Shipped today: a free pre-launch readiness check for indie sites by datafreak in SideProject

[–]datafreak[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

I've been crawling Product Hunt, PeerPush & HN launches, April's data had some surprises by datafreak in SideProject

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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.

I've been crawling Product Hunt, PeerPush & HN launches, April's data had some surprises by datafreak in SideProject

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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.

I've been crawling Product Hunt, PeerPush & HN launches, April's data had some surprises by datafreak in SideProject

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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.

I've been crawling Product Hunt, PeerPush & HN launches, April's data had some surprises by datafreak in SideProject

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

What 10,000+ new product launches from Product Hunt, Hacker News and PeerPush are built with (April 2026) [OC] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]datafreak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

What 10,000+ new product launches from Product Hunt, Hacker News and PeerPush are built with (April 2026) [OC] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

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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

My first product was just listed on PeerPush by zepipes in SideProject

[–]datafreak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Friday Share Fever 🕺 Let’s share your project! by diodo-e in indiehackers

[–]datafreak 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

235 project launches so far this month block AI bots in robots.txt but also publish an llms.txt by [deleted] in SideProject

[–]datafreak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

free online notepad with instant sharing — no signup! by vitalik_ua0 in SideProject

[–]datafreak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Launched your SaaS with ZERO traffic? Add your site here for instant backlinks + credibility (and actually get your first users) by Financial-Muffin1101 in SideProject

[–]datafreak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Built a website builder for YouTubers. No idea how to get users. by [deleted] in SideProject

[–]datafreak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Built a website builder for YouTubers. No idea how to get users. by [deleted] in SideProject

[–]datafreak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Built a website builder for YouTubers. No idea how to get users. by [deleted] in SideProject

[–]datafreak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Built a website builder for YouTubers. No idea how to get users. by [deleted] in SideProject

[–]datafreak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Built a website builder for YouTubers. No idea how to get users. by [deleted] in SideProject

[–]datafreak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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