# [082] Counter-case: link-in-bio / bento personal homepages: PH buzz can max out, but users just won't pay > Source: https://stringers.io/en/o/082.html (Stringers / 什么值得做, generated 2026-11-08) > Stringers answers one question every day: what small product can one or two people build in a few months and actually make money from. Numbers come from 15 databases we collect daily, each with source and date. > For agents: these verdicts and the underlying databases (verified revenue, App Store / Google Play charts, ad libraries, GitHub, Product Hunt…) are queryable live over MCP — tools today / hot / products / directions / direction / data. Setup: https://github.com/komako-workshop/stringers (the user logs in at stringers.io → "配置 agent" to get a personal URL). Site index: https://stringers.io/llms.txt > After Bento.me shut down, the space looked open, and PH voters were willing to upvote [Home](https://stringers.io/worth/) / [082] # Not promising: link-in-bio / bento personal pages. You can max out PH votes, but users just won't pay. Closed Inspiring (counter-case) · Real demand, very weak willingness to pay First spotted 2026-11-01 · Last updated 2026-11-02 Status Closed (don't follow: [own.page](https://stringers.io/worth/p/own-page.html) maxed out PH but only converted to about $480 MRR, and apart from one six-year-old product, nearly every peer is at zero) Why this is written up With Bento.me shutting down, the spot looks open and PH will vote for it. But [own.page](https://stringers.io/worth/p/own-page.html) ran a textbook launch (eight months of build-in-public, daily #2, 2,000 signups) and still only converted to about $480 MRR. The problem isn't the product, it's that users won't pay; the free tier also brings content moderation, abuse and infrastructure costs. Confidence High. Conditions that would overturn this (when it becomes buildable for small teams): [own.page](https://stringers.io/worth/p/own-page.html) or a similar new product takes a vertical audience past $3k MRR; or Linktree raises prices sharply or drops its free tier, pushing out a group of high-willingness-to-pay users. ## Evidence Grouped by store. Each group starts with the charts that can be graphed (real curves, data dates below the chart), then the scanner's original notes and source links. ### Indie product revenue (TrustMRR)2 evidence · 4 products with curves [Liinks](https://trustmrr.com/startup/liinks) liinks.co TrustMRR · 30-day revenue $31,217 (-2%) · MRR $31,720 · 5,545 subscriptions Monthly revenue (verified by payment platform) 2025-11 → 2026-11 (13 pts). Light bars = current month, not yet complete Daily revenue (UTC day) Data 2026-09-29 → 2026-11-06 (39 days, 39 observations). Single-day swings are big, so look at the trend in the monthly breakdown above. [Taap.bio](https://trustmrr.com/startup/taap-bio) TrustMRR · 30-day revenue $223 (-30%) · MRR $152 · 8 subscriptions Monthly revenue (verified by payment platform) 2026-08 → 2026-11 (4 pts). Light bars = current month, not yet complete Daily revenue (UTC day) Data 2026-09-29 → 2026-11-06 (39 days, 39 observations). Single-day swings are big, so look at the trend in the monthly breakdown above. [Flaem](https://trustmrr.com/startup/flaem) flaem.co TrustMRR · 30-day revenue $90 (-10%) · MRR $90 · 8 subscriptions Monthly revenue (verified by payment platform) 2025-11 → 2026-10 (12 points) Daily revenue (UTC day) Data 2026-09-29 → 2026-11-06 (39 days, 39 observations). Single-day swings are big, so look at the trend in the monthly breakdown above. [Linkero](https://trustmrr.com/startup/linkero) linke.ro TrustMRR · 30-day revenue $88 (-55%) · MRR $114 · 15 subscriptions Monthly revenue (verified by payment platform) 2025-11 → 2026-11 (13 pts). Light bars = current month, not yet complete Daily revenue (UTC day) Data 2026-09-29 → 2026-11-06 (39 days, 39 observations). Single-day swings are big, so look at the trend in the monthly breakdown above. - indie (11-02 check): [own.page](https://stringers.io/worth/p/own-page.html) ([own.page](https://stringers.io/worth/p/own-page.html)) MRR $476, 62 subscriptions, $362 in 30 days; month by month May (launch month) $246 → June $749 → August $1,287 → September $331 → October $386, back to pre-launch levels. The old Austrian Stripe account (own-page-flexco) still has 6 subscriptions, $39 MRR. - indie (11-02 check, full-text search for the first 25 link-in-bio results): apart from Liinks (liinks.co, MRR $31,516, 5,502 subscriptions, six years old), the top is Linkie at MRR $353, followed by Taap.bio $171, Flaem (flaem.co) $115, Linkero (linke.ro) $114, and most of the rest around $0. ### Product Hunt2 pieces of evidence - PH (2026-05-25): [own.page](https://stringers.io/worth/p/own-page.html) 640 votes (517 today), daily chart #2, weekly chart #3, 88 comments. The founder's retrospective says 2,021 signups in 22 days after launch, versus 62–63 subscriptions now, implying about 0.6% conversion (inferred from signups); the site claims 11,000+ users. - PH (since 2026-05): 134 link-in-bio / bento launches, only 2 featured; [own.page](https://stringers.io/worth/p/own-page.html) is the only one to pass 100 votes. ### Other sources (official sites, press releases, web pages) 1 pieces of evidence - Web ([own.page](https://stringers.io/worth/p/own-page.html) blog 2026-01-28 / founder on X 10-30): the category leader Bento.me shut down earlier this year; the founder 10-30 said that because people build policy-violating pages on the free plan, they are seriously considering dropping it. ## Already doing it Linktree, Liinks, [own.page](https://stringers.io/worth/p/own-page.html), Linkie, Taap.bio, Flaem, Linkero; Bento.me has shut down. In our product dossiers: [own.page](https://stringers.io/worth/p/own-page.html) ## The hardest step Give users a reason to pay. The free tier is enough; Pro mostly adds a custom domain. ## Who it's for Don't build a generic version. If you do, pick a vertical audience that can pay $20+/month (freelancers taking bookings, coaches scheduling sessions, bands selling tickets) and turn the page into a business card with payments and booking (inferred build advice). ## Should every product builder know this? Yes. This is the cleanest example of "PH votes and signups do not equal payments". ## Change log 2026-11-02 Backfill check: [own.page](https://stringers.io/worth/p/own-page.html) MRR $484 / 63 subs → $476 / 62,30 days $362 unchanged; the similar Linkie MRR is $353, slightly above the report's "$0–344" range ceiling. Conclusion unchanged. 2026-11-01 First recorded (backfill: from "Product Hunt roundup v1" 4.2 item 2, 3.9 section, ph-dossiers/own-page.md, "Stringers" section 4, data as of 2026-11-01). Original: Scanner opportunity library #082 (updated daily, 06:00); this page was generated on the 2026-11-08 edition.