Coloneltoad
Authors Note: This is the first of many articles I will write detailing the creation of Metis; a trading engine I developed in hopes of answering this question: “Can understanding how energy flows allow us to better understand the many influencers that make up the trade price?”
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 4 June 2026; the live site may have changed since.
Coloneltoad has the basics covered well, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and well-configured email security. Visible gaps: missing several security headers, no robots.txt or sitemap, and analytics without a consent banner.
Launched on Hacker News on June 4, 2026. The site is hosted on Cloudflare in the United States, with a domain registered in 2010. Our crawler found 12 technologies on this site, covering security, analytics, CDN, and cloud. The stack includes Express, Amazon Web Services, and Cloudflare.
Notably, it's on one of the most common stacks we track, shared by 117 launches.
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Tech Stack (12) · Scale-up stack
| CDN |
Cloudflare
|
| Cloud |
Amazon Web Services
|
| Protocol | HTTP/3 |
| Security |
Cloudflare Bot Management
|
| HSTS |
| Font |
Google Fonts
|
| Framework |
Express
|
| UI library |
shadcn/ui
|
| Analytics |
Segment
|
| Publishing | Substack |
| SEO |
Norton Safe Web
|
| Error tracking |
Sentry
|
Infrastructure
Email Security
Storage (15)
| Name | Lifetime | Detected as |
|---|---|---|
| ab_experiment_sampled | 1y | Substack |
| ajs_anonymous_id | 12mo | Segment |
| AWSALBTG | 6d | Amazon Web Services |
| AWSALBTGCORS | 6d | - |
| cf_clearance | 12mo | Cloudflare |
| cookie_storage_key | 2mo | - |
| disable_experiments | session | Substack |
| disable_html_pixels | session | Substack |
| __cf_bm | < 1h | Cloudflare |
| Key | Size | Detected as |
|---|---|---|
| pub-9345910-subscribe-prompt-next-shown-at | 13 B | - |
| pub-9345910-takeover-next-shown-at | 13 B | - |
| substack_ref | 2 B | Substack |
| substack_ref_url | 74 B | Substack |
| Key | Size | Detected as |
|---|---|---|
| substack_ref | 2 B | Substack |
| substack_ref_url | 74 B | Substack |
Readiness Breakdown How?
Performance How?
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?
| Signal | Points |
|---|---|
| AI CSS signals | +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.