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PalExplorer

Free P2P encrypted file sharing with ChaCha20 encryption. No cloud, no middleman, no size limits.

Productivity

Added July 12, 2026 · Last analysed July 12, 2026 · via Hacker News

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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 12 July 2026; the live site may have changed since.

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PalExplorer scores highly overall, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and well-configured email security. Visible gaps: no Permissions-Policy.

Launched on Hacker News on July 12, 2026. The site is served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered 4 months before launch. The crawl picked up 15 technologies on this site, covering analytics, CDN, CSS frameworks, and developer tools. The stack includes Tailwind CSS, Brevo, and Cloudflare.

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9.2
StackScope Score
Excellent
88/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
5/6 Security Headers
Strong
3/3 Legal
Complete
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
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 (15)

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Protocol HTTP/3
Security HSTS
Email
Email forwarding Cloudflare Email Routing (2)
Email marketing Brevo
Transactional email Resend
Build & Framework
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Developer tools Vite
Font Google Fonts
JavaScript library React Router
UI library Lucide Icons
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Google Analytics
Tag management Google Tag Manager
Business Tools
SaaS Zoho

Infrastructure

Network
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US
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
Let's Encrypt
Valid 9 Jul 2026 to 7 Oct 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
6 months
Registered Feb 2026 · GoDaddy.com, LLC

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.

Storage (2)

Cookies (1)
NameLifetimeDetected as
__Host-csrf_token 7d -
Local storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
pal-theme 5 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
✓ Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)
- Favicon present

Performance How?

151 ms Server response
69% Faster than peers
448 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
189 KB Page weight
3 Third-party domains
2 Console errors
2 Failed requests
Broken first-party requests (2), worth fixing
  • 401 /api/billing/status
  • 401 /api/auth/refresh

Indicative grade from a single automated render, not a substitute for Lighthouse or field data, and not part of the StackScope score.

AI Stance

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

Well-Known Files

✓ robots.txt
✓ sitemap.xml (10 URLs)
✗ security.txt
✗ llms.txt
✗ ads.txt
✗ humans.txt

Legal

✓ 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 (5/6)

✓
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

1 JS files
2 CSS files
3 Third-party domains

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