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+title = 'Announcing Link Taco'
+date = 2024-10-15T06:27:39-06:00
+lastmod = 2024-10-15T06:27:39-06:00
+tags = ['announcement', 'news']
+summary = 'Announcing LinkTaco: An open source social bookmark and link manager, link shortener, and link listing service.'
+description = 'Announcing LinkTaco: An open source social bookmark and link manager, link shortener, and link listing service.'
+keywords = ['links', 'linktaco', 'announcement', 'open source']
+draft = false
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+
+We're happy to announce that LinkTaco is now open for registration!
+
+LinkTaco is a simple set of services to manage your links. Social bookmarking,
+link organization, URL shortening, and link listings (ie, link-in-bio) are the
+core services and there are quite a few other features tacked on top of these.
+It's free to [make an account][reg] and also [100% open source][oss] so you're
+more than welcome to host your own install.
+
+[reg]: https://linktaco.com/accounts/register "Register"
+[oss]: https://code.netlandish.com/~netlandish/links "Code"
+
+A little over a year ago we ([Netlandish][]) decided to build a small group of
+services to manage links for us. Previously we'd use internal wiki's or
+external services for this but after a while it became kind of tedious.
+
+[Netlandish]: https://www.netlandish.com "Netlandish"
+
+Basically we wanted to roll our Pinboard, Bitly and Linktr.ee accounts into one
+easily manageable platform. We may have gotten carried away with everything
+we've added but we're pretty happy with it so far.
+
+We've migrated all of our external data over and been using it in production
+for nearly 6 months now. As of today, registration is open to the public.
+
+Right now the following domains are provided for you to use with LinkTaco.
+
+- **linktaco.com** - Social bookmarking / link management
+- **linkta.co** - URL shortening
+- **links.ht** - Link listings (ie, link-in-bio)
+
+If you feel like supporting the ongoing development of the platform you can pay
+for a subscription for just a few bucks per year. Doing so will get you some
+extra benefits, such as:
+
+- Use your custom domains + SSL for each service
+- Full analytics (free accounts are limited to 2 months)
+
+If you're a business and want to use LinkTaco for more collaboration with staff
+members you can pay a few bucks per month and get the following additional
+benefits:
+
+- Unlimited team member collaboration
+- External integrations (Slack, MatterMost)
+
+You can see what's included on the [features page][fp]. If you're looking for
+an account for an open-source project or perhaps you want paid features but you
+can't afford it, please write to [hello@linktaco.com][hlt] and explain the
+situation and we will consider sponsoring your account.
+
+[fp]: https://linktaco.com/pricing "Features list"
+[hlt]: mailto:hello@linktaco.com
+
+## Why?
+
+Honestly we wanted to play around more with Go servers/applications and
+GraphQL. A big inspiration for us is the [Sourcehut][srht] community and since
+we're fairly active there and have contributed a number of patches we sort of
+wanted to follow suit of their current movement towards Go/GraphQL. This was a
+good way for us to learn a bit more and have something fun to work on during
+our free time.
+
+What started as a small project slowly turned into something more as we began to
+use it more and decided there were other pieces missing that are important to
+us. We figured they'd be important to others as well so we just kept building.
+And here we are.
+
+We don't know of another service that offers all of these features in one
+platform and with a full API to perform all actions. This lets us automate or
+customize our own, and our clients, workflows exactly how we want.
+
+[srht]: https://sourcehut.org "Sourcehut"
+
+## Contributing
+
+We'd love your help with bug fixing, feature development, design or UI
+improvements, or just general feedback. We'd like to build this little platform
+into a tight knit group that is designed to serve the community.
+
+We have the code repo, mailing list, and ticket tracker all linked to on the
+[project page][oss]. The project README will have more info on how specifically
+to contribute but the best way is to subscribe to the development mailing list,
+check out the issue tracker, get familiar with the code, kick the tires of the
+product, and start giving feedback.
+
+It's highly appreciated!
+
+## Conclusion
+
+We're pretty excited to see people using the service and get their thoughts. We
+know that every bell and whistle isn't here and that's a good thing. We can
+build it out to include what the community wants. That's the idea anyway.
+
+So please [register an account][reg] and start importing your bookmarks, etc.
+Try out the various features and let's get started making this service better
+together.