Building a page
The creator studio screen by screen - profile, links and their kinds, locks, the now pin, scheduled links, A/B title tests, look, share and settings.
5 min readUpdated Oct 17, 2026Applies to LinkNest 1.0.0
On this page
Everything a creator does happens in the studio at /dashboard. This page walks through it in the order a new creator meets it. The four headline modules have their own pages: Live status, Faces and schedules, Place commerce and the AI page co-pilot.
Claiming a username
After sign-up, /onboarding asks for a display name and a username: 3 to 24 letters, numbers or underscores, checked for availability as you type. The page is published straight away at /u/<username>. A creator can change the username later under Settings; the old address then stops working.
The studio at a glance
| Screen | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Home | This week's views and taps, money earned this week, one thing to fix, the top link, the live status editor and, when switched on, the weekly letter |
| Links | Profile, links, extra pages (faces), socials and A/B title tests |
| Look | Theme, typeface, button style, accent colour and background photo |
| Share | Copy the page URL, download a QR code, a lock-screen wallpaper and a story image |
| Co-pilot | The AI page co-pilot |
| Earn | Tips, products and payouts; see Earn and payouts |
| Place | Venue details, specials and table QR codes; see Place commerce |
| Audience | Collected emails, CSV export and broadcasts; see Audience, inbox and tools |
| Insights | Visits, taps, places, devices and hours; see Analytics |
| Tools | Business cards, caption planner, keyword replies, link shortener, post ideas |
| Inbox | Messages left on the public page |
| Settings | Billing, username, publish, tip button, email capture, weekly letter, place mode, team, guest pages and custom domain |
Screens that the creator's plan does not include are marked with a Pro or Premium badge and open with an upgrade prompt. Which screens those are depends on the feature keys in each plan; see Selling it as SaaS.
Profile
At the top of Links: display name (up to 48 characters), bio (up to 160) and a profile photo. Photos are cropped square in the browser, resized and saved in the database; there is no separate file storage.
Links
Add link creates a link at the bottom of the current page; drag to reorder. Each link has:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Title and URL | Titles up to 80 characters. A link still pointing at a bare https:// is flagged on Home as having no real URL. |
| Kind | url (a button), youtube (an embedded player), spotify (an embedded player), booking (a button marked "Book a time") or product (a button with a price label you type, such as "$28") |
| Visible | Hide a link without deleting it. |
| Show from / until | Schedule a link: it appears and disappears at those times. |
| Picture | A 16:9 image shown above the button, cropped in the browser. |
| Page | Which face the link belongs to. See Faces and schedules. |
| Pin as now | Highlights one link at the top of the page with an optional label (up to 40 characters) and end time. Pinning a link unpins the previous one. |
| Lock | See below. |
The product kind is a labelled link to wherever you sell. To take payment on the page itself, use products under Earn.
Locks
| Lock | What the visitor does | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Age gate | Confirms "I'm 18+" | A click-through, not age verification. |
| Email to unlock | Enters an email address | The address is added to the creator's subscribers. |
| Password | Enters the password you set | Compared on the server. Password and email unlocks are limited to 20 tries per visitor IP every 10 minutes, and 600 per page per hour. |
| Tip to unlock | Pays a tip of at least the amount you set (minimum $1, default $5) | Needs a payment gateway. See Earn and payouts. |
A locked link's URL is not sent to the browser until the lock is passed.
A/B title tests
At the bottom of Links, pick a link and enter two titles. Visitors are split between them, each visitor consistently seeing the same title, and taps are counted per title. Stop & apply winner ends the test, picks the title with more taps (a tie goes to the first title) and renames the link to it. One test can run per link at a time. There is no significance calculation: stop when the gap is clear.
A/B tests need the experiments key (Pro and Premium as created by the migrations), which is checked on the server. On a page whose plan does not include it, tests cannot be started or stopped, and running tests are paused: visitors see the link's own title.
Socials
Eight icons can sit on the page: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Spotify, LinkedIn, email and website.
Look
| Setting | Options |
|---|---|
| Theme | 18 colour themes. Plans without the themes_all key get the first 6. |
| Typeface | 9 typefaces. Plans without the fonts key get Sora, Fraunces and the system font. |
| Buttons | Soft, pill, square, outline, sharp or round |
| Accent and background | One accent colour and a background photo. The photo needs the custom_bg key. |
The preview on the right updates as you click.
Share
Share shows the page address (the verified custom domain when there is one) and three downloads made in the browser: a QR code, a phone lock-screen wallpaper and a 1080 by 1920 story image. The QR code encodes your real page address; the caption printed on the wallpaper and story images is a hard-coded linknest.app/<username> in 1.0.0 (see Known limitations).
Settings
| Section | What it does |
|---|---|
| Billing | Shows the plan; Change plan opens /pricing; Manage card opens the Stripe customer portal for Stripe subscribers. |
| Username | Change the username. |
| Publish | Unpublished pages show "This page is empty" to visitors. |
| Support button | The tip button's label and an optional external tip URL, used when no gateway is connected. |
| Collect emails | Adds a subscribe field to the page. |
| Weekly letter | Shows a written weekly recap on Home with a copyable share line. It is not emailed in 1.0.0. |
| This is a place | Turns on the place card: address, hours, Wi-Fi. See Place commerce. |
| Team | Records teammates' emails with an editor or analyst role. In 1.0.0 this is a list only: teammates do not get access to the studio. |
| Guest page | Creates a temporary page for a collaboration at /u/<username>/<guest-name>, which expires after 7 days. |
| Custom domain | See Custom domains. |
The public page
A published page lives at /u/<username>, and at the root of a verified custom domain. From top to bottom it can show: the profile photo, name and bio, the live status strip, socials, tabs for extra faces, a monthly tip goal, the place card and specials, the links (with the now pin first), products, the support button, the subscribe field, a message form (when the plan includes inbox) and, unless the plan includes hide_branding, the platform mark.
Every visit and tap is recorded for Analytics.