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?
- Enter your site's URL and complete a Turnstile CAPTCHA.
- StackScope fetches your main page only (respecting robots.txt) in about 30 seconds.
- It analyzes the page against the checklist and generates a score from 0 to 10 with specific items to fix.
- You receive a private bookmark URL for the report, which you can revisit or rerun (limited to once per 24 hours per site).
- 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.
