portfolo.app
I recently made portfolo.app to make, making a portfolio / markdown blog easy for everyone!
Just claim a unique URL for your page, select a template and theme and start adding your projects with the built in markdown editor!
It's free to have a play around with but if you want to deploy there is a yearly subscription!
I hope you all reaps the benefits!
Thanks, Jack!
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.
portfoliohq, tryportfolio, useportfolio, withportfolio etc.
Lot of money to be made catering to the latter.
Check the projects that are still there in 2 years, building a blogging platform is the developer's favorite hobby when they already have a todo list app.
* until you get DDoS or a lot of traffic
It seems like a better fit to have a one time purchase. And charge for upgrades or something.
In addition, using a credit card online is much much easier than using github. Particularly for non-developers.
I think whenever possible, a one time fee is easier on users.
I want the world to have good products that are for lots of people.
Having lame things that are rent-seeking with no functional benefit is not good. Saying “it’s only for idiots, not for everyone” isn’t very constructive.
I’d rather people make products that are efficient and equally beneficial for creator and user. Not to exploit every drop of value from users that they can without making users quit.