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Grid Words

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Added July 20, 2026 · Last analysed July 20, 2026 · via Hacker News · 55% unique tagline

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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 July 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Grid Words is early-stage. Worth fixing first: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and no robots.txt or sitemap.

Launched on Hacker News on July 20, 2026. The site is hosted on Vercel, with a domain registered 4 weeks before launch. We've detected 5 technologies on this site, covering analytics, developer tools, DNS providers, and hosting. The stack includes GoatCounter, HSTS, and Vercel.

It's running the same core stack as 3,077 other launches.

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1.7
StackScope Score
Poor
41/100 Launch Readiness
Partially ready
1/6 Security Headers
Poor
0/3 Legal
Missing
0/2 Crawl files
Missing
100/100 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 (5)

Infrastructure
DNS Vercel DNS
Hosting Vercel
Security HSTS
Build & Framework
Developer tools Vite
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics GoatCounter (2)

Infrastructure

Network
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US
AS16509 · US
DNS
Vercel 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 12 Jul 2026 to 10 Oct 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
1 month
Registered Jun 2026 · NameCheap, 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 (partial) missing meta description
✓ Responsive viewport meta tag
✓ Favicon present
- Open Graph tags (title, image, description)
- Canonical URL declared
- Twitter card meta tags
- Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)

Performance How?

219 ms Server response
68% Faster than peers
116 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
56 KB Page 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.

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 not detected
? Terms of Service not detected
? Analytics present, but it set no tracking cookies on our visit (it may be opt-in-gated).
Detection works best on English language sites.

Security Headers (1/6)

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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
1 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

App Manifest

display: standalone 2 icons
theme #ffffff
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