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LinkNest – One Link for Everything You Create

LinkNest is a free link-in-bio page from SkillGlider. Most bio fields - Instagram, LinkedIn, a resume, a hackathon profile - only fit one link, but students have more than one thing worth sharing: a portfolio, GitHub, projects, a YouTube channel, a way to get in touch. LinkNest gives every user a single public page (yourdomain/username) that holds all of it, looks the way they want, and shows what people actually click.

Problem Statement

Students building a personal brand for internships and placements end up pasting different links in different places, or sending recruiters a long list of URLs. Existing link-in-bio tools often push paid plans, show ads, or track visitors heavily.

Proposed Solution

LinkNest provides one clean, mobile-friendly page for all of a student's links and content, free forever on the core plan with no credit card. Links can be grouped, reordered, scheduled to auto-delete and toggled on or off, themes make the page feel personal, and anonymous analytics show which links recruiters and visitors open - without selling or sharing that data.

Main Features

  • Claim a personal link-in-bio page (yourdomain/username) in seconds
  • Add links and social profiles from supported platforms
  • Link groups - organise links into titled sections like Socials or Projects
  • Drag-and-drop reordering of links and groups
  • Toggle each link public/private and active/disabled
  • Auto-delete timers for links and content blocks
  • Content blocks - add text updates, images, videos and embeds alongside links
  • Built-in preset themes, plus fonts and button styles, with a templates gallery for inspiration
  • Custom colour control on top of any theme (Plus plan)
  • Page status: Published, Draft or Hidden - only the owner can preview drafts
  • Dashboard overview with real profile views and link clicks
  • Anonymous, deduplicated analytics - never tied to a name or shared with third parties
  • Responsive public page that renders cleanly on phones, tablets and desktops
  • Secure email & password accounts with hashed passwords and password reset
  • Only one strictly-necessary cookie; no advertising or third-party trackers
  • Free forever for core features, with optional Plus and Pro upgrades

Technical Architecture

LinkNest is a React single-page app with a dashboard (Links, Content, Appearance, Settings) and public profile pages. Accounts use email and password with hashed storage and JWT-based sessions held in a single strictly-necessary cookie. Uploaded images and media are stored on Vercel Blob. Views and clicks are counted with a random anonymous visitor identifier kept in the visitor's browser, so analytics are deduplicated without identifying anyone. Plus and Pro upgrades are handled through an integrated payment widget.

System Flow

  1. A student signs up with email and password and claims their username
  2. From the dashboard they add links, socials and content blocks, grouping and ordering them
  3. In Appearance they pick a theme and adjust fonts, buttons and colours
  4. In Settings they set the page to Published
  5. They share one URL in their Instagram bio, LinkedIn, resume or hackathon profile
  6. The Overview dashboard shows views and clicks so they know what visitors care about

Challenges & Solutions

Giving users useful analytics without tracking them.

Used an anonymous random identifier stored only in the browser to deduplicate views and clicks, with no link to names or emails and no third-party trackers.

Letting users organise many links without a complicated editor.

Added titled groups, drag-to-reorder for both groups and links, and simple visibility/status toggles.

Keeping it genuinely free while leaving room to grow.

Everything core works on the Free plan with no credit card; Plus and Pro only add extras such as custom colours.

Results & Impact

LinkNest is live at linknest.skillglider.in, giving students and creators a free, ad-free, privacy-respecting way to share everything they build - portfolios, projects, socials and content - from one link.

Future Improvements

  • Custom domains (planned for Plus)
  • Exportable analytics with date-range comparisons and referrer breakdowns
  • Team plan with multiple profiles and shared link libraries
  • Auto-import of a student's Student Spot ID and SkillGlider projects

Key Learnings

  • Building a full SaaS product with free and paid tiers
  • Secure authentication and session handling
  • Privacy-first analytics design
  • Drag-and-drop and theming UX
  • File storage with Vercel Blob

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