From d50440b8a1edb7137d860a50e5e73fe6989d85f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Sanchez Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:18:01 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Adding announcement blog post --- .gitignore | 1 + content/announcing-link-taco.md | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 107 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/announcing-link-taco.md diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 2a83c74..9acbc0f 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ public/ resources/ test-article.md .hugo_build.lock +wring.sh diff --git a/content/announcing-link-taco.md b/content/announcing-link-taco.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..460fd00 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/announcing-link-taco.md @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ ++++ +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 ++++ + +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. -- 2.45.2