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United States Estimated origin: United States

Added July 15, 2026 · Last analysed July 15, 2026 · via · 71% 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 15 July 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Skip The Critics ships with the launch fundamentals in place, with complete legal pages, a thorough launch checklist, and clean crawl signals. What needs work: no Content-Security-Policy, tracking cookies set before any opt-in, and no email security records.

Launched on Product Hunt on July 15, 2026. The site is hosted on Vercel, with a domain registered 6 days before launch. We've detected 9 technologies on this site, covering analytics, DNS providers, web fonts, and frameworks. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Cloudflare DNS.

It's running the same core stack as 2,210 other launches and tighter on security headers than most Product Hunt launches.

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9.5
StackScope Score
Excellent
100/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
3/3* Legal
Complete*
2/2 Crawl files
Complete
Vibe Score 15 · 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 (9)

Infrastructure
DNS Cloudflare DNS
Hosting Vercel
Security HSTS
Build & Framework
Font Google Fonts
Framework React
Meta-framework Next.js (5)
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Google Analytics (5)
SEO Google Search Console
Tag management Google Tag Manager (2)

Infrastructure

Network
AS16509 · US
DNS
Cloudflare 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 10 Jul 2026 to 8 Oct 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
7 days
Registered Jul 2026 · Cloudflare, Inc.

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 (2)

Cookies (2)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_ga_BXNGXZ0553 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)
Page title is 70 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 60 characters of the title in search results; aim for 50–60 to keep the whole thing visible.

Performance How?

424 ms Server response
43% Faster than peers
672 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
2.1 MB Page weight
1.5 MB Image weight
6 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

23 images: 23 oversized, 23 without width/height, 6 missing alt text

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 palette signals +5
AI styling signals +10

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 (449 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.
92% unique

Security Headers (5/6)

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

Build

Code splitting
11 JS files
2 CSS files
6 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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