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Hawser

Licence keys, notarised auto-updating DMGs from one command, and 35 checks that stop the release which would have failed silently on a Mac you don't own.

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Added August 10, 2026 · Last analysed August 10, 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 10 August 2026; the live site may have changed since.

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

Launched on Hacker News on August 10, 2026. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages and served through Fastly, with a domain registered 1 week before launch. We've detected 3 technologies on this site, covering CDN, DNS providers, and hosting. The stack includes Cloudflare DNS, Fastly, and GitHub Pages.

It's on one of the most common stacks we track, shared by 2,207 launches.

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Vibe Score 10 · Few 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 (3)

Infrastructure
CDN Fastly
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Hosting GitHub Pages

Infrastructure

Network
AS54113 · 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 28 Jul 2026 to 26 Oct 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
13 days
Registered Jul 2026 · Cloudflare, Inc.

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 (0)

This site uses no client-side storage we could detect on page load.

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?

217 ms Server response
63% Faster than peers
328 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
61 KB Page weight
46 KB Image weight
1 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

1 images: 1 oversized, 1 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.

Vibe Score Breakdown How?

SignalPoints
AI CSS signals +10

This score is based on structural patterns and is not definitive. Many legitimate sites may trigger signals, and AI-built sites may go undetected. It should be treated as an indicator, not a verdict.

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
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

0 JS files
0 CSS files
1 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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