 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here. I want to take a look today at a really, really cool open-source project that's called Little Link. So I discovered a couple of weeks ago a service called Linktree. I was a little bit late to the party. Linktree is available at linktr.ee. And what Linktree does is basically instead of sending out, let's say one link or putting one link on your Facebook about me section or your medium bio, you can put out a link to a Linktree. And the Linktree is just a nice little back end for generating essentially a one page static website. That's really all it is. Unfortunately, because Linktree is a SaaS product, there is a couple of disadvantages. One is that you don't really control it. The second disadvantage is that it's a freemium service. So they're trying to upsell you. Now, when I came across Linktree, I said this is really, really great. But this is actually basically what I've been trying to do myself for years and how complicated could this be? Now, what I tried to do before was install WordPress and then basically strip out everything I didn't need from WordPress to reduce the bloat and make the web page load lightning fast. This is just like an online business card. You don't need to have a whole blog management tool. So I knew WordPress was really the wrong tool for the job here. And this the right tool for the job is probably something like Linktree. So let me just take you into it's a GitHub page here. So basically, it's at GitHub, I'll put a link in the description, github.com forward slash a Seth Cottle forward slash link link little link. And you can see by just going through the folders and there's little link dot IO is the website here for the project. And this is a demonstration little link. This is a real thing. You've got the light theme. And you've got the dark theme just going to show those. This is the light theme applied. And this is a dark kind of a more nighttime theme applied. This is how it looks. So you can see it kind of does what you want to get out of little link, right? You have a link off to your GitHub link off to your Twitter link off to your Instagram. Ironically, these and I say ironically, only because Instagram is probably the least techie of the various major social networks. But this has become really popular with Instagramers because you can put one link into your bio. And instead of if you want to link off to your press kit and you want to link off to other things, you can just put in. So that's it's a really, really powerful idea. Given that my own personal webpage really has nothing on it now, it just has these links in an ugly WordPress menu. This is a much more elegant way of doing the same job. So you can look through the GitHub folder and the project is such and just see how incredibly lightweight this thing is. Now there's only really a few pages here, a few folders or CSS icons, images, license, readme and index dot html. So if I go into, for instance, icons, you've got a bunch of icons, discord, Facebook, Figma, GitLab, Instagram, Kitt, LinkedIn, and these are all ready to roll they're in SVG format. So they should look pretty decent when they're scaled up. And you can just quickly refer to the relative past. And if you go into CSS, you've got those different themes ready to roll as well, skeleton, dark skeleton, light. And really all there is to say besides the license and the readme, the markdown files is index dot html. And this is just filled out again, it's pretty much ready to go for you. You just you're going to want to change the title. You're going to want to change the meta, the meta tags, etc. And if I just scroll down to where the example starts, so let's say GitHub here, you can see all this is doing is calling here for the GitHub icon, the author ready, good to go. And what you all you need to do here is replace the hashtag with your GitHub profile URL. So if you want to build this thing out, it's going to take you a few minutes. My only concern would be for putting in in my little link, I have links off to stuff that wouldn't have these icons yet, like press kits. So what I might do is roll out some icons of my own, or maybe have a generic document icon, I might add that in. In order that it's easy to just link to not only my paper, because I'm going to have a lot of these my, I won't do same clay, but I'll do medium Reddit, YouTube, definitely LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub. So a lot of these pre built icons will be useful to me. And I'll just want to add in a few of my own. So that's basically it. Now let me also show you how it looks. This is a real website here. This is one of my domain names that I'm currently working on. And this is going to be like my main business card website when I next print business cards, I'll probably put that on this. Now this is my web hosting. And all I need to do now, the right way to do this or the more professional way to do this would be to use some kind of a front end manager that can pull in the GitHub repository. So you can get those changes. All I'm doing, I just uploaded this to a website and I'm just doing this here. You know, so it's kind of the hackier way to do it because, you know, just put this website behind, let's say cloud fair cloudflare access for a day, build it and then deploy. So you can do that. Or you can do it the more professional way. So I have a code editor open and all I need to do here is make some changes. And once I've done those, I can basically move them in. So instance, if I go down here to let's say, little link, which is your name. So right, so I just going to replace this now with Daniel Rose Hill's links. Click on save changes. You're not seeing that here. Okay, I've saved that one HTML file. And I've just done a refresh. And as you can see, the default template has been replaced with that title. So that's basically what this is. It's a really, really useful project, I think, if you just want to create a very simple one page link tree alternative, you don't have to worry about link tree going under or you don't have to worry about link tree upselling you or then removing a free tier or anything like that. And I think for anything like this, that you're putting kind of at the center of your marketing as such because you could totally just print up business cards if you still use business cards and put a link to this, this thing and the project is open source so you can just go and grab it yourself from GitHub and make your edits deploy it boom and it's up there on the internet. Hope this video is useful if you'd like to get more videos for me about various tech subjects, Linux subjects and other things feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel.