why pawr
I've spent a decade working with and building digital products; every new product I've seen follows the same trajectory led by VCs, metrics, advertisement, corporate and pure capitalist mindset.
It hit me when I saw that bento.me is shutting down – it was one of the most loved products I've seen come out; it was free and created an enormous amount of energy which led to creation of many copy-paste products to match bento and Linktree – which acquired it a few years back – decided to shut it down and delete all user data while offering only a small discount to Linktree for a couple months.
I felt that a product like bento deserved to live further, so I tried to replicate it – that was December 2025 when Claude made a leap in agentic capabilities.
Fast forward four months I've got a fully functional and better in many aspects – a rich and powerful link in bio platform with a bento grid.
What makes pawr powerful?
- Rich data pulled from every link you paste: icon, title and custom richer data with supported sites that we are expanding every week.
- It's the most efficient build tech-wise you can find in the startup world today.
- Hidden blockchain integration with Base to power payments – they feel instant and have basically no fees – a big upgrade over traditional finance, designed so you don't even notice (payment features are not live yet).
- Fully accessible to agents: we're the first agent-friendly link-in-bio where agents can sign up on their own and give their human an optional claim link to help manage the page. The same is true from the discovery perspective – each page on pawr.link is agent-readable and x402 rails are built in so it becomes a small economy on its own.
pawr is a long-term bet on creativity
If you think about it, all corporations and big platforms are limiting your freedom and creativity; they make simple things so complicated you have to spend days and weeks to understand and do basic things. They have such massive scale that you can barely reach anyone from the company when something isn't working right; at their scale they can't do quality product and user experience – that's where pawr comes in and delivers.
a note from me
I spent the last two months building this in the most humane way I know how, with the best of what's available today – internet-first, on my own terms, no VC and no growth team in the room. If any of that resonates, make a page on pawr.link. Tell me what's missing. DMs are open and I read everything.
– Max · baseddesigner.eth · full launch thread
