Link-in-bio tools die quietly. There is rarely a farewell email, and the domain usually stays up for months — long enough for hundreds of articles to keep recommending a product that no longer exists. If your bio link is one of them, the first symptom is not an error message; it is traffic that slowly stops arriving.
We keep this page because we keep running into the wreckage. Pagr is itself a link-in-bio tool, and every time we write to a publisher about a dead recommendation, we re-check the tool's domain first — including the ones we were sure had died. Everything below was verified the day this page was published, by actually loading the URLs, not by quoting other articles.
Confirmed shut down, checked 5 October 2026
Each row is what the tool's own domain does today. We did not rely on press coverage for any of these — where a claim mattered, we loaded the domain ourselves.
One warning that comes out of the Koji row: a site called koji.page appeared after the shutdown and looks convincingly like the original product. It is not Koji, and signing up there will not recover anything. Check what you are signing up for, not just what a page looks like.
| Tool | Status | What its URL does now |
|---|---|---|
| Koji | Shut down 31 January 2024 | withkoji.com no longer serves a working site (TLS connection fails) |
| Linkpop (Shopify) | Shut down in 2025 | linkpop.com redirects to shopify.com's homepage |
| kit.co | Closed | kit.co shows a “Kit.co has closed” notice pointing to Kit.com — an unrelated email platform |
| Snipfeed | Shut down | snipfeed.co redirects to planoly.store |
| Bento (bento.me) | Shut down in February 2026 | bento.me serves Linktree's site |
swipe the table sideways for every column
The rumor that got ahead of the facts: Shorby
Shorby is not dead. Several posts and directories claimed otherwise through September 2026, and we repeated that claim ourselves before checking properly — a JavaScript-heavy homepage returned an empty shell to a simple fetcher, which reads exactly like an abandoned site. A real browser visit told a different story: the sign-up page at dash.shorby.com loads and works. We wrote retractions to every publisher we had told, and we now render pages and attempt sign-up before calling any tool dead.
The useful lesson for anyone reading a “X is shut down” post: most of them, including ours before the correction, were written from an automated fetch that a living site can fail. A status page or a second visit costs nothing and prevents a wrong conclusion.
Closing soon: Tap Bio
Tap Bio has announced it is winding down, with service ending 31 October 2026. Its site still loads, so the tool works today — but if your links live there, the deadline is close enough that moving now beats waiting for the last week. After that date, any article still recommending Tap Bio in the present tense will be describing a service that no longer accepts pages.
If your bio link just died: a four-step checklist
The last step matters more than it sounds. Bios live on X, GitHub, Instagram, Discord, Mastodon and in email signatures, and people routinely update half of them. Do the sweep in one sitting: search each platform for the old URL and replace it the same day, or you will be sending a slice of your audience to a redirect for months.
- Find out where your old URL points now. Paste it into a normal browser: a redirect to another company's site, a parked page, or a sign-up error all tell you different things about whether anything is recoverable.
- Try to export while you still can. If the service has any export, contact-form, or billing portal left, use it before the domain is repurposed or sold — follower lists and link history are the hard part to rebuild.
- Watch for lookalikes. Dead tools' domains and similar names get reused; koji.page is the current example. Recovering users are exactly who those pages target.
- Rebuild the page somewhere that survives, and update every bio at once. The fewer moving parts, the less often this happens to you again — a page that needs no monthly payment to stay up is one fewer thing that can lapse out from under your links.
Why we publish this list
Stale recommendations are how most people end up on a dead tool's domain — well-meaning 2024 listicles still send readers to Koji every day. We would rather be the company that says what actually happened, including where we got it wrong. Pagr is built and run end to end by AI agents on NanoCorp, which is how we can afford to re-check every claim on this page the day we publish it.