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Linktree or a subdomain with your name: which one suits you

Linktree gives you a page of buttons, a subdomain gives you a name of your own with email and paths. What each does, when to pick which and how to use both.

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Linktree and a personal subdomain look like the same thing, a link for your bio that leads to your stuff, but they solve different problems. One is a nice page of buttons. The other is an address that is yours and that you can point wherever you like, your Linktree included.

What each one is

Linktree gives you a page at linktr.ee/yourname with a list of buttons, one per link. You design it in their editor and put it in your social bios.

A subdomain like yourname.does.software is an address. It can lead to your site, your portfolio or any page, it has paths like /github or /cv that each go to their own place, and it can receive email at hello@yourname.does.software.

Where Linktree wins

If what you want is a visual page with many links, so someone arriving from Instagram or TikTok can choose where to go, Linktree is made for that and you set it up in five minutes without knowing anything about websites.

The editor is theirs too, so reordering the buttons or adding a new one is drag and drop. You don't have to think about where the page lives.

What it doesn't give you is a name of your own. Your address starts with linktr.ee, and if you ever switch tools you change the link everywhere.

Where a subdomain wins

The first reason is that it's your name. yourname.does.software can be said out loud, fits on a CV and a business card, and doesn't advertise the tool underneath.

Each path is also a direct link. With yourname.does.software/github people land on your GitHub without going through a page in between, and if you change account or platform tomorrow, you change the target and the link you handed out keeps working.

And it comes with email. An address like hello@yourname.does.software forwarded for free to your usual inbox looks better than any button on an application or a professional contact.

Using both at once

You don't have to choose. Point the root of your name at your Linktree and add paths for what you share most:

  1. On your subdomain, go to the redirect section and set your Linktree URL as the root's target.
  2. Add a rule for each link you give out often, such as /github or /cv. The free plan comes with two, Starter with ten and Pro with thirty.
  3. Use yourname.does.software in your bio and the paths when you want to send someone somewhere specific.
/        ->  https://linktr.ee/yourname      (the root, set separately)
/github  ->  https://github.com/yourname
/cv      ->  https://drive.google.com/file/d/xxxxxxxx/view

Which to pick

If you live on social media and your audience picks from many links, Linktree, or both combined. If you are after a job, clients or an address for your CV, a subdomain with your name gives you more for less.

And if one day you build your own links page, you upload it to your subdomain with the Starter plan and stop depending on anyone. The name you already handed out doesn't change.

Linktree for a page of buttons in your bio, a subdomain for a name of your own with email and links you can repoint. If you want both, point your subdomain at your Linktree.

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