SoloDevTools
AI and developer tool reviews — built with analytics, sitemaps and search setup in place before launch
Visit the live site →Role: Solo — design, build, SEO setup
The problem
I wanted to prove out a repeatable launch checklist: what it takes for a genuinely production-ready site to go live — not a template dropped onto a host, but a real content site with analytics, search indexing and structured data all functioning at launch.
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
A live site with a perfect Lighthouse performance score and analytics recording from the first visitor. Everything most sites bolt on after launch was already working on the first deploy.
Most web projects that drag are not hard because of the code. They drag because infrastructure decisions get deferred. Making those decisions first is what keeps a project predictable.
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.
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