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Folktale

Show HN: Hack Club Folktale: Learn Python, Make a Game, Get Free Stickers

Education
United States Estimated origin: United States

Added August 20, 2026 · Last analysed August 20, 2026 · via Hacker News

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

Folktale is early-stage. Visible gaps: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and no robots.txt or sitemap.

Launched on Hacker News on August 19, 2026. The site is served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered in 2001. We've detected 4 technologies on this site, covering analytics, CDN, and security. The stack includes Cloudflare, Cloudflare Bot Management, and Cloudflare Web Analytics.

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1.8
StackScope Score
Poor
23/100 Launch Readiness
Needs work
0/6 Security Headers
Poor
2/3 Legal
Partial
0/2 Crawl files
Missing
77/100 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 (4)

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare (2)
Security Cloudflare Bot Management
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Cloudflare Web Analytics (2)
Plausible (2)

Infrastructure

Network
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US
AS13335 · US
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
Green hosting
Green hosted
Host runs on renewable energy. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
SSL Certificate
Google Trust Services
Valid 17 Aug 2026 to 15 Nov 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
25.4 years
Registered Apr 2001 · Squarespace Domains II LLC

Email Security

✓
SPF ~all (via apex hackclub.com) Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
✓
DKIM (via apex hackclub.com) Detected on apex hackclub.com
✓
DMARC p=quarantine (via apex hackclub.com) Quarantine (moderate)
?
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 (1)

Cookies (1)
NameLifetimeDetected as
__cf_bm < 1h Cloudflare

Readiness Breakdown How?

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

Performance How?

47 ms Server response
99% Faster than peers
1300 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
2.3 MB Page weight
2.3 MB Image weight
3 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

⚠ 26 images: 21 oversized, 26 without width/height, 18 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
✓ security.txt
✗ llms.txt
✗ ads.txt
✗ humans.txt

Legal

✓ Privacy Policy
/privacy-and-terms
? Terms of Service not detected
? Analytics present, but it set no tracking cookies on our visit (it may be opt-in-gated).
94% unique
Mentions:
Cookies Data Controller DPO

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
3 Third-party domains

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