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Karpenter Provider for Hetzner

An open-source Karpenter provider for Hetzner Cloud: cost-optimal Kubernetes node autoscaling that launches the cheapest server type for the pending pods.

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Estonia Estimated origin: Estonia

Added June 17, 2026 · Last analysed June 17, 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 17 June 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Every technology below links to its own page: which other new sites launched with it. Vendors and agencies watch those pages with Stackdar and hear about new adopters the week they ship, from £15 a month.

Karpenter Provider for Hetzner scores highly overall, with complete legal pages, a complete set of security headers, and a thorough launch checklist. Main gaps: no sitemap and incomplete email security.

Launched on Hacker News on June 16, 2026. The site is hosted on Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany, with a domain registered 12 weeks before launch. Our crawler found 6 technologies on this site, covering analytics, DNS providers, business email, and transactional email. The stack includes Envoy, Hetzner DNS, and HSTS.

It's also one of only 38 launches we've crawled running Scaleway and more locked down than the typical Hacker News launch.

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8.9
StackScope Score
Excellent
100/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
3/3 Legal
Complete
1/2 Crawl files
Partial
Vibe Score 10 · 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 (6)

Infrastructure
DNS Hetzner DNS
Security HSTS
Server Envoy
Email
Business email Mailbox.org (2)
Transactional email Scaleway (2)
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Plausible

Infrastructure

Network
AS24940 · DE
DNS
Hetzner DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
Green hosting
Green hosted
Host runs on renewable energy. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
SSL Certificate
Let's Encrypt
Valid 26 May 2026 to 24 Aug 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
5 months
Registered Mar 2026 · NameCheap, Inc.

Email Security

SPF ~all Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
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DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
DMARC p=none None (p=none). Monitoring only.
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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)
Page title is 64 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 60 characters of the title in search results; aim for 50–60 to keep the whole thing visible.

Performance How?

300 ms Server response
48% Faster than peers
268 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
305 KB Page weight
2 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

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 layout 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

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
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy
Terms of Service
/terms
? Analytics present, but it set no tracking cookies on our visit (it may be opt-in-gated).
26% unique

Security Headers (6/6)

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

Build

Code splitting
7 JS files
3 CSS files
2 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

App Manifest

Paperclip.inc
display: standalone 3 icons
theme #f7f7f4
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