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New comment by datafreak_ in "Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship"

datafreak_ — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:27:17 +0000

Let me know if anything is detected wrong!

New comment by datafreak_ in "Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship"

datafreak_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:14:50 +0000

I'm trying but it's getting blocked by Cloudflare and ending up getting broken, ha!

I will include a vibe score trend in the next blog post.

New comment by datafreak_ in "Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship"

datafreak_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:55:08 +0000

Cloudflare Pages get hidden behind the CF CDN, so are included in the CDN figure.

New comment by datafreak_ in "Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship"

datafreak_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:29:10 +0000

What's your response header content? Reads like it's being cf-mitigated.

Edit: loosened a cf rule, should be good now.

Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship

datafreak_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:26:12 +0000

Hey all, I built StackScope, a crawler/catalogue that looks at new product launches and shows what they were built with.

It watches launches from Product Hunt, Show HN, and PeerPush, then crawls the public site behind each one. The goal is to show what people actually launched with: hosting, frameworks, analytics, DNS, security headers, legal pages, AI-builder signals, and other public clues.

I started building it because most stack-detection sites look at the web as a whole. I was more interested in the current indie launch scene: what people are choosing right now, at the point they first put something in public.

A few implementation details: it runs on .NET, uses Playwright for rendered pages, and has a first-party fingerprint catalogue rather than one copied from Wappalyzer/etc. robots.txt is honoured, and the bot identifies itself.

Frustratingly, I am still waiting for verified bot status from Cloudflare and currently that knocks out about 10% of all sites.

There is also a private readiness check: paste a URL, get the same style of report, fix things, and recrawl. No account or email needed.

I'd be interested in feedback on the usefulness of this, the methodology, and any obvious false positives.

Jonathan.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505364

Points: 67

# Comments: 21

React adoption drops from 36% to 20% once you remove Vercel-hosted launches

datafreak_ — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:49:04 +0000

Article URL: https://stackscope.dev/blog/state-of-indie-launches-may-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355095

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Resend overtook SendGrid+Mailgun+Postmark+Mailjet combined on indie launches

datafreak_ — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:32:50 +0000

Article URL: https://stackscope.dev/blog/state-of-indie-launches-april-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006855

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by datafreak_ in "Show HN: I built a free email security checker for small businesses"

datafreak_ — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:30:38 +0000

hey, congrats on the launch, your own tool is flagging shielddeskhq.com at 35, worth a quick fix.

New comment by datafreak_ in "Show HN: The why and how of TurboPentest for the Agentic Era"

datafreak_ — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:08:47 +0000

You are missing the following security headers on your site:

X-Frame-Options Permissions-Policy X-Content-Type-Options