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Added August 18, 2026 · Last analysed August 18, 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 18 August 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Excelsior is partway there, with well-configured email security, fast page loads, and clean crawl signals. Main gaps: missing several security headers and incomplete legal pages.

Launched on Hacker News on August 18, 2026. The site is hosted on Neocities. The crawl picked up 2 technologies on this site, covering hosting and security. The stack includes HSTS and Neocities.

For context, it's one of only 11 launches we've crawled running Neocities.

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Vibe Score 3 · 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 (2)

Infrastructure
Hosting Neocities
Security HSTS

Infrastructure

Network
AS395409 · US
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 31 Jul 2026 to 29 Oct 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.

Email Security

SPF -all (via apex neocities.org) Strict (-all). Strong.
DKIM (via apex neocities.org) Detected on apex neocities.org
DMARC p=reject (via apex neocities.org) Reject (strict). Strong.
?
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)

Local storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
EXCELSIOR_playedBefore 3 B -

Readiness Breakdown How?

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

Performance How?

75 ms Server response
94% Faster than peers
828 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
76 KB Page weight
66 KB Image weight
1 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

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 writing signals +3

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 (5 URLs)
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 (2/6)

Permissions-Policy experimental (check browser support)
X-XSS-Protection deprecated (use Content-Security-Policy)

Build

2 JS files
1 CSS files
1 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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