Linktree is not a portfolio (a link in bio for developers)

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Linktree does one thing well. It gives you a tidy list of links for your bio. For a musician pushing people to five streaming platforms, that is exactly the right tool. For a developer, a list of links is a menu, not a meal.

A link list points, a portfolio shows

On Linktree, your GitHub is one row among many. Someone has to click out, land on a wall of repos, and guess which one is worth their time. The page never shows your work. It just gestures in its direction and hopes the visitor follows.

What a dev bio link should do

Show three to six projects with a screenshot and a one-liner, right there on the page. Show your stack. Then link out to GitHub and the live demos. The viewer sees what you built before they decide whether to click, which is the entire reason they will click.

When Linktree is fine

If you genuinely just need a link hub and you do not have projects to show yet, keep it. There is no shame in using the right tool for what you have. But if you have shipped things, a row of links is selling you short. People should be able to see the work without leaving the page.