# GLINR Studios

> GLINR Studios is an independent studio building, shipping, and operating a portfolio of small software products. Each one solves a problem we had ourselves.

**Founded:** 2016
**Based in:** 
**Website:** https://glinr.com
**Founder:** GDSKS (https://thegdsks.com)
**Contact:** hello@glinr.com
**Press:** press@glinr.com

- https://github.com/glincker
- https://twitter.com/glincker
- https://linkedin.com/company/glincker

## About

GLINR Studios is an independent studio building, shipping, and operating a portfolio of small software products. We pick problems with clear edges and build the tools that solve them.

### ORIGIN

Every product shipped is still running. No acquisitions, no sunsetting, no rug-pulls. Each product is built to last and built to be simple.

### What we build, what we don't.

**We build**
- Products we'd use ourselves.
- Small, focused tools.
- Software with one clear point of view.
- Things we can own end-to-end.

**We don't**
- Dark patterns.
- Feature bloat.
- AI gimmicks.
- Chasing trends.

## Manifesto

### 01. Build for the long road, not the launch week.

Every product we ship is one we intend to run for the next decade. That commitment changes every decision. We do not build for acquisition valuations or for the press cycle around a launch. We build things we would want to maintain in year seven, which means simpler architectures, smaller scopes, and a strong bias toward boring technology that has already proven itself.

### 02. Small tools beat big platforms.

Platforms accumulate surface area. They grow enterprise tiers, acquire adjacent tools, and slowly stop being good at the one thing they started with. We build small tools with clear edges. A thing that does one job well and gets out of the way is more valuable than a platform that does eight jobs adequately. We would rather ship something sharp than something comprehensive.

### 03. Operate every product we ship.

We do not hand off to a publisher. We do not white-label to a reseller. We run support, write the changelog, ship the fixes, and answer the emails ourselves. That proximity to users is how we know what matters. A studio that does not operate its own products is a studio that is slowly losing the argument about what to build next.

### 04. Pricing you can explain in a sentence.

We want the relationship between price and value simple enough to explain in one sentence. No dark patterns, no surprise overages, no fine print you have to negotiate out of. If a product cannot justify its price honestly, it should not exist.

### 05. Write down what we learn.

Decisions that are not documented are decisions that get repeated. When something breaks, when a bet pays off, when we change our minds, we write it down. Not for content marketing and not for SEO. For the next time we face the same situation and need to remember what we concluded the last time we were standing here.

### 06. Independence over scale.

We have been independent since 2016. We do not have investors telling us to move upstream or to broaden our target market. We get to say no to feature requests that would compromise the product. We get to keep things small. That independence is not a consolation prize for not raising money. It is the product. We protect it like one.

## Products

### Quarter

**Tagline:** Freelancer money OS. Taxes, banking, runway.
**Launched:** 2024
**Platform:** web
**Detail page:** https://glinr.com/products/quarter
**Product site:** /quarter

Quarter is a money OS for US freelancers. Connect a bank account, see your safe-to-spend after tax + runway in seconds, and skip the spreadsheet. Flat-priced, no per-seat fees, ever.

### Glink

**Tagline:** Short links that stay short and tell you what happens after the click.
**Launched:** 2026
**Platform:** web
**Detail page:** https://glinr.com/products/glink
**Product site:** /products/glink

Glink turns any long URL into a clean short link with a custom slug, tracks every click with basic analytics, and lets you set expiry dates so stale links stop working on their own.

### Label

**Tagline:** QR codes that look like your brand, not a noisy black-and-white grid.
**Launched:** 2026
**Platform:** web
**Detail page:** https://glinr.com/products/label
**Product site:** /products/label

Label turns any URL into a styled QR code with your brand colors, logo center, and custom corner shapes. Export as SVG or PDF, save templates, and track scan counts after distribution.