I Killed My $15/Month Linktree Bill with Grok Build

Just killed my $15/month Linktree bill.

I told Grok Build to recreate my entire link-in-bio page. It pulled the live links, matched the vibe, and published it.

Now it is live at wikiwayne.grok.me.

Own the page. Zero monthly fee. Full control.

That was the X post. This is the longer version for anyone still paying a middleman to host nine URLs.

The product I was actually buying

Linktree is not a website. It is rent on a list.

My real destinations already existed:

• WikiWayne — the publication
• X (@wikiwayne)
• GitHub, LinkedIn, YouTube
• Sunny Glen, SOG Properties, Scale by SEO
• Games, contact

WikiWayne already has a first-party bio page at /links. Linktree was the lazy URL I pasted into X because everyone else did. Fifteen dollars a month for that is how SaaS wins: you forget it is a spreadsheet with extra branding.

What I asked Grok Build to do

Not "make me a startup." Three jobs:

1. Pull the live links — do not invent a new identity.
2. Match the vibe — red WikiWayne, not purple AI sludge.
3. Publish — a URL I can put in an X bio today.

It did. The page is not the canonical site. wikiwayne.com is. grok.me is the disposable, iterable bio surface. If Grok Build disappears tomorrow I still have /links. That is the whole architecture: generate fast, own a backup.

Why this belongs on WikiWayne

I spend a lot of words on local AI and hardware. Grok Build is the other half of how I actually work in 2026: vibe-code the small surfaces so the homelab can stay on models and games.

I also posted the same day that I like the Grok app's "Enhance your post" button. Same family of tools. One writes the bio page. One stops me from shipping a typo to 900 people. Neither replaces the GX10. They replace busywork vendors.

If you want the local-hardware thread, that is the Ascent GX10 notes. If you want the "I shipped a game without a cloud model" thread, that is Moon Trail on Flash.

When you should not use Grok Build

• Legal, payments, or medical — do not let a generator be your only copy of anything that can hurt someone.
• SEO canonicals — keep the real site on a domain you control. I did.
• Anything you cannot rebuild in an afternoon — if the page is the business, it should be in git on your box.

A link-in-bio is the perfect Grok Build job because it is shallow and public. A 300-post publication is not.

The 2026 version of "just build it"

For years "just build it" meant a weekend of HTML. Then it meant a $15/month no-code tax. Now it can mean: describe the page, publish, cancel the subscription, keep a first-party clone.

I am not anti-tool. I am anti-renting a list of my own URLs.

If you still have Linktree in the bio, price it against an afternoon. Mine is already gone.