[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":436},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fblog\u002Fyour-link-in-bio-belongs-to-your-community":3,"\u002Fblog\u002Fyour-link-in-bio-belongs-to-your-community-surround":425},{"id":4,"title":5,"authors":6,"badge":12,"body":14,"date":412,"description":413,"extension":414,"image":415,"meta":417,"navigation":418,"path":419,"seo":420,"stem":423,"__hash__":424},"posts\u002F3.blog\u002F10.your-link-in-bio-belongs-to-your-community.md","Your Link-in-Bio Should Belong to Your Organization, Not a Third Party",[7],{"name":8,"to":9,"avatar":10},"Tony An","\u002Fabout",{"src":11},"\u002Fassets\u002Fimages\u002Fteams\u002Ftony.png",{"label":13},"Launch",{"type":15,"value":16,"toc":392},"minimark",[17,22,35,38,41,53,57,60,63,69,79,85,88,92,98,101,108,119,122,126,133,142,146,149,165,168,172,183,186,189,196,200,203,235,246,253,257,264,274,277,281,314,318,334,341,344,348,351,354,357,360,364,374,377,384],[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"the-most-important-link-your-organization-owns-probably-isnt-yours","The Most Important Link Your Organization Owns Probably Isn't Yours",[23,24,25,26,30,31,34],"p",{},"Open the Instagram profile of almost any student club, nonprofit, or community organization. Look at the link in their\nbio. It's almost always the same: ",[27,28,29],"code",{},"linktr.ee\u002Fsomename",", or ",[27,32,33],{},"beacons.ai\u002Fsomename",", or a free Notion page someone built\nin a hurry three semesters ago.",[23,36,37],{},"That single link is, statistically, the most-clicked URL your organization will ever publish. Every flyer, every story,\nevery QR code, every \"link in bio!!\" caption — they all funnel through it. It is, for most organizations, the front\ndoor of your entire digital presence.",[23,39,40],{},"And it's hosted on a third-party platform that profits from putting their logo on it.",[23,42,43,44,48,49,52],{},"That has been the default for a decade. Today we're making a better one available for free, to every community\norganization on OEASE: ",[45,46,47],"strong",{},"Bio Pages",", branded link-in-bio pages that live at ",[27,50,51],{},"oes.bio\u002Fyour-handle",".",[18,54,56],{"id":55},"why-the-linktree-default-is-a-quiet-cost","Why The Linktree Default Is a Quiet Cost",[23,58,59],{},"Linktree is a fine product. It works. It's used by more than 50 million people. We're not here to bash it.",[23,61,62],{},"But it was designed for individual creators — a TikToker promoting their album, an influencer linking out to their\nAmazon shop. It treats every account as a stand-alone person with a personal brand. That model has three problems when\nthe \"person\" is actually a community organization.",[23,64,65,68],{},[45,66,67],{},"The page belongs to whoever created the account."," When the marketing chair graduates, the password graduates with\nthem. We've watched organizations spend a literal week trying to recover Linktree access during an officer transition.",[23,70,71,74,75,52],{},[45,72,73],{},"The branding is someone else's."," A visitor taps the link in your bio and the first thing they see — above your\nmission, your events, your photos — is the Linktree logo and a free-tier upsell. Your members are being marketed to by\na SaaS company at the exact moment they should be paying attention to ",[76,77,78],"em",{},"you",[23,80,81,84],{},[45,82,83],{},"The analytics are paywalled or absent."," Want to know which of your seven links actually got clicked last semester?\nThat'll be $5 a month. Want to do anything more sophisticated than a click count? That'll be $24 a month. For an\norganization that runs on a $200 budget, that's not a feature — that's a \"no.\"",[23,86,87],{},"These costs don't show up on a budget line. They show up as a slow leak: a brand that's not quite yours, a system that\nbreaks every time leadership changes, and a feedback loop about what your members care about that you'll never get to\nsee.",[18,89,91],{"id":90},"a-link-in-bio-that-actually-belongs-to-your-organization","A Link-in-Bio That Actually Belongs to Your Organization",[23,93,94,95,97],{},"We built ",[45,96,47],{}," to fix all three of those problems at once. Like every other OEASE feature, it lives natively\ninside your organization's workspace, which means it inherits everything OEASE already knows about you: your handle,\nyour members, your branding, your admin team.",[23,99,100],{},"Here's what changes when the link in your bio is built into the platform that runs your organization:",[102,103,105,106],"h3",{"id":104},"your-page-lives-at-oesbioyour-handle","Your Page Lives at ",[27,107,51],{},[23,109,110,111,114,115,118],{},"Pick the URL once when you create your OEASE organization, and your bio page is live at the matching short domain\nforever. ",[27,112,113],{},"oes.bio\u002Fstudents-for-music"," belongs to Students for Music. ",[27,116,117],{},"oes.bio\u002Flions-club-cambridge"," belongs to that\nchapter of the Lions Club. The handle is yours, owned by the organization, not a person.",[23,120,121],{},"When the marketing chair graduates, the URL doesn't change. The new chair logs in with their own credentials and keeps\nshipping. There's nothing to \"transfer.\"",[102,123,125],{"id":124},"your-brand-front-and-center","Your Brand, Front and Center",[23,127,128,129,132],{},"Open a Bio Page and the first thing a visitor sees is ",[45,130,131],{},"your organization's name and logo"," at the top. The page colors\nmatch the theme you picked for your organization. OEASE appears, modestly, at the very bottom of the page in small\ngray text — and only because the law requires us to disclose who's running the platform.",[23,134,135,136,141],{},"This is the same philosophy behind every public-facing OEASE feature, including ",[137,138,140],"a",{"href":139},"\u002Fblog\u002Fmeeting-scheduling-is-broken","Time Polls",":\nyour organization is the brand, we're the infrastructure. Members don't follow your community to look at our logo.",[102,143,145],{"id":144},"three-item-types-because-a-long-list-of-buttons-is-a-mess","Three Item Types, Because a Long List of Buttons Is a Mess",[23,147,148],{},"Most link-in-bio pages are a vertical stack of identical-looking buttons. By the time you have eight links, nobody can\nfind anything. We added two structural item types to help organize:",[150,151,152,159],"ul",{},[153,154,155,158],"li",{},[45,156,157],{},"Headers"," — short titles that group your links into sections, like \"Upcoming Events,\" \"How to Join,\" or \"Listen To\nOur Podcast\"",[153,160,161,164],{},[45,162,163],{},"Dividers"," — visual separators that create breathing room between sections without adding text",[23,166,167],{},"The result is a page you can actually scan. New members find what they're looking for in seconds, not by scrolling\nthrough fifteen identical buttons hoping the right one is somewhere in there.",[102,169,171],{"id":170},"scheduled-visibility-the-feature-linktree-doesnt-have","Scheduled Visibility — The Feature Linktree Doesn't Have",[23,173,174,175,178,179,182],{},"This is the one we're most excited about. Every link can have a ",[45,176,177],{},"start time"," and an ",[45,180,181],{},"end time",". Set them, and the\nlink auto-publishes when the start time hits, and auto-hides when the end time passes.",[23,184,185],{},"Why does this matter? Because every community organization runs on a calendar of time-sensitive events. A welcome week\nsign-up form should show up Monday and disappear Friday. A semester-end ticket sale should vanish the moment tickets\nare sold out. A \"vote in our board election by 11:59 PM\" link should be gone at midnight.",[23,187,188],{},"Without scheduling, this means manually editing your bio page on a Friday night while you're trying to be at the\nevent. With scheduling, you set the dates once, three weeks in advance, and forget. Your bio page does the right thing\nautomatically.",[23,190,191,192,195],{},"Combined with ",[45,193,194],{},"pin to top"," (which floats one item above all the rest), this makes Bio Pages something most\norganizations have never had: a public-facing page that updates itself.",[102,197,199],{"id":198},"real-analytics-without-selling-out-your-visitors","Real Analytics, Without Selling Out Your Visitors",[23,201,202],{},"Every Bio Page comes with full analytics, free for every organization:",[150,204,205,211,217,223,229],{},[153,206,207,210],{},[45,208,209],{},"Page views"," — how many people opened your page",[153,212,213,216],{},[45,214,215],{},"Link clicks"," — how many times each item got tapped",[153,218,219,222],{},[45,220,221],{},"Top links"," — your most-clicked items, ranked, for any time window",[153,224,225,228],{},[45,226,227],{},"Click-through rate"," — what percentage of visitors actually clicked something (a real measure of whether your page\nis doing its job)",[153,230,231,234],{},[45,232,233],{},"Date-range filters"," — last 7, 30, or 90 days, plus lifetime totals",[23,236,237,238,241,242,245],{},"You can answer questions like ",[76,239,240],{},"\"Did anyone actually click the volunteer form last week?\""," and ",[76,243,244],{},"\"Which event got more\nsign-ups, the formal or the picnic?\""," without a separate tool, a separate login, or a separate bill.",[23,247,248,249,252],{},"And here's the part that matters: we built the analytics on top of an append-only event log, which means ",[45,250,251],{},"the numbers\ndon't drift",". Every view, every click is its own immutable record. Aggregations are computed from raw events on every\nquery, so you'll never have the \"wait, why is the count wrong?\" problem that plagues counter-based analytics systems.",[102,254,256],{"id":255},"privacy-by-design-no-cookies-no-ip-logging","Privacy by Design — No Cookies, No IP Logging",[23,258,259,260,263],{},"We made a deliberate choice that's worth calling out: ",[45,261,262],{},"Bio Pages do not set tracking cookies, and we never store raw\nIP addresses."," When someone visits your page, we generate a one-way hash of their visit using a salt that rotates at\nmidnight UTC every day. That gives us unique-visitor counts (so we can compute click-through rates) without keeping any\ndurable identifier.",[23,265,266,267,273],{},"This is the same pattern that privacy-first analytics tools like ",[137,268,272],{"href":269,"rel":270},"https:\u002F\u002Fplausible.io\u002F",[271],"nofollow","Plausible"," and Fathom use.\nIt's why your bio page doesn't need a cookie banner.",[23,275,276],{},"If your organization works with minors, with members in the EU, or with anyone who values their privacy — and that's\nbasically everyone — this means your link-in-bio is no longer a privacy compliance risk.",[102,278,280],{"id":279},"everything-else-youd-expect","Everything Else You'd Expect",[150,282,283,290,296,302,308],{},[153,284,285,286,289],{},"Up to ",[45,287,288],{},"100 items"," per page (we doubt you'll hit it, but if you do, your members might not be reading anyway)",[153,291,285,292,295],{},[45,293,294],{},"30 social links"," — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Spotify, LinkedIn, X, GitHub, Discord, and more — rendered as\nclean icons at the top of your page",[153,297,298,301],{},[45,299,300],{},"Drag-to-reorder"," with a touch-friendly mobile interface",[153,303,304,307],{},[45,305,306],{},"Theme presets"," for organizations that want a great-looking page without picking colors, plus full custom theme\noverrides for ones that want exact brand match",[153,309,310,313],{},[45,311,312],{},"Multi-admin editing"," — anyone with the right permission in your OEASE workspace can update the page, no separate\nLinktree account required",[18,315,317],{"id":316},"the-pattern-behind-this","The Pattern Behind This",[23,319,320,321,323,324,328,329,333],{},"If you've been following along with our other launches — ",[137,322,140],{"href":139},",\n",[137,325,327],{"href":326},"\u002Fblog\u002Forganization-finance-made-simple","membership dues",", ",[137,330,332],{"href":331},"\u002Fblog\u002Frecruitment-ai-screening-launch","recruitment screening"," —\nyou'll notice a pattern.",[23,335,336,337,340],{},"Every one of those features is a thing your organization was ",[76,338,339],{},"already doing",", with a third-party tool that was built\nfor some other audience and didn't quite fit. Bio Pages is the same shape. We're not inventing a new workflow. We're\ntaking a workflow you already do — sharing a list of links — and giving you a version that knows who you are.",[23,342,343],{},"That's the bet behind the entire OEASE platform: that community organizations deserve real, professional infrastructure\nwithout paying enterprise prices for it, and without having their brand chopped up across a dozen disconnected SaaS\ntools that each take a small piece.",[18,345,347],{"id":346},"why-its-free","Why It's Free",[23,349,350],{},"You'll see this section in every launch post we write. It's not a marketing line — it's the core of the model.",[23,352,353],{},"Every OEASE feature is free. No tiers. No \"upgrade to unlock.\" No per-seat pricing. We sustain the platform through a\nsmall 1.3% fee on payment transactions processed through Stripe — so when your organization collects dues or sells\ntickets through OEASE, a tiny percentage helps us keep the lights on.",[23,355,356],{},"If your organization never processes payments through us, we never charge you anything. You still get Bio Pages. You\nstill get every other feature. Forever.",[23,358,359],{},"A student club running on a $200 budget shouldn't have to pay $5\u002Fmonth for analytics on a link-in-bio page. A nonprofit\nthat runs on volunteer energy shouldn't have to budget around a SaaS subscription before they can share their event\nschedule. We don't think the front door of your community should cost extra.",[18,361,363],{"id":362},"start-using-it","Start Using It",[23,365,366,367,370,371,373],{},"Bio Pages is live in your OEASE workspace right now. Open ",[45,368,369],{},"Bio Page"," in your admin sidebar, add your first few\nlinks, set a theme, and your page is published at ",[27,372,51],{}," instantly.",[23,375,376],{},"Replace whatever URL is in your Instagram bio. Update your QR codes. Send the new short link in your next email blast.\nThe most important link your organization owns is finally one your organization actually owns.",[23,378,379],{},[137,380,383],{"href":381,"rel":382},"https:\u002F\u002Foease.app",[271],"Open OEASE and create your Bio Page →",[23,385,386,387,391],{},"Not on OEASE yet? ",[137,388,390],{"href":389},"\u002F","Start here"," — every feature on the platform, including Bio Pages, is free for every community\norganization, with no tiers and no setup fee. You can have your bio page live in under three minutes.",{"title":393,"searchDepth":394,"depth":394,"links":395},"",2,[396,397,398,409,410,411],{"id":20,"depth":394,"text":21},{"id":55,"depth":394,"text":56},{"id":90,"depth":394,"text":91,"children":399},[400,403,404,405,406,407,408],{"id":104,"depth":401,"text":402},3,"Your Page Lives at oes.bio\u002Fyour-handle",{"id":124,"depth":401,"text":125},{"id":144,"depth":401,"text":145},{"id":170,"depth":401,"text":171},{"id":198,"depth":401,"text":199},{"id":255,"depth":401,"text":256},{"id":279,"depth":401,"text":280},{"id":316,"depth":394,"text":317},{"id":346,"depth":394,"text":347},{"id":362,"depth":394,"text":363},"2026-05-01","Most clubs and nonprofits rely on Linktree, Beacons, or a Notion page to share their important links. 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Here's how we built a sustainable model that keeps OEASE free.",1777658083314]