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How I Built a Smarter Link-in-Bio Setup Without a Full Website

Most of us working on side projects or building in public hit a weird friction point early on:
You want to share your work—maybe your GitHub, blog, product demo, or buy-me-a-coffee page but platforms like X, Instagram, or TikTok only give you one link.

Link-in-bio tools fix that, but most of them feel like they were built for lifestyle influencers, not indie devs or technical creators. They’re bloated, closed, or weirdly expensive.

So I decided to rethink how I handled mine and what I ended up using saved me from building a whole separate landing page.

What I wanted from a dev-friendly bio link setup

  • Customizable but fast to set up
  • Clean, no bloat
  • Analytics I could actually use
  • Multiple pages under one account (for personal vs project profiles)
  • A way to share links across different audiences/platforms
  • Ideally, open to tracking by device or country

Carrd was close, but still required design effort.

What I landed on: Linkx.ee
I found Linkx.ee while browsing some creator tool lists. It checked the right boxes from a dev perspective:

  • No-code setup with the option to go deep if you want
  • Fast page loading
  • QR code generator (surprisingly useful at conferences or meetups)
  • Device- and geo-based link targeting
  • Works with webhooks and can plug into analytics pipelines
  • You can run multiple profiles (great if you want to separate open source from paid projects)

It also gave me a clean public-facing page without needing to spin up a static site or configure a reverse proxy. For side projects, MVPs, or just linking from your GitHub profile, it’s kind of perfect.

If you’re a developer who doesn’t want to manage yet another frontend just to share links to your work, a solid link-in-bio tool is surprisingly useful. And if you’re like me someone who likes performance, metrics, and clean interfaces you might want to skip the mainstream stuff and give Linkx.ee a try.

Linktree and Koji felt too influencer-y.

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