docs: add release notes for v1.0.0

Author: yousefkotp

docs/release-notes/v1.0.0.md

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+title: Local Leads Finder v1.0.0
+description: Release notes for Local Leads Finder v1.0.0
+---
+
+# Local Leads Finder v1.0.0
+
+## 🚀 Highlights
+
+- Added search-engine friendly metadata, Open Graph sharing tags, and FAQ structured data to the app shell.
+- Introduced a dynamic country selector covering 200+ ISO codes and refreshed statistics to reflect the broader coverage.
+- Implemented on-demand marketing sections (Features, Use Cases, Insights) that reveal when linked from the navbar.
+- Served `robots.txt` and `sitemap.xml` endpoints so crawlers can index deployments cleanly.
+- Added a favicon, nav/footer links, and scroll-to-section behaviour for a more polished UX.
+
+## 🧪 Quality & Tooling
+
+- Set up automated CI to compile Python sources, run pytest, and tolerate empty test suites.
+- Added a release workflow that publishes tagged builds to PyPI with `python -m build` and `twine`.
+- Created GitHub issue templates for bug reports and feature requests to streamline community feedback.
+
+## 📦 Packaging
+
+- Prepared the repository for distribution and automated uploads to PyPI on `v*` tags.
+- Added structured release notes to guide future changelog updates.
+
+## 🚨 Breaking Changes
+
+- None. This is the first tagged release.
+
+## ✅ Upgrade Notes
+
+1. Pull the latest `main`.
+2. Install/update dependencies: `pip install -r requirements.txt`.
+3. If consuming via PyPI, install with `pip install local-leads-finder`.
+
+## 🔜 Next Steps
+
+- Expand test coverage alongside the new workflows.
+- Document additional usage examples and API integrations.