A Notion portfolio vs makerhandle

Why people use Notion as a portfolio

It is right there. You already write in Notion, publishing a page takes one click, and you can structure it however you like with databases and toggles. For a quick list of projects to send someone, it is hard to beat.

Notion Sites also lets you put a page on your own domain. According to Notion's help center, that is a paid add-on: $10 a month per domain, or $8 a month with annual billing, on top of a paid Notion plan.

Where it falls short

• Weight. A published Notion page loads Notion's app code, which is a lot for a page that lists a few projects. People have long complained about slow mobile load times.
• Layout. You design the page yourself, and what looks tidy on a laptop can look cramped on a phone.
• No numbers. There is no built-in way to show verified revenue or see which project people clicked.
• Cost of a domain. $8 to $10 a month just to use your own domain adds up to around $96 to $120 a year.

What makerhandle gives you instead

makerhandle is a finished maker page. Add projects with a status, description, tags and screenshot, pick one of seven templates, and the layout is done on every screen size. Pages run on Cloudflare's edge network and stay light.

You also get verified revenue from Stripe or Shopify, a public leaderboard, an email subscribe box, and analytics with sources, UTM campaigns, devices and project clicks, with no cookies.

Your domain for $20 a year

makerhandle Pro is $20 a year, total, and includes a custom domain with SSL issued and renewed automatically, plus unlimited projects, every template, the theme builder, a year of analytics and no badge.

Keep Notion for your notes, docs or a public roadmap, and link to them as projects. See also makerhandle vs Super, which turns Notion pages into websites.