makerhandle vs Beacons

What Beacons does well

Beacons is an all-in-one platform for creators. Alongside a link-in-bio page it offers an online store for digital products, a media kit for brand deals, email marketing and AI tools that help with things like product descriptions and outreach.

If you are a creator who sells digital products and works with brands, having all of that in one place is genuinely useful, and Beacons is a strong choice.

Its strength is breadth: one login for selling, pitching brands and emailing fans, which saves creators from stitching several tools together.

Simplicity for makers

If you build software, stores or hardware, most of a creator platform is not for you. makerhandle does one thing: shows your projects.

You add each project with a name, description, link, tags, status and a screenshot, then pick one of seven templates (Stack, Showcase, Bento, Minimal, Spotlight, Terminal or Studio). The templates are hard to break and look right on phones and laptops. Setup takes about two minutes, and there is not much to configure after that, which is the point.

Proof instead of a media kit

A creator's proof is audience size. A maker's proof is a product that works and earns. makerhandle reads revenue straight from Stripe (a read-only restricted key) or Shopify (a read-only app) and shows it with a check mark, plus a revenue history chart. Verified projects can appear on the public leaderboard.

Every project also has a status, Active, Building, Acquired, On hold or Discontinued, so visitors see your whole track record. See verified revenue.

Revenue is always optional, and you can disconnect at any time.

Analytics and subscribers, without the bloat

makerhandle includes cookie-free analytics with no stored IPs: visitors, pageviews, bounce rate, visit duration, sources and UTM campaigns, countries, regions and cities, devices, project clicks and subscribes as goals, realtime and CSV export.

For an audience, there is a subscribe box with double opt-in and CSV export, or a button to Substack, beehiiv, Kit, Buttondown or Mailchimp. Free covers up to 100 subscribers; Pro is unlimited. Pro is $20 a year, flat. See pricing.

There are no tiers to compare and no add-ons to buy.

Which should you pick?

Pick Beacons if you are a creator who wants a store, media kit and email marketing in one platform.

Pick makerhandle if you are a maker or founder and want a clean page for your projects, with verified revenue and private analytics, that takes two minutes to set up and costs $20 a year.

If you sell digital products through Beacons and build software on the side, you can use both and link one from the other. Read best link in bio for founders in 2026 for more options.