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Open-descent

Message, call, and build communities without anyone listening. End-to-end encrypted. Peer-to-peer. Free and open source.

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Added April 11, 2026 · Last analysed April 11, 2026 · via Hacker News · 70% 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 11 April 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Open-descent is largely in shape, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and clean crawl signals. What needs work: missing several security headers and incomplete email security.

Launched on Hacker News on April 11, 2026. The site is hosted on IONOS, with a domain registered 1 week before launch. The crawl picked up 7 technologies on this site, covering analytics, DNS providers, business email, and hosting. The stack includes Google Search Console, IONOS, and IONOS DNS.

For context, it's running the same core stack as 125 other launches.

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7.1
StackScope Score
Good
100/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
3/3 Legal
Complete
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
Vibe Score 45 · 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 (7)

Infrastructure
DNS IONOS DNS
Hosting IONOS
OS Ubuntu (2)
Server nginx (2)
Email
Business email IONOS Email
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Plausible
SEO Google Search Console

Infrastructure

DNS
IONOS DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
SSL Certificate
Let's Encrypt
Valid 1 Apr 2026 to 30 Jun 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
3 months
Registered Apr 2026 · IONOS SE

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=none None (p=none). Monitoring only.
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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.

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 168 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.

Vibe Score Breakdown How?

SignalPoints
AI writing signals +5
AI code-structure signals +5
AI CSS signals +15

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

Security Headers (0/6)

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

Performance

204ms response time
Faster than 71% of sites
2 third-party domains loaded

Build

1 JS files
0 CSS files
2 Third-party domains

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