I built a multilingual AI tools directory in Kotlin and Next.js, solo. Here's what 6 months taught me (mostly painful).

Posting this from Nouméa (New Caledonia), currently here for work. Big timezone gap with most of you, so apologies if I'm a few hours behind on replies. Happy to answer any questions about the stack, the SEO disaster, the bot detection, or anything else 🌊 I'll be honest, I almost didn't write this