Custom Domains for Portfolio Websites

Why custom domains matter for portfolio platforms

A portfolio at work.acme.com lands differently when a recruiter pastes it into Slack. It's a personal brand thing, and creatives feel it. Removing the friction to set up the domain is what gets the upgrade-to-paid conversion.

What your users get

• Portfolio at the creative's own domain
• Apex domain support: acme.com works
• TLS auto-issued, renewed forever

How it works in 3 steps

1. Your user types their hostname (work.acme.com) into your UI.
2. your portfolio platform POSTs to the Domainee API to register it and gets back the CNAME the user needs to add at their DNS provider.
3. We monitor DNS, issue the cert via Let's Encrypt, and webhook back when it's live. Usually about 60 seconds.

The code

curl -X POST https://api.domainee.dev/v1/domains \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DOMAINEE_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "hostname": "work.acme.com",
    "originUrl": "https://app.your-saas.com",
    "mode": "proxy",
    "redirectWww": true,
    "metadata": { "workspaceId": "your-internal-id" }
  }'

The response includes a dnsRecords array (usually one CNAME). Show that to your user, tell them to paste it at their DNS provider, and we'll handle the rest.

For the full walkthrough, see How to let users connect a custom domain to your SaaS.

Pricing

Your first 50 customer hostnames and 100 GB of bandwidth every month are free. After that: $0.20 per domain (graduated to $0.10 at scale), $0.05/GB above 400 GB. No monthly minimum, no contract, no sales call.