The numbers behind smarter home repairs.
HomeRepairMath is a low-maintenance, tool-first website for homeowners deciding whether to repair, replace, DIY, hire a pro, or budget a project. The site is designed to pair genuinely useful evergreen calculators with search-friendly explanatory content and conservative, policy-safe AdSense placements.
- Help homeowners make better repair decisions with transparent math.
- Favor evergreen tools over high-maintenance news, price feeds, or product catalogs.
- Build pages that remain useful if every ad is removed.
- Target commercial-intent home-repair searches without becoming a thin SEO content farm.
- Keep the architecture simple enough to maintain with minimal owner involvement.
- Repair vs. Replace — age, repair/replacement cost, condition, and repair-history model.
- DIY vs. Hire a Pro — compares a professional quote with materials, tools, time, difficulty, and rework risk.
- Project Cost Estimator — combines user-entered materials, labor, fees, taxes, disposal, and contingency.
Repair-vs-replace has dedicated static landing pages for washers, dryers, refrigerators, dishwashers, water heaters, and central HVAC systems.
- Appliance remaining-life estimator
- Energy-efficiency payback calculator
- Additional repair categories only when the page can provide item-specific value
- Next.js 16 App Router
- React 19
- TypeScript
- Static-first rendering where practical
- No database required for the MVP
- GitHub Actions lint/build validation
- AdSense placeholders only until the site is complete, deployed, and approved
npm install
npm run devThen open http://localhost:3000.
Production validation:
npm run lint
npm run builddocs/roadmap.md— product sequencedocs/content-standard.md— minimum quality bar for indexable pagesdocs/seo-strategy.md— search architecturedocs/adsense-strategy.md— monetization and policy guardrailsdocs/launch-checklist.md— launch steps and owner-input gates
Ad revenue is a secondary layer on top of useful tools. Ads must not be confused with navigation, calculator controls, recommendations, or required actions. Live ad code should not be added simply to make an unfinished site monetizable.
Functional pre-launch MVP. Public deployment, domain confirmation, contact information, analytics choice, and AdSense credentials are intentionally not hard-coded into the repository.
Leave NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL unset for the temporary Vercel address. Canonical URLs, sitemap, and robots use VERCEL_PROJECT_PRODUCTION_URL, falling back to VERCEL_URL and then localhost for local builds. Set NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL only after a custom domain is owned and connected. Public contact is through GitHub issues, linked from /contact. No AdSense or analytics credentials are required.
The app supports URL-prefix verification through a Google HTML meta tag without source edits. Set NEXT_PUBLIC_GOOGLE_SITE_VERIFICATION in Vercel to the token value supplied by Search Console, redeploy, then verify the deployed URL-prefix property. The generated sitemap is available at /sitemap.xml.