Six months ago, I started building ToolForge — a completely free online toolkit for students, developers, and professionals in Pakistan. Today it has 56 tools , 86 indexed pages on Google, and gets organic traffic from 15+ countries. No ads, no signup, no data collection. Here's the technical journey — what worked, what broke, and what I'd do differently. The Stack Next.js 14 App Router — SSR for SEO, server components for speed TypeScript — caught 200+ bugs before deployment Tailwind CSS — shipped UI 3x faster than custom CSS Vercel — auto-deploy on git push, free tier handles our traffic Gemini API — powers 4 AI tools (summarizer, grammar checker, paraphraser, essay writer) Architecture Decision: Why App Router? Every tool page needed to be independently indexable by Google.…