Tap Bio is closing. You can't take your page with you.

Tap Bio is shutting down on October 31. If you have a page there, your page is being deleted on October 31. There is no export tool — the company says they are "working on" letting users save their content as a single file, but five months out, no such tool exists. You will lose what you built.

This is the part of the SaaS contract that doesn't show up in the marketing. You can pay for years, put your work in someone else's house, and one day the house gets sold, sunset, or shuttered, and the things you put in the house are not yours to retrieve. Tap Bio doesn't deserve special blame here. It's a company that ran out of runway, and the polite thing was to give five months' notice. The catch is that there's no version of "polite five months' notice" that gives you back the years you spent on the platform if the platform doesn't let you take your data with you.

I wrote about this last week: the structural reason platforms drift toward extraction, and why "I built it on their site" turns into "I rent it from their site" turns into "they have it and I don't." Tap Bio is just the version that arrives in the news. There are dozens of others one funding round away from the same headline. Beehiiv's CEO has been pretty open lately about why publishers should own their audience instead of renting it from a platform. He's right.

Beacon, which I'm building, is a self-hosted link-in-bio you actually own — a file on your computer you upload to your hosting, with no one else holding the lease. If Tap Bio's October 31 is your problem, the demo is here. If it isn't your problem, save the link. Eventually it will be.