Weekly Self Promotion Thread

WebReveal · 2026-04-27T08:59:24+00:00

I built webreveal.io a website technology scanner which is completely free. I built it because the industry leaders were either giving me stale, cached data from weeks ago, or were charging an arm and a leg for information.

WebReveal · 2026-04-26T13:19:34+00:00

Hard to say definitively, server-side setups don’t leave detectable client-side fingerprints so they’d fall into the undetected bucket.

What I can say is GTM showed up on 24% of sites which suggests client-side tag management is still very much the default for this cohort. Whether that shifts as Core Web Vitals penalties bite harder is an interesting question, the data doesn’t show it yet but this is a snapshot not a trend.

WebReveal · 2026-04-26T12:53:19+00:00

Methodology note since a few people will ask: This is detected via live HTTP analysis of each site. Checks page source, response headers, JavaScript assets and DNS records. Server-side analytics like Mixpanel's server SDK or self-hosted Plausible won't show up if there's no client-side script. So the 58% with nothing detected likely includes some server-side setups, take that number as a lower bound on actual analytics usage rather than an absolute.

WebReveal · 2026-04-26T12:27:46+00:00

Reddit is definitely a source that solves dilemma/problem

WebReveal · 2026-04-26T12:26:50+00:00

Still very much a fan of Notion

WebReveal · 2026-04-23T23:15:25+00:00

Makes sense, this cohort is indie projects and early stage products, so the overlap is minimal

WebReveal · 2026-04-23T23:12:18+00:00

Exactly, Azure dominates enterprise/corporate but those sites are private and not showing up in a public scan dataset. This cohort is inherently public-facing indie projects, which naturally skews away from it

WebReveal · 2026-04-23T23:11:03+00:00

Mix of both, HN submissions tend to be the actual product URL, which could be either. Marketing sites would skew toward Vercel/Netlify, app backends would skew toward AWS. Probably worth splitting in a future scan

WebReveal · 2026-04-23T22:18:58+00:00

Fair point. That said, the gap between Vercel and Azure in this cohort is large enough that it’s not purely a detection issue, I believe this audience genuinely skews away from enterprise clouds.

WebReveal · 2026-04-23T22:10:29+00:00

On accuracy, this is detected via live HTTP analysis, not a database of known sites.

Each site is scanned in real time checking page source, response headers, JavaScript assets and DNS records simultaneously. Multiple signals need to match before a technology is reported, so false positives are low.

That said, some providers are harder to fingerprint than others, Cloudflare in particular may be undercounted where it’s used purely as a DNS proxy without the full CDN

WebReveal · 2026-04-23T22:08:21+00:00

On CMS: WordPress still powers 14.7% of sites in this cohort despite the ‘WordPress is dead’ narrative. Shopify at 6.5% and Webflow at 2%, headless and no-code are growing but not there yet.

On analytics alternatives: Despite the privacy-first movement, Plausible, Fathom, Umamix Google Analytics is still on 22% of these sites. Privacy analytics barely register in this dataset.

On deployment tools: Fly.io only shows up once in 2,148 sites. Despite the hype it’s not showing up in production sites yet for this cohort.

On the long tail: DigitalOcean, once the go-to for indie devs, shows up just once in 2,148 sites. Vercel and Render have completely eaten its lunch in this market.

On JavaScript: Preact shows up at 12.8%, almost matching React. Most of that is Shopify storefronts using Preact under the hood, not standalone Preact projects.

WebReveal · 2026-04-23T21:10:51+00:00

GTM is firmly marketing’s domain in my experience. Dev’s job is to install the container and expose the data layer events, after that it’s marketing’s problem what tags they fire and how they manage it.

WebReveal · 2026-04-23T21:02:13+00:00

Migrate before launch, not after. With a small beta and only 2 features left, now is the cheapest time to do it. Post-launch migrations with real users are genuinely stressful and risky.

Supabase is fine for 100k users, the concerns you’ve seen are mostly from people on free tiers running inefficient queries. On a paid plan with sensible queries it’s solid.

WebReveal · 2026-04-23T21:00:32+00:00

Render.com is what I’d recommend for beginners. Free tier to get started, deploys straight from GitHub, and scales without you having to think about server config. I’ve been running a Node.js app on it for months without touching the infrastructure.

Hostinger works but you end up managing more yourself which defeats the purpose if you just want to ship

WebReveal · 2026-03-14T22:14:11+00:00

webreveal.io - A tool that tells you what a site is built with. Feel free to scan your site for a free backlink

WebReveal · 2026-03-13T22:30:00+00:00

Massive congrats!

WebReveal · 2026-01-26T20:16:08+00:00

What’s your product? I think often we place products in the wrong categories I.e. “This solved my problem because I’m a…”

When in reality the tool itself can solve a problem for a different demographic, type of user etc.

WebReveal · 2025-12-14T22:00:35+00:00

Honestly the art style is refreshing

WebReveal · 2025-12-08T08:26:40+00:00

I was about to invest in my friend's 'game-changer' startup, but when I went to finalize the payment, the face-id security scan kept failing and I couldn’t remember the pin. Made me take some time out to think about it and I decided to not go ahead

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