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The Long Swell

Where the climate is abnormal this week, measured against each place's own record. 98% chance of a 1997/2015-magnitude El Niño peak.

Added August 14, 2026 · Last analysed August 14, 2026 · via

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 14 August 2026; the live site may have changed since.

The Long Swell is early-stage. What needs work: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and no robots.txt or sitemap.

Launched on Product Hunt on August 14, 2026. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages and served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered 2 weeks before launch. We've detected 8 technologies on this site, covering CDN, analytics, DNS providers, and email forwarding. The stack includes Cloudflare, Cloudflare Bot Management, and Fastly.

It's running the same core stack as 2,282 other launches.

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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 (8)

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare
Fastly
DNS Porkbun DNS (2)
Hosting GitHub Pages
Security Cloudflare Bot Management
Email
Email forwarding Porkbun Email Forwarding
Email marketing Kit (ConvertKit)
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Plausible (2)

Infrastructure

Network
AS54113 · US
DNS
Porkbun 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 26 Jul 2026 to 24 Oct 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
20 days
Registered Jul 2026 · Porkbun LLC

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 (2)

Cookies (1)
NameLifetimeDetected as
__cf_bm < 1h Cloudflare
Local storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
ckid 36 B -

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 70 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?

143 ms Server response
82% Faster than peers
264 ms Largest contentful paint
0.03 Cumulative layout shift
130 KB Page weight
20 KB Image weight
3 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.

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
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
? Privacy Policy not detected
? Terms of Service not detected
? Analytics present, but it set no tracking cookies on our visit (it may be opt-in-gated).
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

2 JS files
0 CSS files
3 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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