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Prolanse
Client Portal & Project Management Software for Freelancers.
Manage clients, projects, invoices, files, and communication in one simple freelancer client portal. Prolanse helps freelancers work professionally and reduce project chaos.
My Co-founder was a freelancer (before we came up with Prolanse). He was working on his clients’ projects as he
used to. At any given time, he used to work on a maximum of 3 projects. But recently, he got 2 more opportunities that
he couldn’t refuse. He took those projects, and now he had 5 projects to work on, with 2 completely new projects that
he would be working on from scratch. He is a full-stack developer but mainly focused on frontend and sometimes
relied on AI for backend. But now, with the increase in work, he needed help. He asked me for a backend engineer to
design the backend for his projects. He started working on the projects, but as we progressed, our work got messy
and the communication with clients got messy as well. He used to manage his work manually with Google Docs,
spreadsheets, etc. As the work grew, our time got more stuck on managing the work rather than actually doing the
work. We lost productivity significantly. This led to chaos and extended project deadlines. Unfortunately, he lost 2 of
his clients.
The issue here was not that we didn’t have the skills for the project. If that was the case, we would have hired
someone or outsourced the project in the first place. The issue was managing multiple projects for multiple clients. I
talked in detail with my Co-founder about the problem, and he told me that we often faced these issues, and it killed
him, wasting so much productive and important time on managing work rather than doing it.
Hence, we decided to come up with something that would manage our projects and clients for us, and a freelancer
would only focus on developing the project. We wanted frictionless deliverables for our clients and no headaches for
us as well. We made the system and added a few features, but then we thought, why not make it public and let all
freelancers use it?
We wanted to make it completely free and open source, but we found out there would be huge server costs that we
would have to bear while scaling the product. So we communicated with a tech product advisor, and he strongly
recommended not making it open source and instead offering both free and subscription plans for users in order to
cover server expenses as well as the engineering costs required for adding new features and maintaining the
platform.
This is how we came up with Prolanse
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About Prolanse on Product Hunt
“Client Portal & Project Management Software for Freelancers.”
Prolanse was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #152 on the daily leaderboard. Manage clients, projects, invoices, files, and communication in one simple freelancer client portal. Prolanse helps freelancers work professionally and reduce project chaos.
Prolanse was featured in Task Management (84k followers), Freelance (31.2k followers) and SaaS (42.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 57.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Prolanse?
Prolanse was hunted by Abdul Shadaab. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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