Liinks - minimalistic link in bio page
Introducing liinks.xyz - a site for designing minimalistic links in bio page.
A few months ago, I found myself in a situation where I needed to quickly design a page with a few lines of text and a few link buttons to a different webpage. I hoped to link to this page using a permalink from another website.
I immediately went to a few "Link in Bio" services but quickly got demotivated due to the need for registration and lack of minimalism. I then embarked on a weekend-long journey to see how much work was needed to design something good enough as a link in bio page designer and not so complex that it needs registration.
The result was a single index.html file that can render a short webpage without storing anything in the server. This is done by storing the data in the link that is shared and most importantly no registration is required. View an example of this post as a liinks.xyz page. The link is 980 characters long, but this is not a problem for most cases (eg. Twitter, Facebook etc.)
The body is written using markdown, and adding some colour to personalise the page is possible.
Finally, if you need a short URL - this is possible too.
https://liinks.xyz/i/1efc573e31You will notice it takes a few seconds to generate short-links. This is Cloudflare Turnstile checking the request to protect against abuse.
The tech stack is Cloudflare (static) Page, Function and R2 for storage.