← Back to browse

Sad Mascots

Covering the Emotional Wreckage of Sports — One Mascot at a Time.

Added April 4, 2026 · Last analysed April 10, 2026 · via · 86% 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 10 April 2026; the live site may have changed since.

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

Launched on Product Hunt on April 4, 2026. The site is hosted on AWS S3 and served through AWS CloudFront, with a domain registered 1 week before launch. The crawl picked up 7 technologies on this site, covering CDN, cloud, DNS providers, and business email. The stack includes Astro, Amazon Web Services, and AWS CloudFront.

For context, it's on a stack we've seen on only 13 launches.

If you own this site, refresh the snapshot and see the full fix list any time →

6.0
StackScope Score
Good
94/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
2/3 Legal
Partial
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 (7) · Scale-up stack

Infrastructure
CDN AWS CloudFront (3)
Cloud Amazon Web Services (2)
DNS AWS Route 53
Hosting AWS S3 (2)
Email
Business email Zoho Mail (2)
Build & Framework
Font Google Fonts
Meta-framework Astro (2)

Infrastructure

Network
AS16509 · US
DNS
AWS Route 53
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
Domain Age
3 months
Registered Mar 2026 · NameCheap, Inc.

Email Security

SPF ~all Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
?
DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
DMARC p=reject Reject (strict). Strong.
?
MTA-STS Not deployed. Mail to your domain can be downgraded to plaintext en route.
?
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)
Canonical URL declared
Responsive viewport meta tag
Favicon present
Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)
- Twitter card meta tags

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 (1 URLs)
security.txt
llms.txt
ads.txt
humans.txt
Privacy Policy
/privacy
? Terms of Service not detected
94% unique

Security Headers (0/6)

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

Performance

197ms response time
Faster than 72% of sites
3 third-party domains loaded

Build

1 JS files
3 CSS files
3 Third-party domains
Something not look right? If a technology shown here is wrong or out of date, email [email protected] and we'll review it.