Self-hosted · $39 · yours
Beacon: a self-hosted link-in-bio you actually own
A link-in-bio you own outright.
Beacon is a link-in-bio you download, customize, and host yourself. It pulls in what you publish: your newsletter, your podcast, your latest work, your shop. The page stays current on its own. $39 once, instead of $108 a year, every year.
Instant download. 14-day money-back guarantee.
Your link-in-bio is the least current page on the internet with your name on it.
You write a newsletter, record episodes, run a shop, host workshops, post threads. The page in your bio is a column of buttons you set up two years ago. It points at half the things you've moved on from.
Linktree and its clones charge $9 a month to keep you maintaining that list. They route your visitors through their domain and sell analytics back to you on their own dashboard.
The work is yours. The page is theirs.
Your hub keeps up with you.
Beacon pulls in what you publish and shows it as visual cards: thumbnails, dates, direct links. New newsletter post, new episode, new product, new thread, it shows up on your page within minutes of going live.
Beacon reads your public feeds directly, so the page stays current on its own. You won't log into a dashboard or copy URLs around. That's less to maintain than the column of buttons you stopped touching.
Your content, pulled in live.
Fifteen content types across three families: an external link card, eleven live feeds, and three embedded players. Mix them in any order. Most pull fresh on every page load — no rebuild, no dashboard.
External link
- External Link A custom card with emoji, title, subtitle, URL, and an optional badge (Sponsored, Limited time, New…)
Live feed cards
- YouTube Recent videos with thumbnails and upload dates
- Substack Newsletter posts and editions as they publish
- Medium Recent articles with dates and reading time
- Podcasts Recent episodes from any podcast RSS feed
- Twitch Live/offline status with a pulsing LIVE badge
- Etsy Shop listings that auto-update on publish
- Custom RSS Any blog, news, or content feed on the open web
- Bluesky Recent posts with image thumbnails — posts, replies, reposts, or all three
- Reddit Your recent posts, comments, or both — interleaved by date
- Trakt What you've recently watched — shows, movies, or both
- Bookshelf A row of book covers from a Goodreads or Hardcover shelf
Embedded players new
- Embedded Music A featured track, album, or playlist — Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, or YouTube
- Schedule A booking page from Calendly or Cal.com — visitors book without leaving
- Ko-fi A donation widget with full payment options inside the card
Publish anywhere. See it on your Beacon in minutes.
Small tiles. Real-time personality.
A scrollable row of compact tiles that show what you're doing right now: what you're listening to, reading, playing, or counting down to. Plus custom tiles for anything else. All optional. All draggable to reorder. Each with its own accent color.
Make it yours. In every way.
Beacon ships with ten theme presets, but every visual detail is yours to change. Six color slots, three background modes (solid, animated gradient, or photo with frosted-glass cards), seventeen fonts in the picker (plus any Google Font by name), five avatar shapes, four card styles, and 25+ social platform icons.
Underneath the presets is a full design system. Sensible defaults, no ceiling on what you change.
Setup runs in a browser. No config files to touch.
Double-click to start. A visual editor opens in your browser. On the left: every setting, organized in a single scrollable page with icon navigation. On the right: a live preview that updates as you make changes.
Pick a preset or build your own palette. Upload your avatar. Add your links and feeds. Configure your tiles. Drag everything into order. Paste your analytics snippet if you use one. When it looks right, click "Build Site" and upload the output folder to any host. Done.
The whole setup takes about fifteen minutes. The site lasts as long as you want it to.
Buy it once. Own it forever.
Beacon is a one-time purchase. There's no account to create, no login, no dashboard, and no monthly fee. The builder runs on your computer, not our servers. Your data never leaves your machine.
Host the output on Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, or any web host that serves HTML. All of those have free tiers. Your total ongoing cost is zero.
$39 is what it costs me to ship this and keep it updated. There's no Pro tier because there's nothing I'm holding back, and no renewal because charging forever for a finished thing is the wrong shape of business.
Beacon ships with no trackers, no "powered by" watermark, and no Pro-tier toggles, because there's no Pro tier.
How Beacon stacks up.
A direct comparison. No spin.
| Feature | Beacon | Linktree Free | Linktree Pro | Later (Linkin.bio) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $0 (one-time) | Free | $9/mo ($108/yr) | $25/mo |
| Live content feeds & embeds | 15 types incl. Spotify, Bluesky, Reddit | No | No | No |
| Live widget tiles | 8 + custom tiles | No | No | No |
| Full theme customization | Colors, fonts, shapes, photo & gradient backgrounds | Limited | Yes | Limited |
| Custom domain | Yes (any host) | No | Paid add-on | Paid add-on |
| Analytics / tracking | Your own analytics | Their analytics | Their analytics | Their analytics |
| Your data on their servers | No (runs locally) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Pricing as of April 2026.
Linktree Pro costs $108 a year, every year, and still doesn't show your content. Beacon is $39 once and works forever.
Instant download. 14-day money-back guarantee.
Six creators, six Beacons, and not one looks like another.
Each one starts with Beacon's defaults and ends up looking nothing like the others. Open any of them to see how it was put together.
What's in the box
When you purchase Beacon, you download a zip file containing everything you need. No hunting for docs, no missing pieces.
A few things people ask before they buy.
Do I need to be a developer?
No. The builder is a double-click-to-launch visual editor. If you've ever dropped a folder into Netlify or pushed something to GitHub Pages, you're qualified. Node lives under the hood so you don't have to touch it.
What happens when a platform changes their API?
We watch for it. The feed parsers are part of the code you own, and we ship free updates when anything upstream breaks. You pull the update, run the builder, done. If a platform disappears, we replace it with something better.
Do I actually get the source code?
Every Astro component, every style, every config file. Change it, rebrand it, fork it for a side project. The one thing you can't do is resell Beacon itself as a theme. The license is per site, not per portfolio.
What does Beacon depend on to run?
One thing, by design: a small Cloudflare Worker that proxies RSS feed requests, because browsers can't fetch RSS feeds across domains directly. The Worker source ships in the package. Deploy your own on a free Cloudflare account and paste its URL into the builder, or use the free one I run by default. The default is the easy path; the self-hosted path is built in. Full setup is in the docs.
What does support look like?
Email. There's one of us, so it's not a 24/7 helpdesk, but you get a reply from the person who wrote the code. docs.ignyte.me/beacon handles most questions before they turn into emails.
How does the 14-day refund actually work?
Reply to the receipt email within fourteen days. No forms, no "tell us why." Money back, usually the same day.
Ready when you are
Light it up.
Fifteen minutes from download to live. Yours, forever.
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