Every one of us has more than one thing to point at. A blog here, a shop there, a playlist, a portfolio, a Discord, a newsletter, the account you actually post from. Most platforms give you one line to put a link in, so you pick one and the rest goes unseen.
Opntr.ee is one page that holds all of them, at one short address, and it is built on Hive.
Today it opens to anyone with a Hive account, and it is free.
A link in bio page. Your name, your picture, a line about you, and as many links as you want, in the order you want them, with a short note under any of them so people know what they are clicking.
One address, everything behind it
The part that makes it different is where it lives. Your page is not a row in our database. It is one signed operation on the Hive blockchain, published under your own account, with your own posting key. That has three consequences worth stating plainly:
No card, no trial, no limit on the number of links. If you have a Hive account, you have an Opntr.ee page. You sign in with Keychain, write your page, and sign it. That is the whole thing.
About pricing, honestly: there will be cheap paid tiers in the near future. They will be additions, things that sit on top of the page: extra features, and the service of not having to touch the technical part. What will not change is that the page itself is published under your name and stays yours. We are saying this now rather than surprising you with it in six months.
We are not finished
Opntr.ee is early. It works, it is public, and it is nowhere near done. Here is what is actually on the table:
More of the page under your control. More kinds of blocks, more of the layout, more ways to make it look like you rather than like us. The design system is already yours to change: colours, edges, type, spacing, how loud your links are.
User verification. Anybody can register a name on Hive, so a name by itself is not proof of who is behind it. We want a way for a page to show that it really is who it says it is, without turning it into an identity check that nobody asked for. We are still working out the right shape for this.
Analytics, if the law allows it properly. A lot of people want to know how many people clicked. We are in the Netherlands, so the GDPR (the AVG here) applies, and we would rather find out first whether we can do this in a way that is genuinely privacy respecting than ship a tracker and apologise later. If it turns out we cannot do it cleanly, we will not do it. Right now this site holds nothing about its visitors: no accounts, no tracking, no advertising pixels, no cookies.
Because the problem with every link in bio product is that it is a page about you, owned by somebody else. The company decides what it looks like, whether it stays up, and what it costs next year. That is a strange arrangement for the one page that represents you everywhere.
Hive already solves this. Accounts are real, they are yours, they are portable, and they have a history anybody can check. Putting a link page there was not a clever idea, it was the obvious one.
There is a second reason. Every Opntr.ee page is a normal Hive page that happens to point outward. If you share your address in a bio on another platform, the people who follow it land on something published from Hive. That is a small door into the chain that does not require anybody to care about the chain first. We would like there to be a lot of those doors.
We publish under the OpenAttribute convention, with a registered name, so any Hive developer meeting one of these operations can look up what it is and build on it. The format is open. If somebody wants to write a better reader than ours, nothing stops them, and that is on purpose.
Who is behind it
Ruben Cress, founder of RAWWW.®
That is the team. It is small, it is honest work, and it is being built in public.
Go to opntr.ee, sign in with Hive Keychain, and claim your page. It takes about a minute, it costs nothing, and the address is opntr.ee/ followed by your Hive name.
If you make one, reply with your link. I would genuinely like to see them.
Questions, criticism and feature requests are all welcome in the comments. If something about this is unclear, say so and I will answer it.
