Added Blog section and Created 1st Article

Ported to Next.js

I originally started building AppTally in React.js.

But soon I realised the current version will be just the free tool along with the landing page, blogs etc.

So SEO is very important and a quick research in Reddit made me realise that if SEO is important then we have to choose Next.js. So ported the app over to Next.js by following the official guide.

Note: If you are primarily vibe coding(like me) avoid changing frameworks using AI, because most of the time it messes up everything. Just follow the official guide manually. Even if it takes some extra time, it will be must better than debugging the messed up version.

Blog using Sanity

Again went to Reddit to search for best way to implement blogs in Next.js and Sanity came up more often in discussions.

I depend on Reddit to get useful insights like this, because we can find unbiased real developer feedbacks on such tools.

I tried out a few templates and finally decided to stick with the official Clean Next.js x Sanity template.

Even though I knew about the concepts of headless CMS, it took me some time to wrap my head around how Sanity works. Like how we have a Studio which we can edit according to our requirement and publish it to access it remotely.

I also edited the blog listing and blog detailed section to look more aligned with our current theme. Inspirations were taken from The Dan Koe Letters like the alignment and font.

My First Article

I wrote the blog in half an hour and you can find it here: How to See Exact Number of Play Store Downloads of any Android App?

It is focused on my primary long tail keywords. I had done SEO keyword research using Keyword Surfer. Added the site to Google and Bing Webmaster along with the sitemaps for faster indexing.

I am not looking to write any articles soon, just wanted to get this article out. But I will write if something comes up and I can write it in under 30 mins.

Now focus is back on shipping the main tool which shows download history. I am already late by 1 week according to my roadmap.