Meet Explore — A New Way to Discover Selfbase Pages

For most of Selfbase's life, every page has been its own little island.

You build yours. Someone else builds theirs. You both share the link with the people who already know to look for it. Everything works, but the pages never really meet.

That always felt like a missed opportunity, so we shipped a small fix: Explore.

What Explore actually is

Explore is a new view that lets you discover other Selfbase pages.

You open it, you see a list of recent pages — avatar, title, slug, a short description — and you tap any of them to open the page itself. If you are looking for someone specific, there is a search box at the top that filters the list as you type.

That is the whole feature. Nothing flashy. Just a window into what else is being built on Selfbase right now.

Where to find it

We did not bury this one in a settings menu.

There is now a small Explore link at the bottom of every Selfbase page — including yours. Tap it, and the Explore modal opens right there on top of whatever page you were viewing. Close it, and you are back where you started.

That means anyone who lands on a Selfbase page — your followers, a friend of a friend, someone who clicked a link from a podcast description — is one tap away from discovering more pages. Yours is one of them.

Why we built it

A few reasons, in roughly the order they convinced us.

Inspiration is contagious. When we look at what people are actually doing with their pages, we get genuinely useful ideas — about layout, about copy, about which blocks to combine. We figured if it was useful for us, it would be useful for everyone else too.

Discovery is missing from the bio-link world. Every other corner of the internet has some way to bump into new people — feeds, timelines, recommendation rails, "you might also like." Bio pages, oddly, do not. Your link gets shared in a profile somewhere, and that is the end of the discovery story. Explore is a first step toward changing that.

New creators deserve a shot. If you just signed up and built your page yesterday, nobody knows about you yet. Explore currently surfaces the latest pages, which means a brand-new Selfbase user gets a moment of visibility just for showing up. That feels right.

How it works right now

The first version is deliberately simple.

The default view is latest pages first — so as new people join Selfbase and publish a page, they appear at the top. Refresh the modal a few hours apart and the list will look different.

The search finds pages by name and slug. Type "alex" and you see every page whose title or URL contains "alex". Useful if you heard about someone's page in passing and want to find it again without remembering the exact URL.

Tap any result, and the page opens in a new tab. Close the modal, your own page is still right there.

That is it. No follows, no likes, no algorithm. Just a list and a search box.

What is coming next

Explore is the kind of feature that gets more interesting the more we add to it. Some directions we are looking at:

• Categories or tags so you can browse by what a page is for — creators, makers, freelancers, small shops, side projects.
• Trending or featured pages so the genuinely interesting ones surface even when they were not published in the last hour.
• A public Explore page at a real URL, so this stops being modal-only and becomes a place you can link to.
• Opt-out controls if you would rather your page not appear in Explore at all — sometimes a bio page is for one specific audience and that is fine.

We will ship those as we get a feel for how people actually use the current version. If you have a strong opinion about any of them, tell us.

A small note about being seen

If you have a Selfbase page, it now lives in a slightly more public neighborhood than it did yesterday.

For most people this is a good thing — more eyeballs, more chances of being discovered, more reason to keep your page polished. For some people it might feel different, and that is fair. We will add a way to opt out of appearing in Explore soon.

In the meantime, this is a nice excuse to give your page a once-over. Title sharp? Description doing real work? Avatar not pixelated? Good. You are ready for company.

Try it now

Open any Selfbase page — yours, ours, anyone's — and look at the bottom. There is a small Explore link. Tap it.

You will see who else has been building lately, and maybe pick up an idea or two for your own page along the way.

If you spot something especially good in there, send it our way. We love seeing what people make.

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