Portfo — Solving real-life challenges to get hired

Hey there, I'm Maks, creator of Portfo. We’ve officially wrapped up our MVP! If you are facing the issues below, then welcome to Portfo. As a company: - Messy test home tasks processing: - Sending Challenges: do you send them via email, a PDF, or a GitHub link? - Tracking Progress: do you manually update candidate statuses in spreadsheets and remind candidates to complete tasks? - Receiving Submissions: do you receive solutions via email attachments, repo links, zip files, or uploads? - Providing Feedback: do you have unstructured feedback and candidates complain you evaluate them unfairly? - Outdated ATS filter out relevant candidates and forces them to build dummy CVs As a candidate:

 - No portfolio: are you a seasoned specialist and don’t know how to build a portfolio? - Lack of real-world experience: are you a junior or recent graduate and can’t prove your skills without hands-on projects? As a mentor: - Proving Mentor Skills: don’t you know how to demonstrate your mentor skills? - Lack of Tools: are you ready to mentor others using real-life tasks but you don’t have a tool for that?

I’ll kick things off by sharing my thoughts on Portfo, the product I built and am proud to be the first user of! We’ve been using Portfo in our hiring process at CloudPay to evaluate coding skills - and honestly, it’s been a game-changer. Let me walk you through how it works and why I’m such a fan. During our interviews, we let candidates pick one of three options to showcase their skills: 1. Share existing projects 2. Take a home task 3. Live coding The live coding option is straightforward—a one-hour session to build something simple and show off testing skills. But the other two? That’s where Portfo really shines. Option 1: Share Existing Projects When candidates choose to share projects, they often just send a GitHub link. If they don’t specify which repos to review (and some have 30+ repos!), it’s a headache to figure out what’s relevant. With Portfo, candidates create an account, add only the projects they want us to review, and include descriptions. Problem solved. Option 2: Take a Home Task Here’s how we used to handle it: - I’d approve the candidate for a task. - The recruiter emailed them a GitHub repo link. - Candidates completed the task (or didn’t), sent the solution back (sometimes OMG as a zip file), and notified the recruiter. - The recruiter told me. - I’d review it, dig through emails for the repo, add my review, and the recruiter passed it back to the candidate. - If we moved forward, we’d schedule a technical interview and repeat the email scavenger hunt to find the solution. You get the idea - messy and inefficient. Now, with Portfo: - I approve the candidate and invite them directly through Portfo. Just enter their email - done. - I can track their progress (accepted the invite, started the challenge, completed it, etc.), and Portfo sends notifications at every step. - If there’s no action, Portfo will send reminders (the feature is coming soon). - Once they’re done, I get a notification, and Portfo automatically creates a project with everything in one place: the repo link, description, and, most importantly - evaluation criteria. - The review process is streamlined. I use the predefined criteria to ensure consistency (no more “I’ll just add this extra thing…”). - I accept or reject the solution with a click, and Portfo notifies the candidate. - If we move forward, I have the candidate’s full profile and solution right in Portfo - no inbox diving anymore. Portfo has made our hiring workflow smoother, more transparent, and way less chaotic. It’s built for users like me, and I’m thrilled to see it in action. Check it out, and let me know what you think!