Announcing Link Taco
We’re happy to announce that LinkTaco is now open for registration!
LinkTaco is a simple set of services to manage your links. Social bookmarking, link organization, URL shortening, and link listings (ie, link-in-bio) are the core services and there are quite a few other features tacked on top of these. It’s free to make an account and also 100% open source so you’re more than welcome to host your own install.
A little over a year ago we (Netlandish) decided to build a small group of services to manage links for us. Previously we’d use internal wiki’s or external services for this but after a while it became kind of tedious.
Basically we wanted to roll our Pinboard, Bitly and Linktr.ee accounts into one easily manageable platform. We may have gotten carried away with everything we’ve added but we’re pretty happy with it so far.
We’ve migrated all of our external data over and been using it in production for nearly 6 months now. As of today, registration is open to the public.
Right now the following domains are provided for you to use with LinkTaco.
- linktaco.com - Social bookmarking / link management
- linkta.co - URL shortening
- links.ht - Link listings (ie, link-in-bio)
If you feel like supporting the ongoing development of the platform you can pay for a subscription for just a few bucks per year. Doing so will get you some extra benefits, such as:
- Use your custom domains + SSL for each service
- Full analytics (free accounts are limited to 2 months)
If you’re a business and want to use LinkTaco for more collaboration with staff members you can pay a few bucks per month and get the following additional benefits:
- Unlimited team member collaboration
- External integrations (Slack, MatterMost)
You can see what’s included on the features page. If you’re looking for an account for an open-source project or perhaps you want paid features but you can’t afford it, please write to hello@linktaco.com and explain the situation and we will consider sponsoring your account.
Why?
Honestly we wanted to play around more with Go servers/applications and GraphQL. A big inspiration for us is the Sourcehut community and since we’re fairly active there and have contributed a number of patches we sort of wanted to follow suit of their current movement towards Go/GraphQL. This was a good way for us to learn a bit more and have something fun to work on during our free time.
What started as a small project slowly turned into something more as we began to use it more and decided there were other pieces missing that are important to us. We figured they’d be important to others as well so we just kept building. And here we are.
We don’t know of another service that offers all of these features in one platform and with a full API to perform all actions. This lets us automate or customize our own, and our clients, workflows exactly how we want.
Contributing
We’d love your help with bug fixing, feature development, design or UI improvements, or just general feedback. We’d like to build this little platform into a tight knit group that is designed to serve the community.
We have the code repo, mailing list, and ticket tracker all linked to on the project page. The project README will have more info on how specifically to contribute but the best way is to subscribe to the development mailing list, check out the issue tracker, get familiar with the code, kick the tires of the product, and start giving feedback.
It’s highly appreciated!
Conclusion
We’re pretty excited to see people using the service and get their thoughts. We know that every bell and whistle isn’t here and that’s a good thing. We can build it out to include what the community wants. That’s the idea anyway.
So please register an account and start importing your bookmarks, etc. Try out the various features and let’s get started making this service better together.