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

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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.

Indie Need is largely in shape, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and clean crawl signals. Worth fixing first: missing several security headers, tracking cookies set before any opt-in, and incomplete email security.

Launched on Product Hunt on August 14, 2026. The site is hosted on Vercel, with a domain registered 3 days before launch. The crawl picked up 13 technologies on this site, covering analytics, CSS frameworks, developer tools, and DNS providers. The stack includes Tailwind CSS, TanStack Start, and Brevo.

For context, it's running the same core stack as 144 other launches.

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7.6
StackScope Score
Good
100/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
1/6 Security Headers
Poor
3/3* Legal
Complete*
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
89/100 Performance
Fast
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 (13)

Infrastructure
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Hosting Vercel
Security HSTS
Email
Business email Spaceship Mail (2)
Email marketing Brevo
Build & Framework
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Developer tools Vite
JavaScript library TanStack Router
Meta-framework TanStack Start
UI library Lucide Icons
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Google Analytics (4)
SEO Google Search Console
Tag management Google Tag Manager (2)

Infrastructure

Network
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US
AS16509 · US
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 Aug 2026 to 9 Nov 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
3 days
Registered Aug 2026 · Spaceship, Inc.

Email Security

✓
SPF ~all Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
?
DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
✗
DMARC Not published. Receivers fall back to permissive defaults.
?
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 (2)

Cookies (2)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_ga_CHP0Q2FD3F 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)

Performance How?

2293 ms Server response
2% Faster than peers
2016 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
656 KB Page weight
217 KB Image weight
3 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

⚠ 8 images: 8 oversized, 1 without width/height

Indicative grade from a single automated render, not a substitute for Lighthouse or field data, and not part of the StackScope score.

AI Stance

Welcomes AI crawlers
✓ llms.txt published
✓ No AI bots blocked in robots.txt
Content-Signal
? No directive declared
Link headers
? None advertised

Well-Known Files

✓ robots.txt
✓ sitemap.xml (88 URLs)
✗ security.txt
✓ llms.txt
✗ ads.txt
✗ humans.txt

Legal

✓ Privacy Policy
/legal/privacy
✓ Terms of Service
/legal/terms
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.
92% unique
Mentions:
Do Not Sell

Security Headers (1/6)

✗
Referrer-Policy
✗
X-Frame-Options
✗
Permissions-Policy experimental (check browser support)
✗
X-Content-Type-Options
✗
Content-Security-Policy
✓
Strict-Transport-Security
–
X-XSS-Protection deprecated (use Content-Security-Policy)

Build

2 JS files
1 CSS files
3 Third-party domains
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