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Found via: Product Hunt 16 · Hacker News 5 · PeerPush 3 · StackScope Discovery (Indie) 3 · StackScope Wider Web 1
Shields.io has been detected on 24 launches we've crawled. Most recent detection: OpenVerb, on July 8, 2026.
It's most commonly paired with HSTS, Google Search Console, and Cloudflare DNS. By product type, the launches using it are most often Developer Tools (55%), AI (40%), and Content (5%). The 24 scored launches using Shields.io average a StackScope score of 7.5 out of 10, against 6.3 across all launches we score.
What kind of products ship with Shields.io
20 launches
Share of new launches using Shields.io
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average.
How StackScope detects technologies
⋮ Jul 1, 2026: Adoption figures now count launches from launch platforms. Use the source view to include StackScope Discovery.
Developer Tools leaders
| Tool | % of launches | % of category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – |
|
22.94% | 95.41% |
| #2 |
|
0.32% | 1.34% | |
| #3 | ▲1 |
|
0.10% | 0.42% |
| #4 | ▼3 |
|
0.08% | 0.34% |
| #5 | ▲2 |
|
0.08% | 0.32% |
| … | ||||
| #10 | ▼2 |
|
0.04% | 0.16% |
Percentages show adoption among indie launches: the share of all analysed launches, and of launches using any Developer Tools tool.Among June launches it ranked #12 in Developer Tools, down from #10 in May. All 121 in Developer Tools →
Most recent of 24 launches using Shields.io
OpenVerb
mpz - music player for local collections
Content
CVE Lite CLI
Developer Tools
Llm-wiki
AI
AIUsage
AI
TTMT | Telegram to MetaTrader
Pokayoke
Developer Tools
Dataforge Honeypot
Developer Tools
MCPSpend
CipherExplain
Linkedrecords
Multilingual CMS & TMS & Visual Editor
Showing the most recent 12 of 24.