Independent open-source product
OnlyLinks
A place to save what is worth keeping and discover what curious people are reading.
- Authorship
- Solo product
- Role
- Product, design, and engineering
- Status
- Live
- License
- MIT
In 2017, I lost my favorite place on the internet.
When del.icio.us shut down, I tried Pinboard, KiFi, Raindrop, TagPacker, and Google Bookmarks. None was simple enough. Something was always missing or getting in the way.
Years later, I decided to build exactly what I wanted to use: a clean place to keep references, find them quickly, and follow people with interesting curation.
Your bookmarks say a lot about who you are.
OnlyLinks brings social bookmarking back into an environment dominated by algorithmic feeds. You save links, organize them with tags, search quickly, and follow people whose curiosity is worth following.
A complete tool in every context.
The desktop experience prioritizes search, density, and collection management. The PWA reorganizes the same product for saving and consulting references on the move.
The product is built around five choices.
Speed
Full-text search and direct interactions without unnecessary steps.
Tags, not folders
A link can belong to multiple contexts without a rigid hierarchy.
Social curation
Profiles and follows turn individual collections into shared discovery.
Portability
Import, export, bookmarklet, extension, and PWA keep the collection accessible.
Ownership
Open source, an MIT license, and data organized on a simple SQLite foundation.
A product built with AI throughout the workflow.
AI participated as a product, architecture, and implementation tool. I directed the decisions, integrated the parts, and took the complete system into production.
- Product
- PRD structured with Gemini
- Architecture
- SDD developed with Antigravity
- Implementation
- Code developed with Claude
- Infrastructure
- Deployed on a Hostinger VPS
- Services
- Resend and Google OAuth
A small product by choice. Complete by construction.
OnlyLinks is my ongoing experiment in curation, independent software, and the value of tools that do one thing with clarity. The code is open for anyone who wants to use, study, or contribute.