01 · web portal development
Sign-up, profiles, posts, ratings, search and moderation on one fast portal. People come back on their own, and thousands of pages bring in search traffic
A city portal and a community of interest have different users and different reasons to come back. We build the structure around your audience
News, companies and professionals from one industry in one place. People come for business and stay if their peers are there
Everything about the city on one site: what opened, what happened, where to go. Traffic runs on fresh content and neighborhood pages
Forum, clubs and discussions. People stay for other members’ replies and their own reputation, not for editorial copy
Exhibitions, concerts, meetups and courses, filtered by date, venue and format. Every event gets its own page in search
People are choosing who to trust with a job. Honest reviews, a clear rating and protection from fake reviews make the call
A publication written by more than staff writers. Editors keep the quality up, readers follow the authors they care about
Six steps from the first visit to coming back without a search engine. At each one, the portal does its job
Every topic, company, event and neighborhood is its own page with its own title and description. People land right on the answer
Email, phone or social login. Sign-up is offered at the right moment: to reply, rate or save something
A profile, a forum thread, a review, an event or an article. An editor with photos and drafts that is easy to use on a phone
A filter catches spam and links, the rest goes to a moderator’s queue. If a post is sent back, the author sees the status and the reason
A reply, a new review, an approved post: a notification on the site, in Telegram or by email, whichever the user chose
Reputation, followed topics and authors, picks based on interests. People no longer come from search — they come because someone is waiting for them
A portal stays alive as long as it is easy to find what you need and see who replied to you. These parts work togetherinstead of being bolted on one by one
The portal includes: Site search, Ratings, Moderation, Notifications, Telegram, Email newsletters, Analytics, CDN
That is how we built Mafia.game, an international portal for the game of Mafia: club search, ratings, reviews and schedules, 474 partner clubs and the #1 spot worldwide by traffic. Another example is Expo Afisha, a business events catalog with event submission and moderation
More people means more load, more spam and more pages. We build this into the architecture from day one instead of fixing it after the first surge
A story goes viral or event registration opens — the site stays up. Pages are served from cache and a CDN, heavy jobs go to a queue
Rate limits, checks on new accounts, link and stop-word filters. Suspicious ratings never make it into the score
Moderator roles with different permissions, a content queue, a report button on every post and a log of decisions
Consent at sign-up, storage that complies with personal data protection laws, account deletion on request, and staff access only to what they need
Canonical URLs, filters and empty pages kept out of the index, and a sitemap that updates itself
Daily backups of the database and files, with tested restores. If something breaks, we roll back in hours instead of rebuilding the portal
The cost depends on scope. We send a detailed estimate the day after the brief and don't change it after kickoff unless the scope changes
Custom quote
8–10 weeks
Custom quote
12–16 weeks
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from 20 weeks
A one-hour call: who the users are, what they post and who reviews it. A couple of days later you get an estimate broken into stages
A clickable prototype of the key flows, then the design. Changes happen before development, not after
We show each stage on a staging site and sign it off. You pay stage by stage
Load testing, indexing and analytics setup, moderator training. A month of support is included
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Ask on TelegramUsers create the content
On a regular website the company writes and visitors read. On a portal people sign up, post, rate and reply to each other. That is why it needs sign-up, moderation, ratings, notifications and an architecture built for load and thousands of pages
We usually recommend Next.js with a custom admin
For a portal with lots of pages and users, custom development on Next.js is faster and needs no annual licenses or bending ready-made modules to fit. If your portal already runs on a CMS and you have a team maintaining it, we can extend it or migrate the users and posts
Yes, these are common requests
An education portal means student and teacher profiles, materials, discussions and notifications. A forum means topics, threads, reputation and moderation. Both are built from the same parts as any portal, set up around your rules
We build load into the architecture
Pages are served from cache and through a CDN, heavy operations run in the background. Before launch we run a load test at the volumes you expect and show you the results
We don’t promise numbers before launch
That depends on the topic, the content and the promotion. What we do promise is a search-friendly structure, fast performance and analytics with goals on sign-ups and posts, so you can see what works
Your moderators, with our tools
We set up roles with different permissions, a content queue, a spam filter and user reports. We train your moderators at launch. Some checks run automatically, and a person decides the borderline cases
The code is yours, hosting is your call
We hand the source code and all access over to the portal owner. We host it where users’ personal data is stored in line with the law, or on your own server
Tell us who the portal is for and what users will post there. We reply within two hours during business hours and send an estimate after the brief