The Bento.me alternative built for indie developers

Bento.me shut down on February 13, 2026, about two and a half years after Linktree acquired it. Profile data was deleted and Bento links now redirect to Linktree. If you build software for a living, indiefol.io is a closer replacement than another link-in-bio page: it gives you one public page that holds your apps and games, your optional revenue and customer numbers, your launch milestones, and every link — instead of a grid of blocks you have to rebuild each time you ship.

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// what happened //

Bento.me is gone, and its links point at Linktree

Linktree acquired Bento in 2023 and announced the shutdown in late 2025. Bento.me went offline on February 13, 2026. Users were given an export window before the date; after it, user and profile data was permanently deleted and old bento.me links began redirecting to Linktree.

It followed the same pattern as Koji, which Linktree acquired and wound down in early 2024, and it landed less than a year after read.cv closed following its acquisition by Perplexity. For developers who had settled on one of those pages as their public home, that is three migrations in about two years.

The lesson most makers took from it is not “pick a different link-in-bio” — it is that a page listing links was never really the thing they needed. What they wanted on a public page was the work: what they have shipped, what it is doing, and what they are building next.

// side by side //

indiefol.io vs. Bento.me

Feature comparison between indiefol.io and Bento.me
Featureindiefol.ioBento.me
Still online in 2026Bento.me shut down on February 13, 2026.
One public page with all your links
Dedicated project cards for SaaS appsBento used general-purpose grid blocks, not product records.
Game entries with genre, platforms, and player counts
Optional public revenue (ARR/MRR) and customer counts
Public milestone timeline
Project status (building, launched, acquired, archived)
Custom domain support
Built-in page view and link click analytics
Public revenue goal progress bar
Discovery feed and leaderboard of other makers
Free-form visual bento grid layoutBento let you arrange arbitrary blocks; indiefol.io uses a fixed structure built for shipping products.

Bento.me capabilities describe the product as it existed before its February 13, 2026 shutdown.

// being honest //

When indiefol.io is the wrong choice

You want total layout freedom. Bento’s appeal was the grid — you could drag blocks around until the page felt like yours. indiefol.io deliberately does not do that. It gives you a fixed structure tuned for showing products, metrics, and milestones. If designing the page is the point, a general-purpose builder or your own site will make you happier.

You are not a developer. If you are a photographer, writer, or creator whose page is about posts and media rather than shipped software, most of what makes indiefol.io useful — project status, ARR, player counts, integrations with Stripe and the app stores — will sit empty. Linktree and similar tools serve that case better.

You already have a personal site you enjoy maintaining. If you have a site you are happy to keep updated, you do not need this. indiefol.io exists for the much more common case: the personal site that has been “coming soon” for two years because building it keeps losing to shipping the actual product.

// what you get //

What goes on an indiefol.io page

Apps and games

Unlimited SaaS products and games on the same page. Games carry genre, platforms, player count, and a storefront link.

Metrics that are opt-in

Revenue, customers, players, and growth — shown only if you choose to. Everything can stay private.

A milestone timeline

Launches, revenue marks, and lessons, logged as a public record of how the work actually went.

Built-in analytics

Page views and link clicks on your own page, without wiring up a separate analytics tool.

Your own domain

Connect a custom domain, or use the indiefol.io/username link that works out of the box.

A community around it

A discovery feed and a leaderboard of other makers, so your page is somewhere people already look.

// questions //

Bento.me migration questions

Did Bento.me really shut down?+
Yes. Bento.me shut down on February 13, 2026, roughly two and a half years after Linktree acquired it. User and profile data was deleted, and existing Bento links now redirect to Linktree. Linktree emailed users migration instructions and a Linktree Pro offer at the time.
What is the best Bento.me alternative for a developer?+
It depends on what your page is for. If you mainly need a styled list of links, a general link-in-bio tool is fine. If you ship software and want your page to show the products themselves — apps, games, revenue, customers, milestones — indiefol.io is built for that, because it stores projects as structured records rather than free-form grid blocks.
Can I move my Bento page to indiefol.io?+
You can rebuild it. Bento deleted user data at shutdown, so there is no automated import to pull from — you add your links, apps, and games directly in the indiefol.io dashboard, then publish when the page looks right. Your page stays private until you explicitly enable it.
Do I have to make my revenue public?+
No. Sharing revenue is entirely optional. You can publish a page with only your projects, links, and milestones and never show a financial number. Metrics are opt-in per project.
Can I use my own domain instead of indiefol.io/username?+
Yes. You can connect a custom domain, or use your personalized indiefol.io/username link out of the box.
Is indiefol.io only for SaaS founders?+
No. Indie game developers are a first-class case: games can carry their genre, platforms, player counts, and a storefront link, and they sit on the same page as any SaaS products you run.

Put your work somewhere that outlasts the acquisition

Build the page once, keep it current as you ship. Start from zero and publish only when it looks the way you want.

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