One link for Social Bios: LinkinBios vs Bento like websites

I know we cant know about everything.

But the amount of close people that its trying to build something on social media, yet does not have a website still amazes me.

Why not giving a try to linktree, many.link…

Is it all about pricing?

Vendor lock up?

Then, lets have a look to solutions that will just require your time:

1. Using Static Site Generators, aka SSG’s (Advanced)
2. Keep it simple with containers and SelfHostable solutions

SSG Solutions for LinkInBios

Hugo example and Lynx Theme!

We can use HUGO SSG together with the Lynx Theme and have a quick Linktree alternative.

You dont really need anything to get started, as we can make this work with Github Pages.

Astro Link examples

1. https://github.com/nevthereal/linktree-template
2. https://astro.build/themes/details/ltree/
3. I covered portfolio links themes on this post

SSG LinkinBio with CMS

1. Astro + Tina

The long overdue topic of SSG + CMS… one day ill have to cover that up!

SelfHosted Solutions for LinkinBio

See these container config files:

1. Little Link: A lightweight DIY Linktree alternative.

• Deployable as static: https://github.com/sethcottle/littlelink?ref=noted.lol
• But also Selfhostable https://github.com/techno-tim/littlelink-server

Thanks to Noted.lol to cover Little Link

2. LinkStack - Selfhostable with this docker config. I covered this one here already.

• It has a cool UI to manage users: http://192.168.0.155/admin/config
• Each of them gets a different static path, like url.com/@user123
• Built in Link Analytics
• Cool themes working out of the box: https://linkstack.org/themes/
  • Just download them as .zip and upload them as admin
• Add also custom WebAn tools http://192.168.0.155/admin/config#2
• Allows for instance backups via UI http://192.168.0.155/admin/config#3

A simple to set up docker variant of LinkStack. LinkStack is a highly customizable link sharing platform with an intuitive, easy to use user interface.

Both are really light weight to use even on Raspberry Pis:

#htop
sudo docker stats linkstack
#sudo docker prune

See the results:

Bento Portfolio as LinkinBio Alternative

There is the possibility to use Bento Themes with Astro:

1. For example, this astro bento portfolio, which I used with Github Pages for the web3 sample blog:

You can also have a look to:

2. https://github.com/tim-hub/techtim-astro-bento-portfolio

I have forked this one here - https://github.com/JAlcocerT/techtim-astro-bento-portfolio

And you can use it by:

#https://github.com/tim-hub/techtim-astro-bento-portfolio
git clone https://github.com/JAlcocerT/techtim-astro-bento-portfolio
npm install

npm run dev
#npm run build
#rm -rf .git

Remember to tweak:

1. All content from /public and /src/content as per the original theme License
2. The index.astro file calls the individual components, like ../components/sections/AboutMe.astro

You can see a interesting working example

git ls-tree -r HEAD | grep f35b79d689c8cbc89c0fd03f04dd35d1aa198b6a

du -sh src/assets/memes/cable-rojo.gif

gifsicle --resize 480x480 --colors 64 --optimize=3 src/assets/memes/cable-rojo.gif -o src/assets/memes/cable-rojo-optimized.gif

Conclusions

Interesting Posts

1. https://darko.io/posts/but-auth-is-hard

Comercial bento

1. bento.me (owned by linktree)