How I Built an AI Emoji Generator with Next.js 15 & Cloudflare Workers AI

Every emoji tool I could find did the same thing: let you pick from a fixed set of combos. Emoji Kitchen has 50K+ monthly visitors exactly because people love emoji combinations. But it's just a lookup table — Google pre-rendered ~40,000 combinations and serves them as static images. There's no AI, no creativity, no support for combinations that don't exist in the dataset. I wanted to build something different: type two emoji, get a brand-new AI-generated image that's never existed before, with