Linkbout is live! after more months than I like to admit, I have built a link curation, management, and exploration tool.

After months of development and plenty of breaks in between, I am thrilled to launch Linkbout. An all-in-one link management, collection, and exploration tool that can also act as your link-in-bio tool.

**Why did I build it?**

* I was going through my Instagram feed, saw an interesting product, and in the caption, it was mentioned to click on 'link in bio' I opened that link, and voila, there was my product. Just kidding, there were hundreds of those links, and no searching. Then I thought, there must be some service that solves this, and yes, there were a few, but they were either pricy or not so good, or you have to find that particular Instagram post and click on it. Then, it hit me, I could make something that solves this problem. And anyway, I wanted to make a product, and now I have the problem statement. And that's the main reason I started it.
* So while building it, I thought, at the end of the day, I am building a link in bio tool, so I have to give users the ability to customize their profile, so I added full-fledged profile customization. That was a bit tricky to develop, but it was fun. Then I thought, what if users want to group some of their links? How will they manage it? So I added functionality to group the links. But then I thought why not separate the grouping of links from the users bio, so I did that and realized what if I not only build a link in bio tool but an entire link managemment tool in which users can share their groups of links to anyone and that's how I got the idea of the explore page where users can see links about (Linkbout) specific subject created by other users. And that's how my product shifted from a link-in-bio tool to a link exploration tool. And through the development, I came across multiple scenarios that helped me add new features.

**Here are some of the main features of Linkbout:**

* **Full-fledged link in bio tool.** You can add multiple profile links, have a bio, attach your social media profiles, and much more.
* **Profile customization:** Customize backgrounds, link styles, fonts, colors, or select prebuilt themes.
* **Create, edit, and share Linkbouts.** Create groups of related links, add what social media post it is associated with, and share with the world.
* **Explore Linkbouts created by other users.** Explore various Linkbouts created and curated by users.
* **Search the social media posts to find any Linkbouts associated with them.** Easily find Linkbouts associated with social media posts by simply searching post URLs.
* **Follow interesting users.** Follow the users you like to see their private link collections. And many more underlying features that make this product amazing.

**Who can use it and make the most out of it?**

* **Influencers:** Influencers can club their related links in a single linkbout to increase their cross-selling. Suppose you have shared a post of your outfit, but it consists of items from multiple stores, you can list them all under one linkbout so that your followers can find your affiliated items easily.
* **PC Builders:** Suppose you are building a PC, but for different parts, you rely on different sites, you can club them under a single linkbout and share the single Linkbout with interested parties.
* **Students:** Preparing for a test and have your material across multiple sites? You can put all your material under a single linkbout instead of keeping them open in multiple tabs. And you can share these collections with your friends as well with a single link.
* **Digital artists:** Many artists launch their work on multiple platforms, and it gets harder to share multiple links of the same work. You can simply put all platform links about the particular release, and we are done. No more sending five links for one work.
* And anyone who wants to manage links.

So, that's the journey of Linkbout. And from the post, you can see that I have built this product only what users 'might' want, so feel free to provide any feedback and feature requests, I am all ears. If you have any questions, you can ask me in the comments or dm me.

You can visit the website at [https://www.linkbout.com/](https://www.linkbout.com/)