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Public Desktop

Buy a permanent $10 icon location on the internet's public computer, or bid to control its public song.

Added August 28, 2026 · Last analysed August 28, 2026 · via Hacker News

StackScope records what new websites are built with, the week they launch. Most we find ourselves, by watching public internet infrastructure for brand-new sites; the rest come from Product Hunt, Hacker News and PeerPush. We crawled this one for its tech stack and scored it for launch readiness: DNS, security headers, SEO basics. This page is what we saw on 28 August 2026; the live site may have changed since.

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Public Desktop scores highly overall, with complete legal pages, a complete set of security headers, and a thorough launch checklist. Main gaps: incomplete email security.

Launched on Hacker News on August 28, 2026. The site is served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered the day of launch. Our crawler found 12 technologies on this site, covering analytics, CDN, DNS providers, and business email. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Caddy.

It's also on one of the most common stacks we track, shared by 1,219 launches and more locked down than the typical Hacker News launch.

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10.0
StackScope Score
Excellent
100/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
3/3 Legal
Complete
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
Vibe Score 20 · 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 (12)

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Security HSTS
Server Caddy
Email
Business email Spaceship Mail (2)
Build & Framework
Framework React
JavaScript library Zod
Meta-framework Next.js (3)
Video YouTube
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Cloudflare Web Analytics
Datafast (3)
Commerce & Payments
Payments Stripe

Infrastructure

Network
AS13335 · US
DNS
Cloudflare DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
Green hosting
Green hosted
Host runs on renewable energy. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
SSL Certificate
Google Trust Services
Valid 27 Aug 2026 to 25 Nov 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
1 day
Registered Aug 2026 · Spaceship, Inc.

Email Security

SPF ~all Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
?
DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
DMARC Not published. Receivers fall back to permissive defaults.
?
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 (3)

Local storage (2)
KeySizeDetected as
publicdesktop-presence-id 36 B -
publicdesktop-welcome-v1 5 B -
Session storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
publicdesktop-desktop-viewed-v1 1 B -

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?

829 ms Server response
15% Faster than peers
2960 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
1.5 MB Page weight
1.1 MB Image weight
3 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

10 images: 8 oversized, 8 without width/height, 9 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
Placeholder branding +10
AI palette signals +5
AI writing 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

Blocks AI crawlers
llms.txt published
9 AI bots blocked in robots.txt
ai-train = no
search = yes
? ai-input (not declared)
? None advertised

Well-Known Files

robots.txt
sitemap.xml (4 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy
Terms of Service
/terms
? Analytics present, but it set no tracking cookies on our visit (it may be opt-in-gated).
90% unique

Security Headers (6/6)

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

Build

Code splitting
10 JS files
1 CSS files
3 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

App Manifest

publicdesktop.lol
display: standalone 1 icon
theme #0b56c3
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