found.as

found.as is a free digital business card that gives you one page for every way people can reach you. You claim a username, add your phone, email, messaging apps, and social links, and share a single found.as address that gathers all of it in one place. It sits in the same lane as a link-in-bio page, but the emphasis is squarely on contact and identity rather than on funneling clicks toward a sale, which gives it a quieter, more personal feel than most tools of the type.

The problem it addresses is that your contact details are scattered and awkward to hand off. Rattling off a phone number, spelling out an email, and then listing which apps you actually check is clumsy in person and worse in a social bio that has room for exactly one link. found.as collapses all of that into a single URL and a QR code, so sharing how to reach you becomes one tap or one scan instead of a small negotiation every time you meet someone. The friction of the handoff, which is where a lot of would-be connections quietly die, more or less disappears.

Setup is intentionally low-friction. You create an account with just a username and a password, with no email address required, then add your contact methods and links and arrange them however you like. From there the page is ready to share, and the whole thing is clearly designed so a non-technical person can stand up a clean, presentable contact page in a few minutes without ever touching anything that looks like configuration. Nothing about it assumes you know or care how a website is actually built underneath.

For a free tool the feature set is surprisingly complete. You can customize the look with themes, accent colors, a photo, and per-button icons, generate a QR code that works both for online sharing and for saving your details straight into someone's phone contacts offline, and even connect a custom domain so the page lives on an address you actually own. There are printable business cards and email-signature integration on top of that, which extend the same page out into the physical world and the everyday email that is still where most people trade contact details.

It goes a step beyond a pure contact card by hosting a little content too. The page can act as a redirect, hold a short write-up, or distribute a file, so the same link can double as a tiny personal site on the occasions you need one. That keeps it useful well past the introduction itself, without ever pulling it toward the sprawl and upkeep of a full website builder. The line it draws is deliberate, enough flexibility to be genuinely handy, not so much that it becomes another thing you have to maintain over time.

Where it stakes out its own ground is privacy. The page is described as plain with zero scripts, and the service runs with no tracking, no analytics, no cookies, and no ads, hosted in the EU on renewable energy. It also supports verifiable links, including Mastodon verification, so the identities you point people toward can actually be confirmed rather than just claimed. For anyone who bristles at handing a typical link-in-bio company an analytics trail on every single person who taps their profile, that posture is not a footnote, it is the whole reason to choose this over the popular alternatives.

The offline side is easy to underrate. A QR code that drops your details straight into someone's phone contacts turns a conference hallway or a market stall into a clean exchange, with no typos, no lost napkins, and no app to install on either end. The same page can live on a printed card, sit in your email signature, and hang off a custom domain all at once, which means one source of truth for your contact details instead of five copies that slowly drift apart as you change a number or drop a platform. Update the page once and every one of those surfaces reflects it, since they all point back to the same found.as address. For a freelancer or a small operator whose contact details are effectively their storefront, that single-source simplicity is the quiet payoff.

Access is genuinely free with no paid tier, and the site is explicit that every feature is included rather than dangled behind an upgrade. That makes it a natural fit for individuals, freelancers, and small business owners who want a tidy, shareable contact page without a subscription or a data-harvesting business model quietly running underneath it. The trade is that it is lean by design, so anyone hunting for deep marketing analytics or elaborate landing-page tooling will find it minimal, which is precisely the point. It's a clean front door for your contact details, provided by the team behind the xmit hosting service.