If you write code or design for a living, your link in bio is a tiny portfolio. People decide in a few seconds whether your work is good. A list of identical buttons doesn't help you make that case.
Here's what to look for in a Linktree alternative when your work is visual or technical, and how to set one up.
What developers and designers need
- Visual tiles. Your projects should show screenshots, icons and thumbnails, not just names.
- A layout you control. Some things deserve to be big, and some should be small.
- Speed. A slow bio page is a bad first impression for someone who builds websites.
- Room to explain. A case study needs more than a link title, but a whole website is too much.
- Taste. It shouldn't look like a template everyone else uses.
What the options look like
- Linktree is the familiar default with lots of integrations. Most pages look alike, which is the problem if your work is about taste.
- Carrd and similar one-page builders give you full design freedom, but you start from scratch and maintain it yourself.
- Your own site is the most flexible, but it's also a project you have to keep up, and it isn't built for a bio link.
- Drawr sits in the middle: a grid of tiles that show what they are, organized into drawers, with almost no setup.
How to set up a designer or developer drawer
Lead with one project, big
Paste your best project's link and make it a large tile. Add a screenshot, a one-line description, and a badge like "Case study" or "Open source".
Use slide-out drawers for case studies
A slide-out drawer opens a panel on the same page with text, a photo or a video, and an optional button to the full project. It's the right size for a short case study: the problem, what you did, and the result. Visitors read it without leaving your page.
Group the rest
- Work: client projects, case studies, products.
- Open source: GitHub repos and packages.
- Writing: posts and talks.
- Elsewhere: GitHub, Dribbble, Behance, LinkedIn and X as small tiles, so they line up like app icons.
Set a tile size per drawer so everything lines up, or leave it mixed to make one thing stand out.
Pick a finish
Under Design, choose a wood (oak, walnut, ash or cherry), a glow color, and grid or list. Walnut with a violet glow reads very differently from ash with mint.
Sell what you make
UI kits, templates, icon packs and fonts get a price badge, like "$49". Link straight to your Gumroad or store.
Check the details
- Your link previews as a picture of your drawer when you share it, with your photo and best work. It updates itself.
- Stats show which project gets opened and sparked most, which is useful for knowing what to put first.
- You can export your whole page as a file any time.
