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See how alerts work93 sites
57 found by StackScope, 36 via launch platforms
- StackScope Discovery (Indie) 38
- StackScope Wider Web 19
- Product Hunt 24
- Hacker News 7
- PeerPush 4
- Other 1
Shields.io has been detected on 93 launches we've crawled. The 7-day rolling share is 0.0%, roughly steady week on week. Most recent detection: adb-mcp: drive Android with AI over MCP, yesterday.
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 (24%), and Content (4%). The 35 scored launches using Shields.io average a StackScope score of 7.4 out of 10, against 6.4 across all launches we score.
What kind of products ship with Shields.io
67 launches
Domain endings using Shields.io
93 sites
- .com 32.26%
- .dev 17.20%
- .app 7.53%
- .ai 6.45%
- .io 6.45%
- .org 5.38%
- .online 4.30%
- .me 3.23%
- .net 3.23%
- .xyz 3.23%
Share of new sites using Shields.io
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before June 2026.
The shaded part of the chart is measured against a different set of sites. Until 8 July 2026 we only tracked launches from launch platforms; from that date we crawl the wider web as well. The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time, so it can step at that line without the technology itself changing. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.
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 | – |
|
22.56% | 97.46% |
| #2 | – |
|
0.39% | 1.68% |
| #3 | ▲1 |
|
0.11% | 0.49% |
| #4 | ▼1 |
|
0.08% | 0.34% |
| #5 | – |
|
0.06% | 0.26% |
| … | ||||
| #25 | ▼9 |
|
<0.01% | 0.02% |
Percentages show adoption among indie launches: the share of all analysed launches, and of launches using any Developer Tools tool.Among August launches it ranked #26 in Developer Tools, down from #17 in July. All 315 in Developer Tools →
Recent launches we can show
74 of the 93 sites using Shields.io are product launches we list individually. The other 19 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. How StackScope Discovery works
Three Slicer
Developer Tools
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