Neat approach that gets the job done. I'm curious though what the benefit is of even using bio.link here at all? It is just a simple single page. Why not instead just create a repo in GitHub with the single page of links served from GitHub Pages and point your links subdomain at that with a CNAME record? [Or some other similar service like GitLab Pages].
I've already created a lot of links-in-bio pages in the past (some of them were super over-engineered, like edge-caching, redis and integrated admin dashboard), and I'm sure there are many bio-link open-source alternatives that reduce the entry barrier even further.
But I really like the convenience of changing the background image, having professionally-curated themes, repositioning links, not care about hosting or downtime, and since it's free, I really think I'd need a lot of good reasons to move away, but custom-domains aren't a good enough reason imo 🙃.
Btw, I used bio-link as an example of how it could be utilized, but I usually use this technique for websites like framer, that have a watermark on the page and a custom domain requires premium... Cloudflare workers solves both, without costing a penny 😃
That makes sense. At first glance, the bio.link looked nothing more than a single page with some links and photo. But I can see the benefit considering the themes and other functionality especially if already using.
Yep, totally! I really don't like parts of development like optimizing CSS for mobile layouts, so yeah, I guess existing solutions are good as long as they work well 😃
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Neat approach that gets the job done. I'm curious though what the benefit is of even using bio.link here at all? It is just a simple single page. Why not instead just create a repo in GitHub with the single page of links served from GitHub Pages and point your links subdomain at that with a CNAME record? [Or some other similar service like GitLab Pages].
Umm, this really boils down to convenience...
I've already created a lot of links-in-bio pages in the past (some of them were super over-engineered, like edge-caching, redis and integrated admin dashboard), and I'm sure there are many bio-link open-source alternatives that reduce the entry barrier even further.
But I really like the convenience of changing the background image, having professionally-curated themes, repositioning links, not care about hosting or downtime, and since it's free, I really think I'd need a lot of good reasons to move away, but custom-domains aren't a good enough reason imo 🙃.
Btw, I used bio-link as an example of how it could be utilized, but I usually use this technique for websites like framer, that have a watermark on the page and a custom domain requires premium... Cloudflare workers solves both, without costing a penny 😃
That makes sense. At first glance, the bio.link looked nothing more than a single page with some links and photo. But I can see the benefit considering the themes and other functionality especially if already using.
Yep, totally! I really don't like parts of development like optimizing CSS for mobile layouts, so yeah, I guess existing solutions are good as long as they work well 😃