Launch Readiness Check

Launch Readiness Check by StackScope is a free tool that scans your website and generates a private readiness report to fix issues before launching on Product Hunt, Hacker News, or PeerPush.

What is Launch Readiness Check?

Launch Readiness Check is a pre-launch audit tool that checks your website against the same criteria StackScope uses for its public directory listings. You submit a URL, wait about 30 seconds, and receive a score from 0 to 10 with specific items dragging it down and how to fix each one. Created by StackScope, it runs on their platform and respects robots.txt, identifying as StackScopeBot/1.0.

What makes Launch Readiness Check stand out?

• Security headers check — verifies HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, and X-Content-Type-Options are correctly configured.
• Privacy and legal audit — detects presence of privacy policy, terms of service, and cookie policy pages.
• Web standards validation — checks for robots.txt, sitemap.xml, security.txt, and llms.txt (the AI-crawler policy file).
• AI-build footprint detection — identifies common signs of AI-assisted builds such as placeholder text, unconfigured contact emails, and root-domain social links.
• Infrastructure and DNS insight — reveals hosting provider, country, DNS provider, DNSSEC status, SSL certificate details and expiry, domain age, and registrar.
• Tech stack fingerprinting — detects every framework, library, hosting provider, analytics tool, payment processor, email service, and CDN in use.
• Private and rerunnable — each scan is private; you get a bookmark URL to rerun once per 24 hours after applying fixes.
• Consistent with public listings — the same report that public StackScope directory listings receive, run privately.

Who should use Launch Readiness Check?

• Indie makers and solo founders preparing to launch on Product Hunt, Hacker News, or PeerPush — they can identify and fix issues before their public debut.
• Tech-savvy entrepreneurs who want to ensure their site meets security and web standard best practices without manual auditing.
• Teams building with AI tools — the AI-build tells section helps catch remnants of AI-generated content that could undermine credibility.

What can you do with Launch Readiness Check?

• Pre-launch audit: Run the tool after building your landing page and before posting to a launch platform to catch technical and content issues.
• Ongoing monitoring: Rerun the scan every 24 hours as you make changes to track improvement in readiness score.
• Claim and remove data: If your site is already listed publicly, you can claim it and request removal via the claim page.

How does Launch Readiness Check work?

1. Enter your site's URL and complete a Turnstile CAPTCHA.
2. StackScope fetches your main page only (respecting robots.txt) in about 30 seconds.
3. It analyzes the page against the checklist and generates a score from 0 to 10 with specific items to fix.
4. You receive a private bookmark URL for the report, which you can revisit or rerun (limited to once per 24 hours per site).
5. Public listings are only created when StackScope crawls your site from a launch on Product Hunt, Hacker News, or PeerPush — the private report remains private.

Pricing

Free. No paid tiers are mentioned.

FAQ

How long does a scan take?

About 30 seconds.

Can I turn my private report into a public listing?

No. Public listings come only from StackScope crawling your site at the time of a launch on Product Hunt, Hacker News, or PeerPush.

How do I remove my data?

Prove ownership via the claim page (HTML meta tag, .well-known file, or DNS record), then remove the report yourself. Full details on the bot page.