email security.

Launched on Product Hunt on July 3, 2026. The site is served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered 3 weeks before launch. We've detected 14 technologies on this site, covering security, ui library, analytics, and backend framework. The stack includes Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, and Cloudflare Bot Management.

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8.2
StackScope Score
Excellent
88/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
3/3 Legal
Complete
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
Vibe Score 15 · 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 (14) · Scale-up stack

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare (2)
Cloud Amazon Web Services
Protocol HTTP/3
Security Cloudflare Bot Management
HSTS
Build & Framework
Font Google Fonts
JavaScript library React Router
UI library Lucide Icons
shadcn/ui
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Cloudflare Web Analytics (2)
Publishing Substack (8)
SEO Norton Safe Web
Business Tools
Error tracking Sentry (2)
Other
Backend framework Express

Infrastructure

Network
AS13335 · US
DNSSEC
Enabled
DNSKEY records published. DNS responses signed.
Green hosting
Green hosted
Host runs on renewable energy. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
Domain Age
24 days
Registered Jun 2026 · Squarespace Domains LLC

Email Security

SPF ~all (via apex chokepoints.ai) Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
DKIM (via apex chokepoints.ai) Detected on apex chokepoints.ai
DMARC p=none (via apex chokepoints.ai) None (p=none). Monitoring only.
?
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 (8)
NameLifetimeDetected as
ab_experiment_sampled 1y Substack
AWSALBTG 6d Amazon Web Services
AWSALBTGCORS 6d -
cf_clearance 12mo Cloudflare
cookie_storage_key 2mo -
disable_experiments session Substack
disable_html_pixels session Substack
__cf_bm < 1h Cloudflare
Local storage (2)
KeySizeDetected as
substack_ref 2 B Substack
substack_ref_url 38 B Substack
Session storage (2)
KeySizeDetected as
substack_ref 2 B Substack
substack_ref_url 38 B Substack

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
Meta description is 273 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 155–160 characters of the description in desktop search results (less on mobile); anything past that won't appear.
- Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)

Performance How?

676 ms Server response
23% Faster than peers
964 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
3.2 MB Page weight
197 KB Image weight
6 Third-party domains
3 Console errors
1 Failed requests

7 images: 4 oversized, 3 without width/height, 4 missing alt text

Broken first-party requests (1), worth fixing
  • 401 /api/v1/reporting/flows

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 CSS signals +10
AI palette 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

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 (6 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy
Terms of Service
/tos
? Analytics present, but it set no tracking cookies on our visit (it may be opt-in-gated).

Security Headers (3/6)

X-Frame-Options via CSP frame-ancestors
Permissions-Policy experimental (check browser support)
X-XSS-Protection deprecated (use Content-Security-Policy)

Build

Code splitting
202 JS files
26 CSS files
6 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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