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LittleLink is a free, open source marketing & customer engagement project written in HTML and released under MIT. It has 3,084 GitHub stars, 1,536 forks and 1 open issues, and was last pushed 2 months ago. On this registry it ranks #25 of 50 tracked projects in Marketing & Customer Engagement, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available. It gained 7 stars over the last 6 tracked days.

What is LittleLink?

What it is

LittleLink is a lightweight, self-hosted link-in-bio project in HTML and CSS, released under the MIT license. It is a DIY alternative to Linktree in the marketing and customer engagement ecosystem, where users collect public links in one page. The project solves the problem of presenting multiple branded destinations without a hosted service or a large framework, because a user can fork the repository, edit basic HTML, and publish on their own infrastructure.

Key capabilities

  • LittleLink provides more than 100 branded button styles, and the community adds more through the main repository and LittleLink Extended.
  • The Button Builder lets users preview button styles, copy generated CSS for css/brands.css, and copy generated HTML for index.html.
  • The builder checks contrast ratios and suggests strokes when needed, helping custom buttons remain visible in light and dark themes.
  • The project includes auto, light, and dark themes, with theme selection in index.html and color customization in style.css.
  • Buttons lacking sufficient contrast can be outlined with an inverse stroke to improve visibility.
  • LittleLink uses vanilla CSS instead of a large framework, keeping the page simple and editable with basic HTML knowledge.

Who uses it and how

  • Individuals can fork LittleLink and edit index.html to create a personal page for social accounts, portfolios, stores, or other destinations.
  • Users who need custom branded buttons can use the Button Builder to generate CSS and HTML, then paste the snippets into project files.
  • Developers and self-hosters can deploy through GitHub Pages, a home lab server, a CDN, or another frontend hosting service.
  • Users who want quick publishing can use one-click deployment paths for Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Vercel, Netlify, or Amplify.

Getting started

The typical start is to fork the repository and edit index.html, adding links or creating custom buttons with the Button Builder. The README lists one-click deployment for Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Vercel, Netlify, and Amplify, plus GitHub Pages, a home lab server, a CDN, or other frontend hosting, with no gulp or npm required.

When to use it — and when not to

LittleLink is useful when the goal is a small, self-hosted link page that avoids framework bloat and can be published on static or frontend hosting. It offers a self-hosted alternative to Linktree, but the operator must manage the fork, files, and deployment target; the README mentions no database, storage, or SMTP requirement. It may not suit users who need guaranteed accessibility for every brand, because some branded buttons may fall short of optimal contrast.

project readme (upstream, from github) — read inline

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LittleLink

The DIY self-hosted LinkTree alternative. LittleLink has more than 100 branded button styles you can easily use, with more regularly added by our community in this repo and in LittleLink Extended.

🆕 LittleLink Button Builder

Want to make your own buttons for LittleLink but you're not too sure where to start? Check out our new Button Builder. This new builder lets you preview button styles and with a single click, copy the generated CSS code to put in css/brands.css, and copy the generated HTML code to put in index.html. This builder also helps automate accessibility features by checking contrast ratios and suggesting strokes when needed, ensuring your custom buttons maintain LittleLink's high standards for visibility in both light and dark themes. Design your buttons visually, preview them live, and get ready to go code. Live Site | GitHub Repo

🌞 Themes and Accessibility

LittleLink offers auto, light, and dark themes right out of the box. If the default color schemes don't match your preference, you can easily customize them by updating the values in style.css. You can set any of the themes right in index.html. To enhance visual accessibility in both light and dark modes, buttons lacking sufficient contrast with the background are outlined with an inverse stroke to ensure visibility. While LittleLink emphasizes accessibility, it's important to acknowledge that not all brands incorporated into LittleLink achieve this standard. Branded buttons that come into LittleLink always retain the original essence of the brand and some branded buttons might fall short of optimal accessibility in terms of contrast.

Theme

🥇 Performance

Performance

LittleLink epitomizes simplicity and minimalism. When evaluating the LittleLink sample page (which mirrors a typical LittleLink setup for an individual) through tools such as Google PageSpeed Insights, showcases LittleLink's excellence with 100/100 in Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO. My initial vision for LittleLink was to craft it from the fundamentals. LittleLink leverages its own vanilla css to remove the unnecessary bloat you would get from using a large framework for a page that requires nothing more than simplicity.

☁️ Deploy

Publish

No need for gulp, npm, or anything else to make LittleLink work—it uses the bare essentials. You can automatically fork and deploy LittleLink with Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Vercel, Netlify, or Amplify using the buttons below. LittleLink is also easy to host through GitHub Pages or on your home lab server, CDN, or other frontend hosting services. To edit, all you need is a little basic HTML knowledge to add a link to the existing buttons or you can create your own. See our adding custom buttons to your own fork wiki. It's simple, promise. 🤞

One-Click Deployments

Deploy to Cloudflare

Deploy to DigitalOcean

Deploy to Vercel

Deploy to Netlify

Deploy to Amplify

🤝 Contributions

Please reference the submitting a new brand to LittleLink wiki before opening a PR.

📦 Community Extras

🛸 LittleLink Extended

Looking for more niche services to add to your copy of LittleLink? Check out LittleLink Extended. Users can add more niche services to this repository to help keep the core LittleLink repository less cluttered and more focused on delivering branded experiences for the majority of users.

🎨 Figma

Duplicate the LittleLink Template on Figma Community to help plan out and design your LittleLink page.

Figma Community

🐋 Docker

• Techno Tim is building LittleLink-Server. Check out his video!

• Drew is building a super simple Docker implementation of LittleLink.

🗃️ Misc

• Julian is building LinkStack, which is a fork of Khashayar's LittleLink Admin.

💖 Supporters

You can support LittleLink by buying me a coffee. You can also have your name or your company added to this section and the supporters page of the LittleLink.io website.

🏢 Business Supporters

• Unallocated Space | Hacker/Makerspace in Millersville, MD, serving the greater Baltimore-Washington area

• links.dev

Add Your Company Name

✨ Individual Supporters

• Drew Davis

• Robotter112

Buy Me A Coffee

🐙 Active GitHub Sponsors

• Your Name Here

GitHub Sponsors

🥰 More Ways to Support LittleLink

Buy Me A Coffee

Ko-Fi

PayPal

🆕 Stay Connected

Join the Seth's Nook Discord server to get updates on LittleLink and more. Use the invite code PrAEQFF2fK or click the button below.

Discord

📊 Analytics

To help build a more privacy focused product, we recommend using Fathom Analytics*. View our Fathom analytics dashboard**.

* This is a referral link. Using this link to sign up for Fathom is an easy way to help support LittleLink!
** Analytics in this dashboard start May 03, 2022. View this Google Sheets file with the generic unique pageview data from Google Analytics.

Fathom

🐳 Docker Support

LittleLink includes Docker support for easy deployment and development. All Docker-related files are located in the docker/ directory, with the build's `.dockerig

readme truncated — read the full docs on github

Frequently asked questions

Is LittleLink free to use?

LittleLink is open source under the MIT licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does LittleLink do?

Create your own link-in-bio page with 100+ branded buttons

What is LittleLink written in?

LittleLink is primarily written in HTML. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/sethcottle/littlelink, and it has 3,084 GitHub stars.