mydevportfol.io
A portofolio site generator for developers and programmers
To help developers and programmers showcase their work quickly, easily and effectively
Makeover!
The previous "steps" UX meant that someone could spend a few minutes inputting data to a form and not seeing anything happen.
With the update I pushed last night, users now get directed straight to a /build page, where every change they make is reflected straight away in their portfolio. I think this is much more engaging and should lead to a higher conversion rate.
I also took this opportunity to move away from the dark theme and go for a lighter background. Overall I'm much happier with the new design and layout. Now to see how the customers/visitors feel...
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Price bump - and another sale
So the cheapest option I had on the site was $5 for a website, which cashed out to about €3.70 after conversion and Stripe's cut. So I bumped the price. A week later and we've another sale.... amazing.
I still don't know enough about my customers, but the small sales are amazing, they're the seeds of success, just gotta keep watering them with consistent improvements to the app!
Added portfolio designs to homepage
This is something that was obvious from the start, but hadn't got round to. Now when a user lands on the homepage, they can see the designs that are available (only two for now).
I borrowed heavily from the layout and design of pages.xyz for this, and it made the work a lot quicker since I didn't have too many design decisions to make.
Coincidentally (or not) I got a sale a few hours after deploying this change, and then two more in the following days. :)
Added stripe data to my profile.
The whole transparency thing is still difficult for me to do, but I'm going for it after a recent IH post shared how they got 300 users from writing about their moderate success so far. Worth a try!
Second sale!
Really annoying how I don't know who it was or why they purchased. Only a few days after the first sale and I haven't changed anything. Not knowing is killing me. I reached out to this customer as their email was in stripe but no word back yet. I need some better customer flow so that I can capture some info about them after their purchase.
First Sale!
I got my first sale of a portfolio! I had left this project on the backburner for a long time, and this has inspired me to set up this Indiehackers profile and get some work done to fix the bugs and expand the features