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Added August 11, 2026 · Last analysed August 11, 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 11 August 2026; the live site may have changed since.

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

Launched on Product Hunt on August 11, 2026. The site is served through AWS CloudFront, with a domain registered 2 weeks before launch. The crawl picked up 12 technologies on this site, covering cloud, directory, analytics, and CDN. The stack includes Tailwind CSS, Amazon SES, and Amazon Web Services.

For context, it's running the same core stack as 6,879 other launches.

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6.2
StackScope Score
Good
100/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
0/6 Security Headers
Poor
2/3 Legal
Partial
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
94/100 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 (12) · Scale-up stack

Email
Transactional email Amazon SES (2)
Build & Framework
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Developer tools Vite
JavaScript library React Router
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics PostHog (4)
SEO Google Search Console
Other
Directory Neeed
SitePatent (2)

Infrastructure

Network
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US
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 22 Jul 2026 to 4 Feb 2027
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
21 days
Registered Jul 2026 · Amazon Registrar, 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 (4)

Cookies (1)
NameLifetimeDetected as
ph_phc_mNQmMbeWqSHUhor9jyeu82tFgZDxwaGhjxQvScUVQGgR_posthog 1y -
Local storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
ph_phc_mNQmMbeWqSHUhor9jyeu82tFgZDxwaGhjxQvScUVQGgR_posthog 831 B PostHog
Session storage (2)
KeySizeDetected as
ph_phc_mNQmMbeWqSHUhor9jyeu82tFgZDxwaGhjxQvScUVQGgR_posthog 90 B PostHog
ph_phc_mNQmMbeWqSHUhor9jyeu82tFgZDxwaGhjxQvScUVQGgR_primary_window_exists 4 B PostHog

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?

836 ms Server response
15% Faster than peers
944 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
522 KB Page weight
9 KB Image weight
4 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

⚠ 5 images: 2 oversized, 3 without width/height, 1 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
Content-Signal
? No directive declared
Link headers
? None advertised

Well-Known Files

✓ robots.txt
✓ sitemap.xml (42 URLs)
✗ security.txt
✗ llms.txt
✗ ads.txt
✗ humans.txt

Legal

✓ Privacy Policy
/privacy
? Terms of Service not detected
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.
96% unique
Mentions:
Updated: August 8, 2026

Security Headers (0/6)

✗
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

3 JS files
1 CSS files
4 Third-party domains

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