First public push
The website has been online for about a week and ive had 0 traction im honestly looking for people to give me brutal and honest feedback.
ps: if you did go on and check the website the payments are in crypto (USDT) as i couldnt configure stripe or any other payment processor and that is because of regional restrictions on my country and global payments so my workaround was to use crypto which is an inconvenience to lots of people and will surely lose me lots of potential customers but this is just me explaining why portly is this way, until i have enough revenue i will most likely register for an LCC (which is very costly and i do not have the budget for that)
Lots of appreciation to anyone who would contribute to the building of this project.
Zero traction after a week doesn't tell you much by itself.
The more useful question is whether visitors are leaving because they don't trust the product or because they don't immediately understand why it's worth changing what they're already doing. Those lead to completely different next steps, and I'd try to separate them before changing anything else.
im still trying to get more feedback if you could help and share my website with freelancers who are looking for a similair tool and give me their feedback that would help alot
Happy to help where I can.
Before sending more people to it, your reply made me think there's one strategic assumption worth pressure-testing first. If that assumption is wrong, more feedback can end up creating more noise than clarity.
I don't think I can explain the reasoning properly in a thread without oversimplifying it.
If you're interested, what's the best email to reach you on?
contact me on mohamed.n.naas@gmail{dot}com
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Handling payments in USDT because of regional restrictions is a real constraint a lot of people don't talk about openly, that's its own kind of distribution tax before growth even starts. The point about giving people a reason to recommend it by name is the sharper problem though, "crowded market" is usually an excuse, the real question is whether anyone would specifically think of you when someone asks what to use.
The crypto payments part actually stood out because it makes the launch feel very real. You're shipping around the constraints instead of waiting for perfect conditions.
I kept picturing a freelancer asking ChatGPT something like "what's the simplest client portal I can start using today" and landing on Portly before they've ever heard the name. In that moment they're mostly trying to figure out if this feels like something built by someone who understands freelance work or just another generic tool.
I'm curious if you've noticed anyone talking about Portly in terms of the freelancer problem first instead of the payment limitation.
i honestly made a post on reddit and what they mentioned was that there were lots of project management apps and tools for freelancers available so i thought i should get more insights from people and what they think about my product, at first when i read the feedback it felt like a major drawback, but then i stood on my feet again because as long as i want to make this work out then it will surely work out
The crowded market part is interesting because I don't think that's the hardest problem. The harder one is giving people—and increasingly AI assistants—a reason to mention Portly in the first place. If someone asks ChatGPT or another AI for a freelancer client portal today, what signals exist that make Portly show up instead of tools people already know? That's the kind of challenge I'd be thinking about early.