Why Linkfount?

I have been surprised and somewhat frustrated, for a while, at how difficult it tends to be to find all a given writer's writing.

Googling a writer might, if you're lucky, turn up their Substack or author pages or social media accounts, but each of these will, in many cases, just link you to a fragment of the writer's total output.

I think the issue is that there's no great way for writers to create online indexes of their work. There are many options for sharing one's writing online, of course, but they are either (1) too complicated, (2) too simple, (3) too single-purpose, or (4) too inflexible.

Personal websites (WordPress, SquareSpace, etc.) are flexible and capable but are intimidating to non-technical folks and too much of a chore. Websites are hard for professionals to design well; most writers don't want to spend time and effort on them, even if in theory one would be "nice to have." For those with technical acumen, time on their hands, or desire for highly personalized branding, a dedicated personal website is a great choice. I tend to think most writers are 0/3.

Link-in-bio platforms (Linktree, Bio.sites, etc.) are nice and simple but I think too simple for most writers. However, these can be a great option for those who write in just a few places and just want to share, e.g., three author page links and a link to Substack.

Blogs and newsletters (Substack, BeeHive, etc.) are often excellent, easy-to-use products. However, they are not designed around sharing external content (like links to freelance work, academic publications, podcast appearances, or recommendations lists) in an easily reviewable way.

Social media is great for building a following but not for sharing large numbers of pins or bookmarks in a reader-friendly way. They are also famously incentivized to keep people on the platform and thus do not optimize for links to external content. I've seen people work around this by, e.g., pinning threads of their work to the top of their X profiles, but this is clearly a suboptimal solution.

Linkfount combines the organizational flexibility of a personal website with the simplicity and convenience of a link-in-bio or blogging platform.

In a few clicks, you can add a link to anywhere on the web, publish a markdown post, or upload a PDF file. You can create lists (and sublists) to organize your content (e.g., Articles & essays or Reading recommendations or Lectures). Rearranging lists works through simple drag-and-drop, as easy as rearranging a playlist.

Linkfount automatically generates a chronological Recents tab so readers can see a timeline of your work, and a Search tab that allows them to find specific content they're interested in by title, description, publication name, etc.

If you are not paying for a product you are the product. I have attempted to price this platform fairly and straightforwardly. These low subscription fees help cover our hosting costs and support our small team, allowing us to operate without ads and to never, ever sell your data, use it to train "AI" models, or otherwise monetize you.

If price is a blocker, please reach out to me; I'm happy to provide free or discounted subscriptions for those who need them.

Recently, this discoverability problem has been on my mind alongside another set of interrelated problems—the enshittification of Google Search , link-suppressing and clickbait-promoting social media algorithms, and the spread of low-quality content written by no one but just passable enough as meaningful to waste your time. Even for non-writers, I think this platform could potentially become a valuable home for high-quality curation of human thought and art.

—Micah