Jonathan released StackScope, a crawler that catalogs tech stacks behind indie launches. It pulls URLs from Product Hunt, Show HN and PeerPush, then visits each site to record hosting providers, frameworks, analytics, DNS settings, security headers and AI‑builder signals. By surfacing these details, the project helps investors gauge technical risk early across multiple domains and deployment models.

StackScope runs on .NET and uses Playwright to render JavaScript‑heavy pages. Instead of borrowing Wappalyzer’s fingerprint library, Jonathan built his own catalogue. The crawler respects robots.txt and identifies itself, but Cloudflare still blocks about ten percent of targets until verified‑bot status is granted. Users can paste a URL for a private readiness check while maintaining low resource consumption.

To date the service has indexed 41,776 launches, flagging 19 % with strong AI‑generation patterns and tracking over 4,800 unique technologies. The public dashboard lets developers compare their own stack against current indie trends, potentially informing tooling choices before scaling. It also offers JSON exports for researchers building custom analytics pipelines. Feedback on false positives and methodology is openly requested, positioning StackScope as a community‑driven observatory.