Launch readiness check
Check your site's launch readiness and get the fixes to ship
What is Launch readiness check?
Launch Readiness Check shows you what to fix on your site before you ship it to Product Hunt, Hacker News, or PeerPush. Paste your URL, wait about 30 seconds, and get a score from 0 to 10 with the specific items dragging it down and how to fix each one.
It checks the things makers usually find out about too late:
- Security headers: HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, X-Content-Type-Options
- Privacy and legal: privacy policy, terms of service, cookie policy
- Web standards: robots.txt, sitemap.xml, security.txt, llms.txt
- AI-built tells: placeholder text, root-domain social links, unconfigured contact emails, and common AI-builder fingerprints
- Infrastructure: hosting, country, DNS provider, DNSSEC, SSL certificate and expiry, domain age, registrar
- Tech stack: every framework, library, host, analytics tool, payment processor, email service, and CDN we can fingerprint
What makes it different: it's the same report every public launch in the StackScope directory gets, run on your own site, privately, before anyone else sees it. You get a bookmark URL to re-run after you ship fixes. The report stays private unless you launch publicly.
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try and pick a problem that you want to work on for 10 years even if it were to fail and that's kind of how I feel like even if Monarch were to fail I would feel good that we like move the ball forward.
Pick a Problem You'd Work on for 10 Years Even if It Failed — That's Your Filter
YC's framing is that startups die because founders quit, not because they run out of money. Val uses a personal filter that sidesteps that risk: choose the problem you would keep working on with no exit in sight. For Monarch, that was household financial health — a space Val cared about before Mint, cared about while funding it personally, and cared about through multiple black swan events. The 10-year test surfaces real commitment before you invest real years.
When we feel like we feel a bit the pain you know we start hiring... it's not necessarily like they are growth driven, it's like just I have too much on my plate I need someone.
Hire against acute personal pain, not against a growth plan
Bruno rejects the VC-style staffing plan in favor of hiring against acute founder pain. When founders can no longer do product, support, dev, and admin simultaneously, they offload whichever function hurts most. This kept the team at 10 people while still growing MRR 3x and serving 5M MAU.
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