How my indie web app subdomain managed to rank #3 on Google, right below the official Colombo Stock

Hey everyone, I wanted to share a small SEO and building win that surprised even me. I've been working on a project hosted on a simple subdomain (.lovable.app), and for one of my target keywords, it managed to climb all the way to #3 on Google, sitting right behind the official Colombo Stock Exchange website (cse.lk). For a long time, people told me that doing SEO on a free/subdomain platform is practically useless and that you can't compete with massive institutional domains. But by foc