Documentation
Everything Biloou does, in the order you will meet it. No code, no configuration, nothing to install.
Last updated July 2026
What Biloou is
Biloou is a portfolio builder. You write about your work once, pick one of several neo-brutalist templates, and publish it at an address you can put on a CV. It is aimed at designers, artists, writers, students and freelancers people whose work needs to be looked at rather than described.
One account owns one portfolio. That is a deliberate limit, not a paywall: the whole product is one good page rather than a site builder.
There is no public API, no SDK and nothing to integrate. If you arrived here looking for an API gateway, you have the wrong Biloou.
Getting an account
Sign-in is through Google and nothing else. Press Continue with Google, choose an account, and you are in. There is no password to invent, no confirmation email to wait for, and no reset link to lose.
If this is your first visit, one question follows: your full name. It becomes the giant headline across the top of your portfolio, so it is worth a moment’s thought but you can change it whenever you like from Profile.
If you have been here before
Accounts made before Google sign-in existed still work. Sign in with a Google account carrying the same email address and the two link themselves the first time; everything you had is where you left it.
What we ask Google for
Three standard scopes and no more: openid, email
and profile. In plain terms who you are, your email
address, and your name. Biloou cannot read your mail, your files, your
calendar or your contacts, and it never asks for permission to.
The privacy policy sets out exactly
what is kept.
Filling in your portfolio
The dashboard splits your portfolio into pages so you are never staring at one enormous form. Fill them in any order; nothing is required before anything else, and everything saves independently.
| Page | What lives there |
|---|---|
| Profile | Your name, job title, location, availability, and the one-line tagline under the headline. |
| Story | The introduction paragraphs, your skills, the services you offer, and the links people should follow. |
| Projects | The work itself: title, year, category, a short blurb, tags, a picture and a link. |
| Experience | Roles and the places you held them, plus anything you were recognised for. |
| Photo | Your profile picture. Uploads are re-encoded on the way in, so nothing exotic is ever stored. |
| Design | Which template renders all of the above. |
| Publish | The switch that puts it online, and your public address. |
The dashboard’s front page keeps a checklist of what is still empty, so “is this finished?” has an answer that is not a guess.
The studio: moving things around
Text and pictures are one thing; where they sit is another. The studio is the visual editor: open your portfolio, and you can edit text in place, move pieces between zones, restack layers and change the palette without leaving the page you are looking at.
It needs JavaScript, which is the one place in Biloou that does. It works on a touchscreen, though a phone is a small place to arrange a page the form pages are the calmer way to work on one.
Templates
Every template renders the same content. That is the point: switching template changes the design and leaves your writing exactly where it was. Nothing is retyped and nothing is lost, so trying one costs you nothing but a click.
The gallery shows every template live, all rendering one sample portfolio, so the comparison is like for like. Pick one from Design in the dashboard.
The photobooth
The photobooth is the one page here that asks for nothing at all no account, no sign-in, no email address. Choose photographs off your own device, drop them into a strip, cover it in stickers, emoji, shapes and words, and save the result as a PNG.
Seven layouts, from the classic four-frame strip to a single wide frame, and switching between them keeps the pictures you have already placed. Each frame takes a filter and can be dragged about inside its own border to get the crop you wanted. Everything you put on top can be moved, resized, turned and stacked; arrow keys nudge, Delete removes, Ctrl + D duplicates and Ctrl + Z undoes.
Your pictures are read, decorated and saved by your own browser. They never reach our server, which means there is nothing here to store, nothing to leak and nothing to delete afterwards. It also means the strip is not saved anywhere for you download it before you close the tab, because closing the tab is what throws it away.
Importing from a CV
If a CV already says most of this, the dashboard can read it and fill your portfolio in from it. Upload a PDF and the text is sorted into the right fields for you to correct.
The text of your CV is sent to OpenAI so it can be sorted into fields including anything personal printed on it, such as your home address or telephone number. If that is not something you want to send, type the fields in by hand instead; nothing else in Biloou involves a third party.
The PDF itself is never written to disk. It is read in memory and gone when the page finishes.
Two more things worth knowing. Nothing is invented: fields your CV does not cover are left alone rather than filled with a plausible guess. And the copy of your portfolio from immediately before the import is kept as a single undo, so an import over an evening’s typing is recoverable. One undo, not version history the next import replaces it.
The feature only appears if the site has been given an OpenAI key, and there is a daily cap per account.
Publishing, and your address
A new portfolio is a draft. It is visible only to you until you publish it, and an unpublished address returns the same “not found” as one that never existed so nobody can go fishing for drafts.
Published, it lives at your own address, built from a slug you choose. You can unpublish at any time and nothing is deleted: the portfolio goes back to being a draft, whole, and you can put it up again whenever.
Your data, and getting out
What Biloou stores is your name, your email address, an opaque id for your Google account, and the portfolio you wrote. That is the whole list. The privacy policy goes through it field by field, including how long it is kept and how to have it deleted.
There is no analytics script, no advertising network and no tracker. The only cookies are the one that keeps you signed in and, if you asked for it, the one that remembers you on that device.
When something goes wrong
- Google says something about a redirect URI, or refuses to continue
- That is a configuration problem on our side, not yours. Email us and say what you saw.
- “That sign-in expired or was started somewhere else”
- A sign-in has ten minutes to finish, and it has to end in the browser it started in. Go back to the sign-in page and press the button again.
- “Your session expired or the form was submitted from somewhere else”
- A form sat open long enough for its session to lapse. Reload the page and submit it again.
- “New accounts are closed at the moment”
- Sign-ups have been switched off deliberately. Existing accounts are unaffected.
- You are signed out on every visit
- Tick Keep me signed in on this device. Without it the session ends with the browser.
- Anything else
- admin@biloou.com. A real person reads it.