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The SkillForge

This launch may no longer be active. Its site did not respond when we last checked on August 21, 2026.

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Added May 5, 2026 · Last analysed May 5, 2026 · via Hacker News

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The SkillForge ships with the launch fundamentals in place, with complete legal pages and clean crawl signals. What needs work: no Permissions-Policy and incomplete email security.

Launched on Hacker News on May 5, 2026. The site is hosted on Railway, with a domain registered 6 days before launch. We've detected 10 technologies on this site, covering baas, CSS frameworks, developer tools, and DNS providers. The stack includes Tailwind CSS, Google Fonts, and Gravatar.

It's running the same core stack as 345 other launches and tighter on security headers than most Hacker News launches.

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8.9
StackScope Score
Excellent
78/100 Launch Readiness
Well prepared
3/3 Legal
Complete
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
Vibe Score 5 · 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 (10) · Indie stack

Infrastructure
DNS Namecheap DNS
Hosting Railway (2)
Security HSTS (2)
Email
Business email PrivateEmail (2)
Transactional email Resend
Build & Framework
BaaS Supabase
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Developer tools Vite
Font Google Fonts
Analytics & Marketing
Social Gravatar

Infrastructure

Network
AS400940 · US
DNS
Namecheap DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Enabled
DNSKEY records published. DNS responses signed.
Green hosting
Not green hosted
No green-energy record. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
SSL Certificate
Let's Encrypt
Valid 29 Apr 2026 to 28 Jul 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
4 months
Registered Apr 2026 · NameCheap, Inc.

Email Security

SPF ~all Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
DKIM Detected via known email provider
DMARC p=none None (p=none). Monitoring only.
?
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 (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) (partial) missing og:image
Twitter card meta tags
Responsive viewport meta tag
Favicon present
Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)
Page title is 63 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 60 characters of the title in search results; aim for 50–60 to keep the whole thing visible.
Meta description is 185 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 155–160 characters of the description in desktop search results (less on mobile); anything past that won't appear.
- Canonical URL declared

Vibe Score Breakdown How?

SignalPoints
AI palette signals +5

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 (14 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy
Terms of Service
/terms
74% unique

Security Headers (5/6)

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

Performance

399ms response time
Faster than 43% of sites
2 third-party domains loaded

Build

1 JS files
2 CSS files
2 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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