Social media decision
Linkship
A competent developer can recreate a useful link-in-bio site (pages, themes, analytics, payments) given prior open-source examples, but reproducing the vendor polish, existing customer base, and any proprietary AI insights or productized lifetime billing experience makes a full replacement impractical for most individuals.
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$9/mo
$108/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off44 h to build
$0/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 1 seat.
Open-source builds that already do this
Every project below is open source and already does this job today. Fork one, self-host it, or take the parts you need - the build prompt further down assumes an empty file, and this is the shortcut past that. Licences differ; check the one on each card before you ship. All Linkship alternatives, with the arithmetic →
What a replacement has to do
- Create a short public page with an ordered list of links, customize its appearance, track clicks and visitors, and optionally publish a custom domain and enable Pro features via payment.
What it still won’t have
- Brand recognition and existing user base
- Polished multi-theme catalog and designer-built premium themes
- Built-in AI Insights analysis unless reimplemented
- Lifetime-plan billing and payment reconciliation tooling at scale
- Customer support and marketing delivered by the vendor
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 1 seat.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimal self-hosted Linkship-like link-in-bio service using Next.js (React) + Postgres + Node.js API on Vercel or Render, with Let's Encrypt on a small VPS or managed host. In scope: Google/GitHub OAuth signup, account/profile model, link CRUD with drag-and-drop ordering, public profile pages at /:username rendered server-side with selectable themes and color/font overrides, client-side click tracking that posts events to the API, daily aggregation job to compute clicks per link and simple geolocation (free GeoIP-lite), custom domain mapping with automated TLS, Stripe integration for a Pro subscription unlock and one-time lifetime purchase, admin endpoint to export analytics CSVs, error handling, and unit/integration tests for API routes. Out of scope: full AI Insights engine, large-scale analytics warehousing, multi-tenant billing UI, and designer premium-theme marketplace.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- An open-source build was found+5
- 3 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- 3/3 assessment runs agreed+4
- Evidence score67
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 3
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productLinkship — Tu link in bio premium | Alternativa a Linktree
- official pricingPrecios Linkship: 14 días gratis, luego $9/mes o $149 pago único | Linkship
- open sourcefayazara/onelink
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
