
I built a client portal for freelancers because email chaos was killing my projects
I'm a freelancer myself and the same problem kept coming up with every client: Clients opening the wrong file version and giving feedback on outdated work Project updates buried in 50-email threads Sending WeTransfer links that expire Clients not knowing what's done and what's pending Big companies have Jira, Asana, all that. But photographers, designers, small independents? Nothing that's actually made for them — everything is either too complex or too expensive. So I built projektraum.io — a simple client portal tool made for freelancers like us. What it does You create a portal for each client, share a link (no account needed on their side), and they get: A task board showing project progress File sharing — upload and download directly in the portal A direct chat — no more email back and forth Their own branded view with your logo and colors (Pro) Tech stack Next.js 14 (App Router) Supabase (Auth, DB, Realtime, Storage) Stripe (Billing) Resend (Email notifications) Coolify on Hetzne
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