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July 9th, 2024

Show HN: I made a simple Markdown blog creator

Portfolo.app simplifies portfolio creation with markdown, themes, and templates. Users highlight projects effortlessly, emphasizing simplicity to save time. Feedback shapes platform development. Free trial available, followed by a one-time yearly payment for full access.

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Show HN: I made a simple Markdown blog creator

Portfolo.app is a platform that allows users to effortlessly create portfolios and add projects using markdown. Described as "The Headache Free Portfolio Creator," it requires zero coding skills and offers customization through themes and templates. Users can easily showcase their work by creating projects with a click of a button and utilizing markdown capabilities. The platform emphasizes simplicity to save time on implementation, enabling users to focus on their work. Portfolo.app aims to help individuals stand out to clients and employers by providing a simple and functional site for showcasing projects. Users can submit feedback to shape the future development of the platform. A trial portfolio is available for free before opting for a one-time payment for a year of benefits, including access to all features and upcoming updates. Payments are processed through stripe.com, and the platform offers a range of currencies for convenience.

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By @rekabis - 5 months
IMHO your domain name is a confusable that will make many people think it’s offline if they try to manually type in that domain name - because even I typed in portfolio dot app, and not portfolo dot app. And portfolio.app doesn’t lead anywhere - the owner of that domain name hasn’t stood anything up.

And while this product may appeal to many, IMHO most technical people are going to want to self-host in some fashion in order to avoid the issue of niche/boutique SAAS products being suddenly discontinued by their creators.

I certainly don’t touch the vast majority of SAAS products unless it has a significant commercial backing behind it, and even then I try to avoid SAAS as much as possible for philosophical reasons: if I can’t control it, I can’t depend on it.

By @FilipPanoski - 5 months
Seems that the target audience for this are non-technical people? Since I am a developer I am more interested in a CMS tool like https://decapcms.org/ that is open source and I can integrate within my app. Perhaps it'd be useful to you to check it out!
By @efilife - 5 months
And as always, it's paid. How many blogging platforms did we have this week? 4? 5? This really must be the way of milking money
By @byearthithatius - 4 months
The only testimonial is by the Founder and you're posting this on a website where the vast majority know how cheap/easy it is to host a static website. For instance this is free from GitHub and cheaper than your price from Netlify.
By @LordShredda - 4 months
You're posting on HN, everyone here knows how to setup apache. I'd suggest you target less technically inclined people or offer more features than github pages. Honestly, just having an easier way to publish than github pages would be a good idea
By @prepend - 5 months
Why is this a subscription? Are there ongoing costs? It seems like you just have generation software that would run for free on GitHub or whatever.

It seems like a better fit to have a one time purchase. And charge for upgrades or something.

By @8mobile - 5 months
Hi, I like your markdown blog project, it's simple but the graphics are a bit too rough. I advise you to also include a free plan, at least the user has the opportunity to try it. Nice start
By @rmdes - 4 months
it's a cool thing, but make it one time subscription, self-hosted, Docker, k8s, whatever else.. even a binary and I would pay for it, at least once. but I'm never going to deploy my blog on your stuff, that's for sure. also.. have you considered adding a few bricks of the indieweb.org / indiewebify etc..?
By @AlexDragusin - 4 months
Might wan tto check, the LinkedIn link goes to 404.