When your link in bio service shuts down: how to save your page

What happened

A shutdown does not only take the page down. It takes the address with it, and the address is the part you handed out. Every business card, every QR code on a jar, every video description you can no longer edit and every article somebody else wrote about you points at a domain that now belongs to a company with no reason to keep it working.

Do this today, before anything is announced

It takes about twenty minutes and it is the whole difference between an inconvenient week and a lost audience.

1. Find the export button and press it now, rather than in the week you need it. If you cannot find one at all, that is your answer about the tool, and the rest of this list matters more.
2. Save the links as plain text. Open a note and write one line per row: the label, then the destination URL. A bio page is a list of labels and URLs with a coat of paint, and this file rebuilds it anywhere in fifteen minutes. Keep it in the same place as your passwords, not on the desktop.
3. Save a real copy of the page: a file that opens with a double click and still has working links in it. A screenshot cannot be clicked and cannot be searched.
4. Export your email list if you collected one. Subscriber lists are usually the first thing that becomes unreachable, because they live in the vendor’s database rather than in your page.
5. Put the address on a domain you own. This is the only step that protects the printed copies. A domain costs about ten dollars a year and it means the page can move and the address cannot break.

When the notice arrives

You will typically get between six weeks and a few months. Spend the first hour of it and then forget about the deadline.

• Export first, before you look at whatever migration partner the shutdown email is recommending. Discount codes are a sales channel for somebody; your data is not.
• Build the new page from your plain text list. Same labels, same order, so that nobody who knew the page notices.
• Update the profile links you control. The usual list: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Twitch, your email signature, your Etsy or Shopify about page, your podcast feed, your Spotify artist profile, and your GitHub if you have one.
• Then handle the ones you do not control. Write to the two or three people whose articles or directory listings send you real traffic. For printed material, a domain of your own is the only fix, which is why it is on the previous list.

If the service is already dead

You can usually still recover the contents. Go to web.archive.org, paste the old address of your page, and pick a snapshot from before the shutdown. The labels will be readable and the destination URLs are in the saved HTML: right-click, view source, and search for http to pull them out. This works for Koji and Bento pages, and it is how most people rebuilt.

If the page is not in the archive, check your own phone. The page you shared in a chat six months ago is still in that conversation, and the preview card often carries the title and the first few rows.

What to look for in the next one

Skip the promises about longevity; every one of the four services above had a confident about page. Look at the mechanics. An export that runs without contacting support, a file format you can read without their software, and a custom domain, so that the address stays yours after the tool stops being anything.

It is what we built linkfree around, because it is the only durable thing a free product can honestly offer. Export gives you a JSON file with every link, section and setting, plus a standalone HTML copy of the page that opens with a double click and needs no server. The custom domain is included and registered in your name.