I spent a few days building a Linktree clone . Public creator pages with free links anyone can click and premium links gated behind a one-time payment. Creators set their own unlock price, drag links into the order they want, and pick from a palette of accent colors. The whole thing is on GitHub .

The dashboard and the public profile page were the parts I expected to take time. They didn't, honestly — standard React with react-server-actions and dnd-kit. What I was actually dreading was the monetization layer: routing money to individual creators, identity verification so creators can legally receive payouts, an embedded balance and withdrawal UI, and webhooks that don't double-process when Whop retries. That's the kind of stack that turns a side project into months of paperwork.

I ended up using Whop for all of it: OAuth, connected accounts, KYC, direct charges, embedded payout portal, and webhooks.

What's in the box

It's a link-in-bio platform.…