BlinkLink Blog

Launch retrospectives, opinions about QR codes, and the occasional honest privacy disclosure.

• We launched. Here's what's actually inside.

  Three years of yak-shaving condensed into one shipped product. A short tour of what we built and what we deliberately didn't.

  2026-05-19

• Why QR codes still matter in 2026.

  They became uncool, then essential, then uncool again. Then 2020 happened. Here's why we put real effort into ours.

  2026-04-22

• Short links that don't sell you to anyone.

  A walking tour of every cookie we set, every analytics call we make, and every audience network we said no to.

  2026-04-08

• Custom domains in five minutes (mostly waiting for DNS).

  A walking tour of how go.yourbrand.com gets to bnkl.me without breaking anything: DNS, TXT verification, automatic SSL, all of it.

  2026-05-22

• Two roles. Six seats. Same shared library.

  Teams shipped quietly. Here's the full role matrix, the invite flow, and why we landed on three roles instead of the usual five.

  2026-05-21

• Same short link. Different destination depending on who clicks it.

  Routing rules let one link send phones to the App Store, desktops to your homepage, and Berlin visitors to the German landing page. Real examples inside.

  2026-05-20

• Designing a QR that doesn't look like 2009.

  Colour, dot shape, logo embedding, error correction. Five practical rules from a year of obsessing over our QR designer.

  2026-05-19