Big news! Today we’re announcing that Bento was acquired by
@linktree_
🫱🏼🫲🏽 It's a symbiotic relationship — a collaboration between an experienced category leader and a driven, curious upstart.
↓ Read more about it on our blog
SOUND ON✨ We’re launching our first-ever interactive widget:
@Spotify
! 😻🎶
Music is a huge part of us. It reminds us of special moments in our lives and helps us express ourselves.
Add your fav songs or podcasts and let your peers listen in straight from your Bento 🎧💃🏽🕺🏻
We've just added the first 'rich widgets' for those platforms that are most integrated all over the Bento platform so far:
@github
,
@YouTube
,
@Twitter
&
@instagram
😍
Some of you have already discovered them. We'll be adding more verrry soon.
Excited to hear what you think 👇🏼
Bento is about helping you show your creativity and ingenuity! ✨
We're launching 3 rich widgets to help you do that. 🔥😍🔥
FIRST:
@figma
🚀🚀🚀🚀
Show the world what incredible products you're building!! 🧙
Introducing, Maps 🗺
Locations we live in define us - the sights, the sounds, the smells... They shape who we are ✨
Now, you can show the world where you’re based, where you’re from, or simply the places you love.
Enjoy the world tour! 💖
Bento is about self expression. About helping you show who you are! 🥰
Today, we launch: TEXT!!! 🔥📝
Make it pop, make it fun, make it yours! ✨
Tell the world what you’re thinking.
Today we’re launching Image & Video Cropping 🖼 🎥 ✂️
Say goodbye to visual limitations! Now, you can effortlessly crop and rearrange your visuals to perfection 👏🏻
Curate your page like a pro and create a stunning showcase of who you are 💫
Bento is two months old and thousaaaands of members deep - and now - we finally have account settings!! 😂🥰
You can now change your username or safely forget your password!🙃🧙
Introducing — Linkable Media Widgets 🤩🔗
Images, videos, GIFs, and notes can now link out to your favorite sites.
You can take your Bento to the next level and make it truly unique. The possibilities are now limitless - unleash your creativity! 🧑🏽🎨✨
Today we're introducing: Bento Explore ✨
This is a little homage to our early users and this amazingly inspiring & creative community.
Get inspired by the most creative Bentos 👇🏼
Bento is LIVE on
@ProductHunt
! 🥳
Our team’s super excited and we'd love your help in spreading the word! 💜
We’ve been hard at work to build the most beautiful, fun, and delightful link in bio, you've ever seen 🧙🏻♂️🪄✨✨
Let us know what you think 👇🏼
Today we're launching 'Magic Tweets' 🧙🏻♀️🪄✨
Bento Profile Updates shouldn’t go unnoticed - they are an opportunity to tell a new story and build your personal brand!
In seconds, our AI helps you craft cool Tweets about the changes on your profile ✍🏻 Give it a spin!
Ever wondered how many people viewed your Bento profile? 🤔📈
Introducing: Bento Profile Views
Go check your daily foot traffic 👣 … and there’s a little more 🌝
Win Bento Swaaag ❤️🔥
We’re approaching the last 10h of our Product Hunt launch day.
We will randomly select 5 winners who receive a surprise swag package 🎁
Simply upvote Bento on PH ⬆️ and RT this tweet 🔁
Woooow!!! We made it. THANK YOU!!! 💜🫡
#1
Product of the Day!
As a little thank you for all your amazing support we leave the sign-up open for another 24h 🎁
→ Just go to and claim your name 😎😏
Today we’re launching Bento Community Resources 🎨 🙌🏼
Discover beautiful custom widgets created by the Bento community ✨
↓ Submit your own files to be featured and inspire others
Guess what! 🤯
We just looked through this famous logo design book and discovered that a fellow swiss designer was inspired by the Bento logo, traveled back in time to the 60s and published it! 🤯😏🍱
Bento Explore now helps you look even betterrrrr 🪄✨✨
From now on, we're showing the lovely OG images of every featured Bento!
Let us know what you think 😍
Our
#5
has arrived! 😻👋🏻🍱
We're beyond excited to welcome
@chrcit
to the Bento Team!
Fun fact: Christian worked on a similar idea a few months back, talked about it on Twitter, we saw it, and approached him.
Read on 👇🏼
Bento Widgets Overview has arrived 👀🔥
We've been shipping fast in the past couple of months!
So here's an overview of aaaall the things you can add to your Bento by now.
Let us know what you think 💜
😍🥳🥳Guess what: We're moving into our very first reeeeaaaaal office tomorrow!!
So far we've been having our hub at a WeWork in Berlin but mostly work remotely anyways.
What's something we should definitely get? 😏
Btw, for our latest mobile update to work, we had to rebuild our whole grid from scratch... 🤯
This means - the design possibilities are now limitless! And it enabled us to sneak in some more exciting features for you.
Check them out below ↓
🌟 Ho Ho Ho... Big Christmas Update 🌟
Bento just got even richer!
From now on you can add images & videos.
That’s what happens when you want something so bad, you go build it extra fast 😏😝
Now the customisation of your bento is limitless.
Some things are unpredictable.
News dropped that
#Linktree
is being banned on Twitter and so are profiles using it. Bento, our link in bio tool, is not affected.
It takes a minute to migrate.
Comment or reach out - you’ll get access 🔥
Bento Explore is a celebration of our wonderful community, the talent they have, and the passion they carry! ❤️🔥
Today we added a new category: Collections
We're featuring 6 inspiring makers and their work below 👇🏼
Last week we celebrated our Product Hunt launch in our new office in Berlin - and the best part: all of our guests were bento users!
We had a blast 😻✨
Where should we do our next community event? 🙋🏼♀️
Inspired by our community, we've just added a nice little detail to our text widget:
Quotes ✍🏻💭
Whether you want to add some testimonials or customer reviews, or if you want to express yourself using a witty quote - we’ve got you covered 😻✨
We've just selected 5 new inspiring makers to be featured on Bento Explore 🌟🌟🌟
We encourage every one of you to apply to get featured if you think you or someone elseshould be on there.
We'll be reviewing the applications frequently! 🕵🏼♀️
Find the lucky ones below 👇🏼
📣 We've just shipped some amazing updates for you all
You've asked for it and we listened. We've been working hard on bringing these little presents to you in time for Christmas 🎅🏼
Check them out in detail below 👇🏼
It's this time of the year where everyone posts "end of year reviews" - aaaand so do we! 😜
We thought we create something extra special for you:
a) using our own product
b) sharing our founding story
What a year - onto 2023 💫 Lots to come!
Enjoy 🫶🏼
About 3 years ago I had a fun idea, "what if there was a linktree type site, but made of all sorts of widgets (twitter cards, notes, podcasts, etc)". I made a design but didn't know how to code it, so it sadly just sat in my Figma. Cool to see
@joinbento
actually making it real!
This is the team behind Bento 👋🏻
Reading all your messages, feedback, thoughts and ideas, while launching and eating 🍱🍱
This was so much fun. Let's do more!
And now we'll all need a good night' sleep, haha.
woah!?? we're nominated for the
#goldenkittyawards
💥
friends, pls vote for us and spread the word:
ps: if you choose 'no code' or 'product of the year' -- either would mean the world to us 🥹💜
The last 24h have been overwhelming.
Receiving so much love & positive feedback from the Twitter community has def exceeded all our expectations for yesterday's launch.
Simply: thank you 🥰
Wow 🤯
People told us we would never be able to make it to
#1
product of the week when launching on a Wednesday but it seems we might prove them wrong... 🤞🏼🍀
You can still upvote via this link ↓
Bento Fam 😍👋 Thanks for all your lovely feedback on our latest mobile update!
Reading all your feedback & ideas leaves us grateful to be working alongside this amazing community & to develop our product together.
Big things coming next week 👀👀
Until then, happy weekend 💜
We've made a personal collection of the 10 most inspiring bentos we've seen so far 💫
We've been truly amazed by all the creativity of our community & can't wait to show how these early users made Bento their own.
Check them out below 👇🏼