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Added July 13, 2026 · Last analysed July 13, 2026 · via Hacker News · 67% unique tagline

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

ChessLvl scores highly overall, with complete legal pages, a complete set of security headers, and a thorough launch checklist. Main gaps: tracking cookies set before any opt-in and no email security records.

Launched on Hacker News on July 13, 2026. The site is hosted on Vercel and served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered 10 weeks before launch. The crawl picked up 13 technologies on this site, covering security, ai api, analytics, and baas. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Anthropic.

For context, it's on one of the most common stacks we track, shared by 2,161 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 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 (13) · Indie stack

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare
DNS DigiCert DNS
Hosting Vercel
Security Cloudflare Bot Management
HSTS
Build & Framework
BaaS Supabase
Font Google Fonts
Framework React
Meta-framework Next.js (5)
UI library Lucide Icons
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Google Analytics (5)
Tag management Google Tag Manager (2)
AI & Emerging
AI API Anthropic

Infrastructure

Network
AS16509 · US
DNS
DigiCert DNS
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 6 Jul 2026 to 4 Oct 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
2 months
Registered May 2026 · GoDaddy.com, LLC

Email Security

SPF Not published. Your domain can be spoofed in phishing emails.
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DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
DMARC Not published. Receivers fall back to permissive defaults.
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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 (4)

Cookies (3)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_ga_ZYTPB3DGLP 1y Google Analytics
__cf_bm < 1h Cloudflare
Session storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
chesslvl_session_id 36 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)
Meta description is 180 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.

Performance How?

259 ms Server response
62% Faster than peers
760 ms Largest contentful paint
0.08 Cumulative layout shift
1.1 MB Page weight
316 KB Image weight
5 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

1 images: 1 oversized, 1 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 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

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 (145 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.
96% unique

Security Headers (6/6)

Permissions-Policy experimental (check browser support)
Content-Security-Policy ⚠ CSP violation detected: your policy is blocking 1 of your own resource
X-XSS-Protection deprecated (use Content-Security-Policy)

Build

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

Brand Colours

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