Links for Artists

Tl;DR

Artists, artists…

Thats what social media has made us believe we are

All while we place the head of a pig in the public, while we actually sell dogs.

Intro

If you are not a data professional, but a creative professional, like a music creator…

Creating Music with AI Post

DIY music? or with 11labs we can create music

You will need to let the world know about your work/brand and where to find it.

That might be the thought of someone still trying to sell to the B2C world.

As of today, im not sure if selling to 9-5 ,grey’ people is the best niche though

I made couple of posts about ssg themes for links:

LinkinBio with Astro

Links with astro-link-in-bio-theme - FinanceInMotion FYI

Links with HUGO LYNX Theme

Collection of important Links on Github Pages

• https://linktr.ee/lynnic

• https://www.youtube.com/@lynnic/featured

• https://indiepa.ge/charlieclark

• https://github.com/charlieclark

• https://www.liinks.co/?ref=indiepage_leaderboard

Which is validated to have done 1M+ https://indiepa.ge/leaderboard as of the time of writing

• https://www.liinks.co/i/plans
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqah6bDkSxs
• https://blog.liinks.co/link-in-bio-monetization-strategies-unlocking-new-revenue-streams-for-creators

But recently I found about:

• https://github.com/francosuarez-dev/artistree

MIT | Link in Bio Page for Artists 🎶

Conclusions

Examples of Portfolio Links websites?

• https://peladonerd.com/
• https://jalcocert.github.io/Portfolio - Deployed statically via GH Pages completely free!

More competitors on the Saas Link Website domain:

• Taplink
• bento.me A comercial bento link website, owned by linktree
• https://getallmylinks.com/
• https://subscribepage.io/listy#

You wont probably need session recording for such sites.

But after the mandatory web validation:

#sudo apt-get install dnsutils -y #dns resolution
nslookup github.com 
dig google.com

curl -s -o /dev/null -w "dns_lookup: %{time_namelookup}s connect: %{time_connect}s appconnect: %{time_appconnect}s pretransfer: %{time_pretransfer}s starttransfer: %{time_starttransfer}s ---------- total: %{time_total}s http_code: %{http_code}" https://blog.jalcocertech.com

You will want to know how it performs:

SaaS around Links

• More competitors
  • Taplink
  • bento.me
  • https://getallmylinks.com/
  • https://subscribepage.io/listy#
  • https://linke.ro/

OSS Links Web Profiles

What Links to show?

Because…

You have something more to show that social media apps…right?

Here you have some ideas with projects that I have been publishing about before.

Also, you can plug Web Analytics or Link Analytics to your links.

Waiting List for Products

I first built a Waiting2Landing: Two Astro Themes working together

First the waiting list theme captures leads via formbricks, then, changing to an agency landing page:

Astros WaitingToLanding

POST of Waiting2Landing with 2 Astro Themes

Waiting to Landing Repo

Two Astro Themes + Formbricks to capture emails

For now, this is a page with 1 ebook:

DIY Website eBook

JAlcocerTech DIY Series | Ebook to create a Website for your brand

That should allow you to build DIY websites for your brand, as I have been doing

The Waiting2Landing v2 PB Post

I tinkered here more with CSR and linkhub than actually building the waiting2landing v2 with PB instead of formbricks as per v1

NEW repository - Simple Waiting List

NextJS + CapJS = Working Waiting list to CSV with no external APIs

Landing Page for your SaaS

After the waiting list and checking PMF, comes building time.

For which you should have a cool Landing Page.

eBooks Pages

Some People sell information via ebooks, why dont you do that?

In case you didnt know, creating an ebook as a code is not that hard:

https://jalcocert.github.io/JAlcocerT/cool-ebooks/

NEW Sell your eBook

Source Code on Github. Astro SSG Theme (x) Stripe (x) N8N

Additionally to the base theme: https://github.com/candidosales/landing-page-book-astro-tailwind

There are other cool ones like:

• https://github.com/understanding-astro/understanding-astro-book

Obfuscated web/book pages

It all started here while testing how to create AI driven ebooks on this repo: initially with RMD.

Creating and Publishing PDF eBooks

Download the ebook or read it via webpage when conditions are met

Obfuscate web and ebook Repo

ebooks creation as a code + fastapi obfuscation + modern web page

Now I have my ,webook’ published: https://diy.jalcocertech.com thanks to that repo!

Will soon be something more than one ebook :)

Calendars

Something that looks really professional is to provide your availability.

As you are a cool creator, you will have a lot of demand:

Tech Consulting

Let’s discuss your tech needs

I have added few shortcodes/components:

Just SSG

Source Code for SSG Components

So you can also embed your whatsap bouble

You can also bring your MailerLite subscription link:

Photo Galleries

Last time I wrote about Photo Galleries was here.

Real Esate Photo Gallery

Applied the Astro photo Gallery component for the real estate landing

Photo Gallery Blog

Made with HUGO and Photo centered

Podcasts

By this time, you have a lot of audience: you are an artist!

So having one of the links pointing to your podcast platform is very simple.

Tech for Podcasts

Creating a serverless Astro Podcast that can be selfhosted with containers

Astropod Repo

Forked and Tweaked Astro Podcast Theme that works on CF Pages

This is how to do it step by step:

You can also use Gatsby SSG for Podcasting!

See how to bring audio via Hugo components as seen here

What we say vs what we do

• Stated Preference (What they say): Based on hypothetical questions. It captures what users claim they would choose.
• Revealed Preference (What they do): Based on actual behavior. It captures true preferences through real-world actions and choices.

La preferencia anunciada o preferencia declarada es un método para conocer las preferencias de los usuarios basado en lo que ellos dicen que elegirían en situaciones hipotéticas o que no han experimentado en la realidad.

Es muy utilizada en economía para anticipar cómo los consumidores podrían reaccionar ante nuevas opciones que aún no existen en el mercado. Por ejemplo, se puede preguntar a una persona qué opciones preferiría en un producto nuevo o servicio que no ha probado.[1]

Por otro lado, la preferencia revelada se basa en observar el comportamiento real de consumo del usuario, es decir, en las decisiones y elecciones efectivas que hace en la vida cotidiana.

La teoría de la preferencia revelada sostiene que las preferencias de los consumidores se pueden deducir de sus hábitos de compra reales, ya que el hecho de elegir un bien sobre otro revela cuál prefieren realmente bajo las restricciones de su presupuesto.

Esto implica que las preferencias se infieren a partir de las elecciones efectivas, no de declaraciones hipotéticas.[2]

Vibe Coding is…old?

People seem to be moving from vibe coding to…sth new: spec driven development they call it.

And these are some tools:

• https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec

MIT | Spec-driven development for AI coding assistants.

• https://github.com/github/spec-kit

MIT | 💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development

• https://github.com/kirodotdev/Kiro

Kiro is an agentic IDE that works alongside you from prototype to production.

About Web Development

Not sure how much better spec driven dev is.

But for sure that as of today you dont need to now TS, neither JavaScript nor CSS to create and publish a good looking and simple static website.

I recently tried NuxtJS here.

Just SSG

Source Code for SSG Components

FAQ

SelfHostable Links

1. Lynx. But not the Lynx HUGO Theme.

• https://github.com/paoloronco/Lynx

MIT | Lynx is an open-source, self-hosted link manager that helps you gather all your digital touchpoints in a single page, with secure authentication and a fully customizable design.

2. LinkStack. As seen here and here

SelfHosted WebAnalytics

If the cloudflare web analytics is not enough for you:

Every time I read the selfh.st newsletter I find a new web analytics tool trying to replace Umami.

• https://github.com/seuros/kaunta

Privacy-focused analytics engine written in Go

• https://github.com/electerious/Ackee

But imo, Umami should be one of those HomeLab essentials tools to consider.

https://jalcocert.github.io/JAlcocerT/using-stripe-with-flask/#adding-umami-web-analytics-to-flask

Better web Analytics from 0525

Post views distribution

Litlyx Repo

How Litlyx web analytics looks

Litlyx Post Views Distribution

How could this not relate with Pareto?

Powerful Analytics Solution. Setup in 30 seconds. Display all your data on a Simple, AI-powered dashboard.

Fully self-hostable and GDPR compliant. Alternative to Google Analytics, MixPanel, Plausible, Umami & Matomo.

See also:

1. https://github.com/abegehr/chickadee

Simple, privacy-focused web analytics you can self-host on Cloudflare.

2. https://github.com/benvinegar/counterscale

Scalable web analytics you run yourself on Cloudflare

3. Dashflare - https://github.com/jorgelbg/dashflare

🕵🏼‍♀️ Open Source and privacy-focused analytics solution. 📊 Advanced monitoring for your website behind Cloudflare

Link Analytics

Some selfhosted url shorteners will bring you analytics and QR as well.

See https://github.com/738/awesome-url-shortener?tab=readme-ov-file#self-hosting-opensource

Link analytics solutions, like Kutt: https://kutt.it/

You can always check what is the shortened link pointing with:

curl -sIL https://youtu.be/sGUjmyfof4Q?t=568  | grep location:

Many more will be coming, like https://github.com/alexcastrodev/shortener

For the QR part, you know that we have few solutions…

1. https://github.com/JAlcocerT/Streamlit_PoC/blob/main/Utils/QR_Gen.py

2. 

There are several open-source self-hostable link shortener tools you can consider, each with its unique features:

1. Shlink: A PHP-based link shortener that supports generating unique short codes or custom slugs. It collects anonymized visit stats and geolocates visitors. It offers a REST API, CLI tools, and Docker support for easy deployment. It uses modern technologies like Mezzio and Symfony and is MIT licensed.[1][3]

2. Kutt: A modern, free, and open-source URL shortener with features like custom domains, custom URLs, password protection, link expiration, private statistics, and an admin dashboard. It has a RESTful API and can be easily installed using Docker Compose.[5]

3. YOURLS: A well-established PHP-based URL shortener with features such as bookmarklets, developer API, detailed stats including referrers and geo-location, and extensibility through dozens of plugins. It is free, open source, and easy to self-host.[10]

4. Shrink.io (shrtn.io): A lightweight, privacy-focused URL shortener using SQLite by default (so no database server is required) and deployable via Docker. It emphasizes ease of use, privacy, and developer-friendly features.[6]

5. Other notable mentions from a curated list include Polr, Lstu, Blink, and goshorly—all open source with various programming languages and features.[4][8]

These options provide scalable, customizable, and self-hostable link shortening solutions that you can deploy either via Docker or direct installation depending on your infrastructure and preferences.

For ease and feature richness, Shlink, Kutt, and YOURLS are highly recommended starting points for a self-hosted URL shortener.

Among the popular open-source self-hosted link shorteners mentioned, some do offer QR code capabilities either built-in or through extensions/plugins:

1. Shlink: Provides built-in QR code generation for short URLs. When you create a short URL using Shlink, it can generate a corresponding QR code that you can share or embed. This is part of its feature set, making it convenient for print or mobile scanning use cases.[1][2]

2. Kutt: While Kutt does not include native QR code generation in its core, there are third-party tools or browser extensions available that can generate QR codes for any URL, including Kutt short links. Some community forks or plugins might add this feature. Officially, out-of-the-box QR codes are not a core feature.[3]

3. YOURLS: YOURLS does not include native QR code generation by default, but there are several plugins created by the community that add QR code functionality to YOURLS short URLs. This extensibility allows you to add QR generation if needed.[4]

4. Other lesser-known tools like Blink or Polr may have QR features built-in or via plugins, but the top three mentioned mostly rely on either built-in Shlink support or plugins for YOURLS for QR capabilities.[5][6]

To summarize, Shlink stands out as the self-hosted URL shortener with built-in QR code generation.

For YOURLS, you can enable QR codes through community-developed plugins, while Kutt typically requires external QR code tools.

This makes Shlink a strong candidate if QR code functionality is a priority alongside link shortening.