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I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship

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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.

HN · launched Jun 12, 2026 · 67 upvotes (top 12%) · 0 views

Niche: market and business intelligence platforms · 196 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -56% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Analytics & BI
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial The front-end directory and technographic lookup UI are basic, but maintaining a resilient, distributed crawler that continuously scans tens of thousands of launch sites and performs technographic fingerprinting requires significant data pipeline infrastructure.

What it would actually take: The system requires a distributed scraping queue (e.g., Celery, BullMQ, or Temporal), headless browser workers (Playwright/Puppeteer) with proxy rotation, and a signature-matching engine (similar to Wappalyzer). Hard problems include dodging bot blocks, parsing dynamically rendered SPAs reliably at scale, and cataloging tens of thousands of tech signatures accurately.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Bolt.new, Claude Code, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages

Concerns raised: False positives in detection (e.g., AI builder signatures), Misclassification of backend frameworks (Laravel detected as React/Vue), Cloudflare blocking/CDN hiding affecting accuracy, CSS and JS files returning corrupted content errors, Industry fragmentation with too many "unique" technologies tracked

Feature requests: Vibe score trend over time visualization, Analysis for StackScope itself visible, Market category/domain/application filtering, HSTS preload list checking, Better differentiation of hosting (Cloudflare Pages vs CDN detection)

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 306 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #42 of 307 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 224 days after the earliest competitor.

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