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Frequal

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United Kingdom Estimated origin: United Kingdom

Added May 3, 2026 · Last analysed May 3, 2026 · via Hacker News · 44% 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 3 May 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Frequal is missing several launch fundamentals. What needs work: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and no sitemap.

Launched on Hacker News on May 3, 2026. The site is hosted on Charter Communications Inc in the United States, with a domain registered in 2000. Our crawler found 3 technologies on this site, covering advertising, DNS providers, and ecommerce. The stack includes Salesforce Commerce Cloud, EthicalAds, and SiteProtect.

It's also a rare Salesforce Commerce Cloud sighting, just 3 in our data.

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2.6
StackScope Score
Poor
52/100 Launch Readiness
Partially ready
0/6 Security Headers
Poor
0/3 Legal
Missing
1/2 Crawl files
Partial
Vibe Score 0 · No 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 (3)

Infrastructure
DNS SiteProtect
Analytics & Marketing
Advertising EthicalAds
Commerce & Payments
Ecommerce Salesforce Commerce Cloud

Infrastructure

Network
TWC-20001-PACWEST - Charter Communications Inc, US
AS20001 · US
DNS
SiteProtect
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
SSL Certificate
Let's Encrypt
Valid 28 Feb 2026 to 29 May 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
25.6 years
Registered Dec 2000 · Tucows Domains Inc.

Email Security

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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.
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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?

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Custom title and meta description (partial) missing meta description
✓ Responsive viewport meta tag
✓ Favicon present
✓ Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)
- Open Graph tags (title, image, description)
- Canonical URL declared
- Twitter card meta tags

AI Stance

No AI stance declared
✗ 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
✗ security.txt
✗ llms.txt
✓ ads.txt
✗ humans.txt

Legal

? Privacy Policy not detected
? Terms of Service not detected
Detection works best on English language sites.

Security Headers (0/6)

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Referrer-Policy
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X-Frame-Options
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Permissions-Policy experimental (check browser support)
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X-Content-Type-Options
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Content-Security-Policy
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Strict-Transport-Security
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X-XSS-Protection deprecated (use Content-Security-Policy)

Performance

997ms response time
Faster than 11% of sites
2 third-party domains loaded

Build

3 JS files
1 CSS files
2 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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