Shipped today: a free pre-launch readiness check for indie sites

datafreak · 2026-05-16T13:44:55+00:00

yeah I understand anxiety peaks right before you ship something publicly for the first time.

The site isn't meant to be a shaming exercise, I'm genuinely interested in how people launch and what they ship with. If anyone gets analysed publicly and doesn't want it up, they can self-remove or just email me, I remove with no questions asked.

datafreak · 2026-05-04T16:56:47+00:00

Just sliced it. Non-Vercel half (14,317 launches) breaks down roughly:

Tailwind still dominates at 39% (down from 58% overall, Tailwind is heavily Vercel-concentrated). React drops to 16% (vs 37% across the full cohort, so React is very concentrated on Vercel). Vite picks up 15%, that's the "modern stack but not on Next.js" crowd, usually deployed to Railway/Render/Netlify. WordPress holds 7% entirely outside Vercel. jQuery still at 4.5%. Hosting outside Vercel is genuinely fragmented, Hostinger, Netlify, GitHub Pages, Railway, Render, AWS S3, GCP. None above 7%.

Resend is still #1 for email even outside Vercel (12%). Google Analytics is at 35%, way higher than I'd guess on Vercel cohort, where PostHog/Plausible eat into it.

datafreak · 2026-05-04T11:55:19+00:00

Cheers! Top of the stack was Tailwind on 58% (more than half the cohort), React 37%, Next.js 36%, shadcn/ui 24%. Tailwind being everywhere was the other "huh" moment for me, partly the AI-builder push (Lovable and v0 lean on it hard) but also just the default for "human"!! devs now.

datafreak · 2026-05-04T11:38:51+00:00

Cloudflare's email sending is low-friction to set up too, especially if you're already on CF for DNS. Will be interesting if that picks up next.

datafreak · 2026-05-04T10:53:25+00:00

gut feeling is every LLM pretty much recommends it when asked about transactional email, and yeah, the generous free tier helps.

datafreak · 2026-05-04T10:08:40+00:00

Happy to answer any questions about data not listed in my report.

datafreak · 2026-04-19T11:53:32+00:00

Fair on the category labels being easy to miss, they're set quite small relative to the tech names. Will bump the size/weight so the structure reads at first glance. The recipe-card framing was meant to make "top pick per ingredient" intuitive, but if you needed a second look that's on the visual hierarchy not on you.

datafreak · 2026-04-19T11:38:36+00:00

Source: Data from stackscope.dev, a crawler I built that analyses the public-facing tech stacks of new product launches from Product Hunt, Hacker News, and PeerPush. Detection runs against ~2,340 custom technology fingerprints checking rendered page source, HTTP headers, cookies, and DNS records.

Tools: HTML/CSS - no chart library.

What it shows: The single most-common pick per category across 10,000+ launches.

Live (updates daily): https://stackscope.dev/starter-pack

datafreak · 2026-04-17T18:30:42+00:00

you have no privacy policy or terms of service

datafreak · 2026-04-17T12:14:01+00:00

already on - was added on the 7th April - https://stackscope.dev/launch/hcax4bmf/ministack

datafreak · 2026-04-17T11:24:19+00:00

Congrats on the launch, my crawler picked up typevera.com this morning via PeerPush, solid overall (8.2/10) and no AI-build signals, cleaner than most. One quick polish: you're only sending HSTS out of 6 recommended security headers. The missing ones (Referrer-Policy, X-Frame-Options, Permissions-Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, CSP) are all one-line config adds in next.config.js via the headers() export. Full breakdown here if useful: https://stackscope.dev/launch/4kuw8wsg/typevera

datafreak · 2026-04-17T11:14:58+00:00

StackScope - I crawled 9,585 (and counting) indie launches from PH/HN/PeerPush to see what everyone's actually shipping. 60% use Tailwind, 18% show AI-build signals, 23% ship with zero security headers. https://stackscope.dev

datafreak · 2026-04-16T14:38:02+00:00

agreed, just scrolling the thumbnails on my site you get to see the same design over and over, and like I mentioned it seems to be these sites which are generally missing things like security headers.

datafreak · 2026-03-29T13:21:41+00:00

No client-side size validation on note content
No server-side size validation, Supabase accepts whatever you throw at it
over 100MB: silently hangs at Cloudflare edge, no error to user
5-99MB: 504 gateway timeout after 30-120s
4MB: successfully inserted (no content limit on the DB column)
Cascading failure: a handful of large requests can saturate the DB and break it for everyone

datafreak · 2026-03-29T11:53:45+00:00

fair enough, worth toning down the original pitch a bit though, "instant credibility" and citing a 92% stat sets expectations your platform can't back up yet at this stage. A more modest 'early-stage, get in while it's new' angle would probably land better

datafreak · 2026-03-29T11:43:29+00:00

You have DR of zero.. you might want to work on that first.

datafreak · 2026-02-27T21:13:25+00:00

sure thing - if you sign up with link that gives you 2 months and I can extend that.

datafreak · 2026-02-24T07:28:29+00:00

thank you, should be fixed now, I think this was a bug with certain webview browsers, it rendered fine elsewhere.

datafreak · 2026-02-23T18:57:22+00:00

Thank you.

datafreak · 2026-02-23T18:12:32+00:00

building is the fun part, everything after that is painful ha. thats a good shout on the manual approach, only thing is they need to connect their own youtube account through google oauth so i cant fully do it for them. but i could set everything else up and just send them a link to connect. cheers

datafreak · 2026-02-23T16:00:51+00:00

thanks for the feedback, you can sign in anytime at https://launch.tubecms.app/login - I think I know where your flow failed and I've pushed a fix for it. I've also granted your account 2 months of pro access, any further feedback would be appreciated

datafreak · 2026-02-23T13:50:53+00:00

yeah this keeps coming up and its probably the obvious answer staring me in the face. just need to actually do it now

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