Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by ishansgupta » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 5:03 PM UTC

Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website
sitestacks.com

Re: Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by ishansgupta » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 5:04 PM UTC

SiteStacks can find the technology used at any domain, including a set of roughly 700,000 that we’re regularly checking.

What makes the dataset unique is the combination of programmatic data (code breadcrumbs, network requests, DNS, some NLP, etc.), but augmented by data validated by users directly.

The user validated data is only available on Siftery (e.g. for sitestacks.com/uber.com you have to follow the link through to siftery.com/company/uber to see the full set), but all the programmatic methods are improved by user-validated data (e.g. if a method yields too many false positive, we bump it out).

We think this approach helps create the most accurate dataset of its kind. We’ve done some internal benchmarking and feel really good about it.

We’re looking for feedback on how this can be better, and open to partnering with others who want to make use of this data for good.

Re: Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by adzicg » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 6:28 PM UTC

ishansgupta wrote: post #2

SiteStacks can find the technology used at any domain, including a set of roughly 700,000 that we’re regularly checking. What makes the dataset unique is the combination of programmatic data (code breadcrumbs, network requests, DNS, some NLP, etc.), but augmented by data validated by users directly. The user validated data is only available on Siftery (e.g. for sitestacks.com/uber.com you have to follow the link thro…

just tried this for our app, and it wrongly reported mandrill and flash (we’re not using any of them). we used mandrill a few years ago, so this might be some stale historical data, but the app never used flash.

Re: Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by mceoin » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 6:30 PM UTC

Congrats on the launch. It looks like I can click on a tag (on hover, color and cursor change), but when I do that nothing happens.

Re: Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by edoceo » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 6:31 PM UTC

adzicg wrote: post #3

ishansgupta wrote: post #2

SiteStacks can find the technology used at any domain, including a set of roughly 700,000 that we’re regularly checking. What makes the dataset unique is the combination of programmatic data (code breadcrumbs, network requests, DNS, some NLP, etc.), but augmented by data validated by users directly. The user validated data is only available on Siftery (e.g. for sitestacks.com/uber.com you have to follow the link thro…

just tried this for our app, and it wrongly reported mandrill and flash (we’re not using any of them). we used mandrill a few years ago, so this might be some stale historical data, but the app never used flash.

Could mandrill stuff still be listed in your DNS? Like TXT or SPF or DKIM?

Re: Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by bootcat » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 6:31 PM UTC

doesn't http://www.builtwith.com/ do this already and have so much data too ?

Re: Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by edoceo » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 6:32 PM UTC

Dupe from 20 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15249136

Re: Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by tjic » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 6:43 PM UTC

ishansgupta wrote: post #2

SiteStacks can find the technology used at any domain, including a set of roughly 700,000 that we’re regularly checking. What makes the dataset unique is the combination of programmatic data (code breadcrumbs, network requests, DNS, some NLP, etc.), but augmented by data validated by users directly. The user validated data is only available on Siftery (e.g. for sitestacks.com/uber.com you have to follow the link thro…

> SiteStacks can find the technology used at any domain

I punched in a URL of a website I built, it didn't have data, went out to get some, then reported back that it couldn't.

Meanwhile https://builtwith.com/reservations.camprrm.com worked.

Re: Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 6:45 PM UTC

adzicg wrote: post #3

ishansgupta wrote: post #2

SiteStacks can find the technology used at any domain, including a set of roughly 700,000 that we’re regularly checking. What makes the dataset unique is the combination of programmatic data (code breadcrumbs, network requests, DNS, some NLP, etc.), but augmented by data validated by users directly. The user validated data is only available on Siftery (e.g. for sitestacks.com/uber.com you have to follow the link thro…

just tried this for our app, and it wrongly reported mandrill and flash (we’re not using any of them). we used mandrill a few years ago, so this might be some stale historical data, but the app never used flash.

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Re: Show HN: Discover the tech stack for any website

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 6:46 PM UTC

adzicg wrote: post #3

ishansgupta wrote: post #2

SiteStacks can find the technology used at any domain, including a set of roughly 700,000 that we’re regularly checking. What makes the dataset unique is the combination of programmatic data (code breadcrumbs, network requests, DNS, some NLP, etc.), but augmented by data validated by users directly. The user validated data is only available on Siftery (e.g. for sitestacks.com/uber.com you have to follow the link thro…

just tried this for our app, and it wrongly reported mandrill and flash (we’re not using any of them). we used mandrill a few years ago, so this might be some stale historical data, but the app never used flash.

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