🚀 Major Product Update: Link-in-Bio v2 is LIVE! (Interactive Carousels, Live Embeds, Accordion Folders & 1-Click Industry Templates)

Hey Sumo-lings! 👋

When we launched SimpleURL on AppSumo, one of the most requested features from founders, agencies, and creators was:

"Can we replace our $10–$24/month Linktree / Bento subscriptions with SimpleURL on our own custom domains?"

Today, we are thrilled to roll out Link-in-Bio v2 — a complete architectural overhaul of our bio page builder. It transforms SimpleURL from a standard link list into a full, high-converting mobile micro-landing page builder.

Best of all: this is included in your existing AppSumo tier — no extra fees, no hidden add-ons.

🌟 What’s New in Bio Pages v2?

1. 📸 Interactive Media Carousels

Showcase products, portfolios, and property tours with swipeable, responsive carousels:

• Multiple Aspect Ratios: 16:9 widescreen, 4:5 vertical portrait (ideal for product drops & lookbooks), and 1:1 square.

• Engaging Controls: Autoplay, loop, touch swipe, slide captions, and direct destination links on every image.

2. ⚡ Live Embedded Widgets (Zero Redirects)

Keep visitors on your page while they engage:

• Audio & Video: Spotify embed player (stream tracks or podcast episodes inline) and YouTube videos.

• Direct Scheduling: Embed Calendly, Cal.com, or CalendarJet so leads can book a demo or consulting call right inside your bio page.

• Lead Capture & Surveys: Seamlessly embed Tally and Typeform forms for VIP email lists, quiz funnels, or quote requests.

3. 📂 Collapsible Accordion Folders (group block)

Got lots of links or resources? Organize them into clean, collapsible drawers (e.g. “🎙️ Studio Gear”, “📚 Founder Tech Stack”, “🏡 Neighborhood Relocation Guides”). Keep your page minimal and uncluttered.

4. 💬 One-Tap Direct Contact CTAs

Make it effortless for high-intent clients to reach you directly:

• One-tap buttons for WhatsApp (with pre-filled chat messages), Direct Phone Call, SMS, and Email (with pre-filled subject lines).

5. 🔗 Automated Short Link Tracking

Whenever you add a link to your bio page, SimpleURL automatically provisions a background tracking link under your chosen domain. You get granular click analytics, device stats, and UTM attribution without manually generating links first!

6. 🚫 100% Unbranded

Your brand belongs to you. There is no forced "Built with..." badge or watermarks on your pages.

🎨 New: 1-Click Ready-to-Use Templates

You don't need to design from scratch. When you click Create Bio Page, you can now pick from battle-tested, fully configured layouts:

• 🏡 Real Estate Agency / Luxury Broker: High-res property tour carousel, showing scheduler, market reports folder, and WhatsApp VIP concierge.

• ⚡ Tech Founder & SaaS: Milestone metric card, product feature carousel, collapsible tech stack folder, and angel/advisory booking.

• 🎙️ Podcaster & Media Host: Inline Spotify episode player, YouTube watch CTA, studio gear accordion, and guest pitch button.

• 💼 Executive Coach & Consultant: Assessment scheduler, 4:5 client transformation carousel, and one-tap WhatsApp.

• 🥐 Local Cafe & Bakery: Live operating hours badge, 1:1 food gallery, PDF menu, and order-ahead buttons.

• ✨ DTC E-Commerce & Product Drop: Restock notice card, 4:5 lookbook carousel, and VIP club form.

• ⚪ Blank Canvas: For complete design freedom from a clean slate.

🛠️ How to Try It Today:

1. Log into your SimpleURL Dashboard.

2. Head to Bio Pages in the left sidebar.

3. Click Create Bio Page → choose your starting template → pick your branded custom domain (or free mylinkz.page handle) → start customizing!

💬 We’d Love Your Feedback!

Take the new v2 builder for a spin and let us know what you think in the discussions below. If you've been enjoying SimpleURL and our rapid release cycle, dropping an honest 5-taco review on our AppSumo listing means the world to our small team and fuels the roadmap!

What block or integration should we build next? (Gumroad? Buy Me a Coffee direct widget? Newsletter embed?) Let us know below! 👇

Hey Sumo-lings 👋

Big update today. We've launched Advanced Links, two features usually found on $30–40/month marketing plans:

🎯 Retargeting Pixels 🎭 Link Masking

And yes, every AppSumo tier gets access to both. You backed us early, and that matters.

🎯 Retargeting Pixels: build ad audiences from every click

Add your Meta Pixel, Google Tag / Ads, TikTok Pixel or LinkedIn Insight Tag to any short link. Anyone who clicks joins your retargeting audience, even if the link goes to a site you don't own.

Save your pixel IDs once, then add them to any link in a click.

What people use it for:

• Sharing other people's content: share a great article, a review or a press mention, and retarget the readers with your own ads later.

• Affiliate and partner links: build an audience from people who clicked an Amazon or partner link, even though you'll never get their visitor data.

• Guest posts, podcasts and interviews: put a pixel link in the show notes and turn someone else's audience into yours.

• Creators and influencers: every link in your bio or newsletter builds an audience you can advertise to later.

• Events: retarget people who clicked the registration link but didn't buy a ticket.

🎭 Link Masking: keep your brand in the address bar

With masking on, visitors see your branded short link in the address bar while the destination page loads underneath. Combined with your custom domain, it looks like your page from start to finish.

You also control the page title, description, social image and favicon, so the link looks polished when shared on social media or in chat apps.

What people use it for:

• Booking pages, forms and docs: your Calendly, Typeform, Notion or Google Form shows up as go.yourbrand.com/book.

• Landing pages built elsewhere: pages on a builder or a client's site still look like part of your brand.

• Agencies: send clients links that show their brand, not a third-party tool.

• Clean, memorable URLs: a long, messy destination stays hidden behind a short one.

💡 Quick note: some websites (e.g. Google, banks, some big social platforms) block being displayed inside other pages. For those, just use a normal redirect. Pixels still work on normal redirects.

⚡ Use them together

Turn on a pixel and masking on the same link, and every click builds your ad audience while showing your brand the whole way. That's the core of a paid-ads funnel, on a lifetime plan.

How to try it

1. Open Links → create or edit a link

2. Expand Retargeting Pixels → add your pixel ID → save

3. Expand Link Masking → toggle it on → click Fetch Metadata to fill in the title, description and favicon automatically

4. Share the link 🎉

Your plan includes an Advanced Links allowance, which you'll see in the link editor. Need more for a big campaign? Just reach out.

Thank you for being part of SimpleURL from the early days. Lots of what we build starts with your feedback in this tab, so keep it coming. 🙏

— Ronak, Founder of SimpleURL

Hey Sumo-lings! 👋

I’m thrilled to announce that we just dropped one of our most requested features for growth marketers, agencies, and e-commerce founders: Dynamic Links & Parameter Forwarding.

If you run ads, manage affiliates, or use UTMs, you know the pain of the "URL Shortener Sprawl"—creating 50 different short links for the exact same landing page just to track where the traffic came from.

Not anymore. We’ve turned your short links into intelligent routing engines.

Here is what is now live in your account:

• 🔄 100% Parameter Pass-Through (Zero Setup): Append any query parameter (UTMs, gclid, fbclid) to your short link, and we securely pass it through to your destination. Never lose your ROAS tracking data again.

• 🛠️ URL Macros (Placeholders): Use {placeholder} syntax in your destination URLs to create smart Tracking Templates. Pass affiliate IDs, personalize CRM paths, or dynamically route traffic with just one master link.

• 💰 Enterprise Tech, AppSumo Value: Legacy platforms like Bitly lock parameter passing behind their most expensive Enterprise tiers. For SimpleURL users? It’s included out-of-the-box.

You can see the visual breakdown of how it works and all the use-cases here: https://www.simpleurl.tech/dynamic-links

Stop duplicating your links just to track them. Go build your first Dynamic Link today, and let me know how you're using it in the comments below!

Keep crushing it,

Hey Sumo-lings! 👋

We’ve been listening closely, and today we’re thrilled to announce enhancement to SimpleURL’s analytics dashboard that will give you even more granular control over your traffic data.

📈 What’s New?

We’ve introduced Hourly Click Tracking!

Understanding exactly when your audience engages with your links is just as important as knowing where they come from. Whether you’re launching a new email campaign, dropping a link on social media, or tracking a live event, you need to see results as they happen.

Here’s what we’ve added:

• "Today" & "Yesterday" Filters: We've added dedicated quick-select filters to your analytics dashboard. No more manually selecting dates to see your immediate performance!

• Full 24-Hour Timeline: When you select Today or Yesterday, your Clicks Trend graph now automatically transforms into a precise 24-hour hourly breakdown.

• Spot the Spikes: You can now see the exact hour your traffic spiked (all properly synced to your local timezone), allowing you to optimize your future posting schedules.

🛠️ Where to find it?

Simply head over to your SimpleURL dashboard, click on the Analytics icon for any of your Short Links, QR Codes, or Link-in-Bio pages, and select "Today" or "Yesterday" from the new dropdown right above your Clicks Trend chart!

As always, you help us shape SimpleURL into the ultimate link management tool!

Keep crushing those campaigns! 💪

Cheers, The SimpleURL Team

Hey 👋

I'm Ronak, founder of SimpleURL.

Before this, I worked with clients who ran campaigns. The link shortener they used charged $35/month — not for enterprise features, just for branded links on their own domain and analytics that went deeper than "someone clicked."

I kept thinking: it's a URL redirect and a click counter. This should not cost $35/mo.

So I built it. Not as a startup pitch — as an internal tool. Every platform either charged per seat, gated analytics behind enterprise tiers, or made domain setup a multi-day DNS headache.

That last one bothered me the most. I watched a non-technical marketing manager spend 45 minutes on a support article about CNAME records, give up, and go back to generic links. So I built an AI assistant that detects your DNS provider, generates the exact records, and walks you through setup. 60 seconds. Done.

18 months later, 4,500+ users trust SimpleURL for their branded links, QR codes, and click analytics.

Quick answers to what you're probably wondering:

🆓 Free trial? Yes — 7-day free trial with full access, no credit card required. Try before you buy.

📦 Stacking? Not needed. Each code unlocks a higher tier. Buy 1 = Solo, 2 = Pro, 3 = Agency.

📧 Support? I answer support emails personally at contact@simpleurl.tech. No ticket queue, no chatbot.

What makes SimpleURL different:

🤖 AI domain setup — Paste your domain → AI detects your registrar → generates DNS records → connected in 60 seconds. No other link tool does this.

📍 City-level analytics — Not just countries. See which city, device, browser, and referrer — with up to 2 years of data retention (available on tier 2 & 3).

🔗 One dashboard for everything — Branded links, dynamic QR codes, link-in-bio pages, UTM tracking, and API access. No switching between tools.