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zenfl.pro · Added June 21, 2026 · Last analysed June 21, 2026 · via · 78% 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 21 June 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Upwork Shitshow has the basics covered well, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and clean crawl signals. What needs work: missing several security headers, tracking cookies set before any opt-in, and incomplete email security.

Launched on Product Hunt on June 21, 2026. The site is hosted on Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany. Our crawler found 19 technologies on this site, covering advertising, analytics, seo, and affiliate. The stack includes SvelteKit, Tailwind CSS, and Cloudflare.

Notably, it's one of 68 launches on this exact stack.

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Vibe Score 15 · Few AI signals
Informational pattern-match signal. Does not feed the StackScope Score. See which fingerprints fired →

Tech Stack (19)

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare
DNS GoDaddy DNS
Protocol HTTP/3
Security Cloudflare Bot Management
Email
Business email Google Workspace
Transactional email Resend
Build & Framework
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Meta-framework SvelteKit
Analytics & Marketing
Advertising Facebook Pixel (2)
Google Ads (3)
Reddit Ads (2)
X (Twitter) Ads (2)
Affiliate Tapfiliate
Analytics Google Analytics (3)
Yandex Metrica (4)
Marketing Facebook Domain Verification
SEO Google Search Console
LinkedIn (2)
Tag management Google Tag Manager (3)

Infrastructure

DNS
GoDaddy DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
SSL Certificate
Let's Encrypt
Valid 26 May 2026 to 24 Aug 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.

Email Security

SPF ~all Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
DKIM Detected via known email provider
DMARC p=none 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 (33)

Cookies (23)
NameLifetimeDetected as
bcookie 12mo LinkedIn
bh 1y -
guest_id 1y X (Twitter) Ads
guest_id_ads 1y X (Twitter) Ads
guest_id_marketing 1y X (Twitter) Ads
lidc 23h LinkedIn
li_gc 5mo LinkedIn
muc_ads 1y X (Twitter) Ads
personalization_id 1y X (Twitter) Ads
sync_cookie_csrf < 1h -
sync_cookie_csrf_secondary < 1h -
_fbp 2mo Facebook Pixel
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_ga_EZ08DPNRF2 1y Google Analytics
_ga_VZVH0K3QQT 1y Google Analytics
_gcl_au 2mo Google Ads
_rdt_uuid 2mo Reddit Ads
_twpid 1y X (Twitter) Ads
_ym_d 12mo Yandex Metrica
_ym_isad 20h Yandex Metrica
_ym_uid 12mo Yandex Metrica
_ym_visorc < 1h Yandex Metrica
__cf_bm < 1h Cloudflare
Local storage (9)
KeySizeDetected as
lastExternalReferrer 5 B -
lastExternalReferrerTime 13 B -
_gcl_ls 277 B Google Ads
_ym101579352:0_reqNum 1 B Yandex Metrica
_ym101579352_lsid 13 B Yandex Metrica
_ym_retryReqs 2 B Yandex Metrica
_ym_synced 16 B Yandex Metrica
_ym_uid 20 B Yandex Metrica
_ym_wv2rf:101579352:0 1 B Yandex Metrica
Session storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
__ym_tab_guid 36 B Yandex Metrica

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)

Performance How?

640 ms Server response
25% Faster than peers
1152 ms Largest contentful paint
0.54 Cumulative layout shift
1.0 MB Page weight
13 KB Image weight
12 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

8 images: 6 oversized, 6 without width/height, 2 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
AI writing signals +5
AI iconography 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

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
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics detected; tracking fires without visitor opt-in.
96% unique

Security Headers (0/6)

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

Build

Code splitting
10 JS files
2 CSS files
12 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

App Manifest

Zenfl
display: standalone 2 icons
theme #181a10
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