Hi all. Quick warning before you read this - I am not a developer. I have never written code professionally in my life. I am posting this on dev.to because I think some of you will find the technical decisions interesting, and some of you (the ones who get asked by friends "can you build me a website?") might want to know what is actually possible now with AI coding tools, without being patronising about it.

I run edifyedu.in . Independent comparison platform for India's online universities. 2053 pages live. Built solo, no dev team, no agency. Took me 1.9 years.

Here is what the stack looks like and what I learned.

The stack

Frontend - Next.js 14, App Router, Tailwind CSS, deployed on Vercel.

CMS - Google Sheets, connected through Google Apps Script.

Why this combo?…