SoloDevTools
AI and developer tool reviews — built, deployed and search-ready in a single day
Visit the live site →Role: Solo — design, build, SEO setup
The problem
I wanted a clean measurement of how fast a genuinely production-ready site could go from nothing to live — not a template dropped onto a host, but a real content site with analytics, search indexing and structured data all functioning on day one.
How I built it
Static-first architecture
Astro compiles to static HTML with no client-side framework, so pages arrive complete instead of assembling themselves in the browser.
Search infrastructure before content
Sitemaps, Search Console verification, robots rules and an llms.txt AI-crawler index were configured before the first article shipped — the reverse of the usual order, and the reason indexing started immediately.
Edge hosting
Cloudflare Pages, so the site is served from a data centre near the visitor rather than from one origin server.
The outcome
Concept to live site in a single day, with a perfect Lighthouse performance score and analytics recording from the first visitor. Everything most sites bolt on months later was already working at launch.
Most "slow" web projects are not slow because the code is hard. They are slow because infrastructure decisions get deferred. Making them first is what compresses the timeline.
Technical stack and details
A content site reviewing AI and developer tools. Static Astro build on Cloudflare Pages with analytics, Search Console, sitemaps and an llms.txt AI-crawler index wired in before launch rather than bolted on afterward.
Want something built to this standard?
Tell me what you are trying to do and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it — and roughly what it costs. Replies within one business day.