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Direction

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United States Estimated origin: United States

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

Direction is missing several launch fundamentals. What needs work: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and no robots.txt or sitemap.

Launched on Hacker News on April 10, 2026. The site is served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered 2 weeks before launch. Our crawler found 5 technologies on this site, covering CDN, DNS providers, business email, and web fonts. The stack includes Apache, Cloudflare, and Google Fonts.

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Vibe Score 70 · Many 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
CDN Cloudflare
DNS NearlyFreeSpeech.NET
Server Apache (2)
Email
Business email Proton Mail (3)
Build & Framework
Font Google Fonts

Infrastructure

Network
AS40630 · US
DNS
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET
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 22 Mar 2026 to 20 Jun 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
4 months
Registered Mar 2026 · PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com

Email Security

SPF ~all Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
DKIM Detected via known email provider
DMARC p=quarantine 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.

Readiness Breakdown How?

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

Vibe Score Breakdown How?

SignalPoints
AI onboarding signals +5
AI writing signals +5
AI code-structure signals +5
Recognised AI builder signature +30
AI CSS signals +15

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
/tos.html

Security Headers (0/6)

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

Performance

307ms response time
Faster than 49% of sites
1 third-party domains loaded

Build

1 JS files
1 CSS files
1 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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