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MailDog

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Added July 2, 2026 · Last analysed July 2, 2026 · via · 50% 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 2 July 2026; the live site may have changed since.

MailDog looks production-ready overall, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and clean crawl signals. Visible gaps: missing several security headers, tracking cookies set before any opt-in, and incomplete email security.

Launched on Product Hunt on July 2, 2026. The site is hosted on Contabo Asia Private Limited in Germany. We've detected 10 technologies on this site, covering analytics, auth, CSS frameworks, and DNS providers. The stack includes Auth.js, Next.js, and React.

It's on one of the most common stacks we track, shared by 3,249 launches.

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Vibe Score 25 · Some 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 (10)

Infrastructure
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Server nginx
Build & Framework
Auth Auth.js (2)
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Framework React
Meta-framework Next.js (5)
UI library Lucide Icons
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Google Analytics (4)
SEO Google Search Console
Tag management Google Tag Manager (4)

Infrastructure

DNS
Cloudflare DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
Green hosting
Not green hosted
No green-energy record. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
SSL Certificate
Let's Encrypt
Valid 11 Jun 2026 to 9 Sep 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.

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 (5)

Cookies (4)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_ga_8D672BSZ6M 1y Google Analytics
__Host-next-auth.csrf-token session Auth.js
__Secure-next-auth.callback-url session Auth.js
Local storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
nextauth.message 74 B Auth.js

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)
Meta description is 242 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?

617 ms Server response
26% Faster than peers
1276 ms Largest contentful paint
0.02 Cumulative layout shift
1.3 MB Page weight
2 KB Image weight
2 Third-party domains
1 Console errors
1 Failed requests

4 images: 2 without width/height, 2 missing alt text

Broken first-party requests (1), worth fixing
  • 404 /api/public-sandbox/me

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 copy signals +5
AI onboarding signals +5
AI palette signals +5
AI writing 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

robots.txt
sitemap.xml (250 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy
Terms of Service
/terms
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.
66% unique

Security Headers (0/6)

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

Build

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

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