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Contraband

CONTRABAND is a VR screening room for independent films, AI cinema, and documentaries. A shared virtual space where films screen at a set time, for a real audience.

contraband.watch · Added June 25, 2026 · Last analysed June 25, 2026 · via Hacker News · 75% 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 25 June 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Contraband is partway there, with a thorough launch checklist and clean crawl signals. Visible gaps: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and tracking cookies set before any opt-in.

Launched on Hacker News on June 25, 2026. The site is hosted on Hostinger International Limited in Lithuania, with a domain registered the day of launch. The crawl picked up 9 technologies on this site, covering analytics, DNS providers, email forwarding, and web fonts. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Google Analytics.

For context, it's on one of the most common stacks we track, shared by 553 launches.

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Vibe Score 25 · Some AI signals
Informational pattern-match signal. Does not feed the StackScope Score. See which fingerprints fired →

Tech Stack (9)

Infrastructure
DNS Namecheap DNS
OS Ubuntu
Server nginx
Email
Email forwarding Namecheap Email Forwarding (2)
Build & Framework
Font Google Fonts
Framework React
Meta-framework Next.js (4)
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Google Analytics (5)
Tag management Google Tag Manager (2)

Infrastructure

DNS
Namecheap 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 25 Jun 2026 to 23 Sep 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
1 day
Registered Jun 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 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 (2)

Cookies (2)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_ga_6FNW62CPM2 1y Google Analytics

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 61 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 60 characters of the title in search results; aim for 50–60 to keep the whole thing visible.
Meta description is 164 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.

Performance How?

669 ms Server response
24% Faster than peers
1056 ms Largest contentful paint
0.01 Cumulative layout shift
1.1 MB Page weight
94 KB Image weight
4 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

1 images: 1 oversized, 1 without width/height, 1 missing alt text

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
Placeholder branding +10
AI writing signals +5
AI styling 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

sitemap.xml (6 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
? Privacy Policy not detected
? Terms of Service not detected
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.
Detection works best on English language sites.

Security Headers (0/6)

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

Build

Code splitting
11 JS files
2 CSS files
4 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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