I Built a Free Game Walkthrough Site — Here's What I Learned About Content at Scale

I've been building side projects for years, but this one taught me more about content strategy than any business book. The Problem My friends and I play a lot of word puzzle games — Wordle, Word Cookies, Connections. Every time we got stuck, we'd search for answers and land on sites drowning in ads, pop-ups, and cookie banners. Half the time, the "walkthrough" was just a paragraph telling you to "think harder." So I figured: why not build something better? What I Built A straightforward game walkthrough site. No login walls. No intrusive ads. Just clean, fast answers organized by game and level. The stack is pretty minimal: Next.js for SSG (static site generation is perfect for walkthrough pages) Tailwind CSS v4 for styling Cloudflare Pages for hosting (free tier handles the traffic fine) JSON files for content data (no database needed for static walkthroughs) Each game gets its own section, and each level has a dedicated page with the answer, hints, and sometimes a brief explanation o