Liinks for Science: Branded Research Profile Pages for Academics

Problem: Academic researchers scatter their professional identity across ORCID, Google Scholar, lab websites, personal blogs, Twitter/X, and preprint servers. When a collaborator, journalist, hiring committee, or grad student wants to find a researcher's papers, datasets, and lab, they hit a maze of stale personal sites and inconsistent profiles. Generic tools like Linktree solve the link-aggregation problem but know nothing about publications, citations, or datasets, so researchers manually paste links that go out of date the moment a new paper drops. Product: Liinks for Science is a branded research profile page that gives every academic a single, clean URL surfacing their papers, datasets, lab, and social profiles. Solution: The differentiator is auto-sync from ORCID and Google Scholar, so a researcher's publication list updates itself whenever they publish, and the page stays current without manual editing. MVP: A hosted profile page with ORCID and Google Scholar import, drag-and-drop link blocks for lab, datasets, and socials, and a customizable theme with the researcher's name as a vanity URL. Revenue: Freemium SaaS. Free tier for a basic profile; paid tier (individual subscription) for custom domains, analytics on who views the profile, richer publication widgets, and lab/team pages. Institutions and labs are a natural upsell for multi-member pages. GTM: Seed via academic Twitter/X and Bluesky where researchers already share their work, target PhD students on the job market who need a polished presence, and pursue lab-level and departmental deals. Growth loops: Every published profile carries a subtle branded footer, and each researcher's page links to co-authors, creating organic discovery; job-market season drives seasonal signup spikes.