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QWERTY MIDI

Show HN: QWERTY MIDI – Isomorphic Layout MIDI Controller

Added August 7, 2026 · Last analysed August 7, 2026 · via Hacker News

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

QWERTY MIDI still has work before launch. Visible gaps: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and no sitemap.

Launched on Hacker News on August 7, 2026. The site is hosted on AWS S3 and served through AWS CloudFront. The crawl picked up 9 technologies on this site, covering analytics, CDN, cloud, and DNS providers. The stack includes Gatsby, Amazon Web Services, and AWS CloudFront.

For context, it's one of only 43 launches we've crawled running Gatsby.

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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 (9) · Scale-up stack

Infrastructure
CDN AWS CloudFront
Cloud Amazon Web Services
DNS AWS Route 53
Hosting AWS S3
Email
Business email Google Workspace
Build & Framework
Meta-framework Gatsby
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Google Analytics (5)
SEO Google Search Console
Tag management Google Tag Manager (2)

Infrastructure

Network
AS16509 · US
DNS
AWS Route 53
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
Amazon
Valid 25 Nov 2025 to 23 Dec 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.

Email Security

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.
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 (5)

Cookies (4)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_gat < 1h Google Analytics
_ga_RLTXVYQJB4 1y Google Analytics
_gid 23h Google Analytics
Session storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
@@scroll|/blog/07-2026/querymidi/|initial 4 B -

Readiness Breakdown How?

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

Performance How?

378 ms Server response
44% Faster than peers
424 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
646 KB Page weight
59 KB Image weight
2 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

6 images: 2 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.

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
? 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
7 JS files
0 CSS files
2 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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