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Calorie API

Food calorie API for developers: REST search, barcode lookup, macros per 100g, and autocomplete across our food database API. Free tier for nutrition apps.

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United Kingdom Estimated origin: United Kingdom

Added September 1, 2026 · Last analysed September 1, 2026 · via

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 1 September 2026; the live site may have changed since.

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Calorie API scores highly overall, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and well-configured email security. Main gaps: missing Permissions-Policy and Strict-Transport-Security and tracking cookies set before any opt-in.

Launched on Product Hunt on September 1, 2026. The site is hosted on Heroku and served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered 11 months before launch. We've detected 13 technologies on this site, covering ui library, analytics, CDN, and CSS frameworks. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS.

It's one of just 15 launches we've crawled on this exact stack and more locked down than the typical Product Hunt launch.

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9.1
StackScope Score
Excellent
100/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
3/3* Legal
Complete*
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
Vibe Score 28 · Some 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 (13)

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Hosting Heroku
Protocol HTTP/3
Email
Transactional email Mailgun (2)
Build & Framework
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Framework React
Meta-framework Next.js (5)
UI library Lucide Icons
shadcn/ui
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Google Analytics (4)
SEO Google Search Console
Tag management Google Tag Manager (2)

Infrastructure

Network
AS13335 · US
DNS
Cloudflare DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Enabled
DNSKEY records published. DNS responses signed.
Green hosting
Green hosted
Host runs on renewable energy. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
SSL Certificate
Let's Encrypt
Valid 19 Jul 2026 to 17 Oct 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
11 months
Registered Sep 2025 · GoDaddy.com, LLC

Email Security

SPF ~all Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
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DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
DMARC p=quarantine Quarantine (moderate)
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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 (2)

Cookies (2)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_ga_R0Y4S4NLKN 1y Google Analytics

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?

667 ms Server response
21% Faster than peers
1380 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
558 KB Page weight
55 KB Image weight
2 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

3 images: 3 without width/height

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
AI copy signals +5
AI palette signals +5
AI writing signals +3
AI stack signals +10
Round-number metric claim +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

Welcomes AI crawlers
llms.txt published
No AI bots blocked in robots.txt
ai-train = no
search = yes
ai-input = yes
api-catalog
service-desc
service-doc
sitemap

Well-Known Files

robots.txt
sitemap.xml (135 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy
Terms of Service
/terms
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.
84% unique

Security Headers (4/6)

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

Build

Code splitting
17 JS files
0 CSS files
2 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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