StackScope Report: Vercel Powers One-Third of Indie Product Launches, React and Tailwind Usage Drop When Excluded
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A May 2026 report from StackScope analyzes 17,652 indie product launches across Product Hunt, Hacker News, and PeerPush. Key findings include: a third of indie launches run on Vercel; when Vercel-based sites are removed, Tailwind usage drops from 54% to 46%, React from 36% to 20%, and Google Analytics becomes more prevalent. The report tracks tech stack trends including frameworks, hosting, analytics, and AI-built site detection.
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· 3 pulledA third of indie launches run on Vercel.
Strip them out and the stack underneath changes shape: Tailwind drops from 54% to 46%, React from 36% to 20%, and Google Analytics gets more common, not less.
That's one of five findings from analysing 17,652 indie launches across Product Hunt, Hacker News and PeerPush in May.
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