Liinks
👤 Charlie Clark (Designer-engineer who builds and runs Liinks solo. Reused a prior app's code, so costs are tiny and the $4 price still profits.)🌐 sitecharlieclark.co𝕏LinkedIn
Charlie Clark rebuilt a cheaper Linktree solo and grew it to $25K/mo with no staff and about $50/mo of costs.
Will it work? · our read
Priced to win. A tidy, well-run niche: real customers, real margins, no moat but price and taste. Easy to admire, hard to defend if a funded rival ever decides $4/mo is worth chasing.
01How the money moves
Creator needs one link for their bio
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Builds a custom page in minutes
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Pays $4-10/mo to keep it live
02The numbers
$25K/moStatedMRR, Oct 2024 (founder)
2024-10source:
about $26,204/mo (Stripe)
Founder's own figures, Oct 2024; run with no staff. Starter Story
About 5,300 paying creators; solo-run, 80-90% margins.
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- The CENTS scorecard — where it's strong, where it's soft
- The founder's key move, and the counter-move
- How it could die — the evidence, and how sure we are
- The case against our own call
- A 🚀 launchpad prompt — the case, as a plan for your business
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See a full teardown, free → Transistor.fmSourcesSources last checked 27 July 2026
Starter Story — Charlie Clark's first-person Liinks breakdown ($26.2K/mo, 5,300 customers, Oct 2024)Indie Hackers — solo founder carved a $25K/mo niche by undercuttingUndefeated Underdogs podcast — Charlie Clark on taking Liinks to $300K+ ARRLatka — third-party estimate: about $328.9K ARRLiinks pricing page
Revenue is STATED, not filed. The $25K+/mo (precise $26,204/mo), 5,300 paying customers and 80-90% margins all come from Charlie Clark's own first-person Starter Story breakdown (published Oct 22, 2024), corroborated by his Indie Hackers posts and the Undefeated Underdogs interview ('$300K+ ARR'). Latka independently estimates about $328.9K ARR, roughly consistent. Nothing is audited. Background is his own words: 'My background is in design and software engineering'; he built VSUAL first and reused its code, and runs Liinks solo on React/Node/Mongo with DigitalOcean + AWS S3 at about $50/mo. Product Hunt launch hit about 300 upvotes and a #8 homepage rank. Rival weights are our rough read of reach, not revenue. verified:true on first-party disclosure. We never score you.