SHOWCASE
YOUR
WORK
Update your portfolio's case studies, project pages, and blog posts through a visual editor, without opening VS Code. Your files stay in GitHub. No database, no CMS vendor to depend on.
START FREEThe Problem
Portfolios Go Stale Because Editing Is Annoying
How Most Portfolio Sites Are Built
Freelance designers and developers typically build their portfolio on Astro, Next.js, or 11ty. The site is static, fast, cheap to host (often free on Vercel or Netlify), and looks exactly how they want it. Content is stored as markdown files in a GitHub repository. The setup is clean and the hosting is nearly free.
Why It Gets Neglected
Updating a portfolio means opening VS Code, navigating to the right file, editing frontmatter and markdown by hand, running the dev server to preview the change, committing, and pushing to trigger a new deployment. For a developer, this is not a big deal. But after finishing a client project and wanting to add it to the portfolio quickly, the friction is real. Most developers put off updating their portfolio for weeks, then months.
What md0 Changes
md0 CMS connects to your existing GitHub portfolio repository and adds a clean browser-based editor on top of your markdown files. Open the browser, select the project you want to add, fill in the fields, write the case study, upload the screenshots, and save. The commit goes to GitHub and your deployment pipeline picks it up. Your site is updated in a couple of minutes, not a couple of hours.
Portfolio Content Types
Portfolio sites mix several different content types. md0 handles all of them through separate collections, each with its own schema.
PROJECT CASE STUDIES
Markdown files with title, date, client, tech stack, tags, featured image, and a detailed writeup of the problem and solution. The most important content in any portfolio.
BLOG POSTS
Writing about your process, learnings, or opinions. Standard markdown/MDX posts with date, title, excerpt, and category. Same setup as any other blog.
STATIC PAGES
About, contact, services, rates. These pages change infrequently but you want a clean way to update them when rates change or you add a new service.
IMAGE GALLERIES
Upload images directly to GitHub via md0. Drag a screenshot or design mockup into the editor and it lands in your repo under a path like public/images/projects/.
Feature Breakdown
What md0 Does for Your Portfolio
Visual Editor for Case Studies
Case studies are long-form content: problem description, approach, results, images, and lessons learned. Writing this in a code editor with raw markdown means constant context switching between the editor and a preview window. md0's visual editor shows the formatted output as you write, the same way a document tool does.
Schema for Project Metadata
Define the frontmatter fields your portfolio template expects: title,client, year,tech, role,url, featured,category. md0 renders these as a form. You fill in the fields instead of typing raw YAML. Consistent frontmatter across every project entry.
Image Uploads Straight to GitHub
Drag a project screenshot or mockup image into the md0 editor. md0 uploads it to your repository under a path like public/images/projects/ and inserts the markdown image reference at the cursor. Your static site serves the image from GitHub without any third-party image hosting. Client screenshots stay in your own repository.
No Change to Your Site's Frontend
md0 does not touch your portfolio's design, routing, or rendering. If Astro reads markdown files fromsrc/content/projects/, md0 writes to that same directory. Your templates continue to render the files exactly as they always have. There is no md0-specific code in your portfolio's frontend; you could disconnect md0 at any point and nothing about your site changes.
History of Every Change
Every save in md0 creates a GitHub commit. If you rewrite a case study and want to go back to the previous version, the Git history has it. If you want to see what your "About" page said six months ago, the commit log shows you. This is a property of the Git-native approach, with no extra backup system needed.
Example Setup
A Typical Portfolio Schema
titletext (required)clienttextyearnumbertecharraydescriptiontextarearoletexturltextfeaturedbooleanthumbnailimagecategoryselect: web / mobile / design / open-sourceBuild this schema once in the md0 schema builder. Every new project entry starts with these fields pre-populated as a form. No more hand-typing frontmatter for each new project.
Audience
Who This Is For
FREELANCE DESIGNERS AND DEVELOPERS
You built your own portfolio because you wanted full control over the design. Now you want a better way to add new work without opening VS Code every time. md0 gives you a clean editor without sacrificing any control over the frontend.
DEVELOPERS WHO HIRE WRITERS FOR THEIR BLOG
Your portfolio includes a blog and you want a writer to contribute posts. The writer does not know markdown or Git. md0 gives the writer a familiar document-style interface while everything stays in your existing repository.
STUDENTS AND EARLY-CAREER DEVELOPERS
You built a portfolio to show off projects during a job search. You want to add new projects and update existing ones quickly. md0 removes the overhead of the Git workflow when all you want to do is write about a project you finished.
Why Git for Portfolios
VERSION CONTROL
Every change to every project description is a commit. If you rewrite a case study and want the old version back, Git has it. No separate backup needed.
NO LOCK-IN
Your content is markdown in your own GitHub repository. Switch from Astro to Next.js, change hosting providers, or completely redesign the site. The content files stay exactly where they are.
FAST SITES
Static portfolios built with Astro, Next.js, or 11ty generate HTML at build time and serve from a CDN. Page loads are near-instant. The kind of performance that makes a good impression.
FREE HOSTING
Vercel and Netlify offer free tiers for static sites. GitHub Pages is free for public repositories. A Git-native portfolio costs almost nothing to host, leaving your budget for the work itself.