A Lnk.Bio alternative for people who build things

What Lnk.Bio does well

Lnk.Bio is a long-running link-in-bio tool with a free plan and low-cost paid options. It is easy to use and suits people who want a dependable list of links without paying much.

If your bio link is mainly a list of social profiles and content, Lnk.Bio is a reasonable, inexpensive pick.

It has been around for years, which counts for something in a category where tools come and go. A dependable, inexpensive link list is exactly what many people need, and Lnk.Bio provides it without fuss.

Projects, not just links

makerhandle is designed for makers, indie hackers and founders. Instead of a list of links, you add projects, each with a description, tags, a logo, a screenshot and a status: Active, Building, Acquired, On hold or Discontinued.

Choose from seven templates (Stack, Showcase, Bento, Minimal, Spotlight, Terminal or Studio). Each is designed to show off projects with screenshots, and none can be broken by your content: the layout stays tidy on phones and laptops. Setup takes about two minutes. See the indie hacker portfolio guide.

Verified revenue

makerhandle connects to Stripe with a read-only restricted key, or to Shopify with a read-only app that only has read_orders. It shows MRR or the last 30 days of revenue with a check mark, plus a revenue history chart: monthly from Stripe, daily from Shopify.

Verified projects can appear on the public leaderboard, with a verified-only filter. Revenue is always optional, and you can disconnect at any time.

Keys are checked before saving, encrypted at rest and never shown again.

Analytics without cookies

Every page gets analytics with no cookies and no stored IPs: visitors, pageviews, bounce rate, visit duration, sources and UTM campaigns, countries, regions and cities, devices, browsers and OS, project clicks and subscribes as goals, realtime visitors and a comparison with the previous period. Export to CSV or share an optional public stats page.

Add a subscribe box with double opt-in for your newsletter, or link a button to Substack, beehiiv, Kit, Buttondown or Mailchimp. See analytics.

Free covers 100 subscribers; Pro is unlimited.

Pricing and choosing

makerhandle is free for five projects, three templates, up to 100 subscribers and seven days of analytics. Pro is $20 a year: unlimited projects, all templates and the theme builder, a custom domain with SSL, unlimited subscribers, a year of analytics and no badge.

Choose Lnk.Bio for a simple, low-cost list of links. Choose makerhandle if you want your projects to look like a portfolio, with verified revenue and real analytics, in two minutes. See pricing.

No add-ons, no tiers to compare.