Peter Johnston

Polywork - Discover opportunities to collaborate

Polywork is the first collaboration network. Discover opportunities to collaborate with other professionals - from speaking on podcasts, to beta-testing new apps, partnering on side projects, and more. You’ll never be bored again.

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Peter Johnston
Hey Product Hunt 👋 Polywork Founder here! Just over a year ago, we launched Polywork in invite-only beta and the reaction was more than we could have ever expected. We even ended up with the word ‘polywork’ in the dictionary last Christmas!🎅 One year later, we’re launching Polywork publicly for everyone. We started Polywork because we were frustrated by the limited ways existing professional networks allow us to express ourselves i.e. they focus on job titles and schools attended. Furthermore, they focus their platforms on connecting people to full time opportunities only. This has made it really hard to express ourselves online today as professionals and connect and collaborate with others professionals.For example, what if you want to find product designers open to partnering on side projects? Or find founders open to speaking on your podcast? Where do you go? In order to solve this, the first phase in our journey last year was launching our single player product called Polywork Pages: a place to express all the things you do, (see my poly.me/peter page here). We have 100s of thousands of amazing professionals from Figma, Airbnb, Snapchat, Github and more using Polywork to showcase what they do. 🚀 Today, we’re introducing our multiplayer product - a place to discover opportunities to collaborate. Want to partner on a side project? Speak on a podcast? Maybe join a cycling group with other product designers? Or check out which professionals at Airbnb or Google are open to angel investing? We’ve been hard at work building an experience that helps professionals connect and collaborate with anyone, on anything. We’re excited for The Product Hunt Community to check it out and would love any feedback you can give on how we can improve Polywork! P.S. Coming up next: ✨ - Better personalization of opportunities - Improved Messenger UX - Clubs: private spaces for like-minded professionals to connect and exchange ideas. Beta is live! - iOS app: coming soon - What do you think we should build next? A lot of our favorite things about Polywork came from our community. Would love to keep that going - drop us your ideas.
Saswat.lens
Congratulations 🎉 Have been a beta user - https://polywork.com/saas and love the product.
Bailey Luu
@multiplay3r Huge congratulations to Polywork team 🎉! I was introduced by my friend last year, about Polywork. I was amazed by Polywork’s slogan, the design, and the accessibility. The platform gives a welcoming/warming/friendly vibe whenever I visit the site. I’m able to connect with other who share the same interests. I do share my Polywork profile as my portfolio :)). Polywork has a function which allows user to organize posts in specific category, which I found super helpful. I also love the badges because instead of a long description about myself, the badges tell everything. There are more Polywork functions which I love, but I highly recommend y’all to check out :) give it a try I’m looking forward to Polywork’s new features in the future! ❤️
Hannah Copeland
@baileybtl 💜 🎉 Love that you've been a part of the community since the beginning - your feedback has seriously been invaluable along the way!
Meg Mahoney
@multiplay3r Love this! So excited to see the amazing community driven-ideas here! 👀🥳
Edoardo Ceccarelli
@multiplay3r finally! a fresh job networking tool, keep up the good work! As for what feature you should build, I just noticed it does not have a dark mode (or at least it doesnt work on Linux), please consider this as I expect everyone will want to spend some night time on polywork :)
Andrea Todorova
OK, this is my fave product so far. Awesome idea, I can really see the potential! 👏
Hannah Copeland
@andrea_todorova1 👯‍♀️ love to hear it! See you on Polywork✌️
Peter Johnston
@andrea_todorova1 really appreciate it Andrea!
Sean Bugler
I’ve been using Polywork for over a year now (poly.me/sean), and I love the clarity of vision and focus on fostering community. Polywork helped me embrace that my career wasn’t as linear or focused as some perfectly manicured LinkedIn MBAs (you know, the ones). I love how ✨ everywhere✨my work is, and it’s nice to have a place to show that off finally. Looking forward to seeing the platform continue to evolve!
Hannah Copeland
@sean_bugler 👏 here for all the non-traditional work paths! Excited to keep getting your feedback as we evolve Polywork✨
Peter Johnston
@sean_bugler Thank you so much for the support Sean!
Simon Ugorji
I've been using polywork for a year now and I love it! I use it mostly to document most of my activities as a developer and I love how organized it is. From the highlights section, to share opportunities, I love it! Cheers to the team behind this wonderful product. You have my support 🤩🤩🤩
Hannah Copeland
@octagon Simon! Love how you've built our your Polywork page + great to hear you're already loving the opportunity discovery - definitely want to keep getting your feedback as we keep evolving things 🙌
Sandy Edwards
@octagon Definitely agree that Polywork is a great tool for documenting what you’re up to as a developer. Thanks so much for the support and let us know if you have any ideas for how we can improve your experience!
Peter Johnston
@octagon Love to see it Simon, thank you for the support!
João Salgueiro
Congrats 🎉!! I’ve been beta testing since the start of last year and still can’t believe what Polywork has become. I got to test new exciting apps and meet amazing people who gave me a hand when I so needed. And all this without ever feeling less cool or popular than anyone - the lack of pressure from likes/public followers is seriously one of Polywork’s best features. Can’t wait to see what the future brings!
Hannah Copeland
@joaodotcodes ✚ ✚ ✚ this is it! Accessing cool opportunities and connecting with people - not having to navigate navigate network algorithms and stress-inducing "popularity" signals.
Peter Johnston
@joaodotcodes João, i dont know what to say, i think you were like one of our first 100 users and were so helpful with your feedback, reporting bugs and more, cant thank you enough for being a part of this with us! 🙏
João Salgueiro
@multiplay3r Don't make me cry, Peter! 🤣 It was truly a pleasure though, seriously. I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat! The whole team (you included heh) was phenomenal! Also, special thanks to @cassidoo ! Can't forget to thank the person who gave me the chance to participate in all this 😃 Think it all started with an email from Scrimba...?
Amanda Stewart
@multiplay3r @cassidoo @joaodotcodes now I'M going to get emotional too. y'all!
Lawson Kuehnert
I'm a startup founder based in NYC and I've been using Polywork for over a year. Love the design interface and growing community. Collaboration is a cool new way to find opportunities and I'm excited to see how the product continues to improve! Love it!
Hannah Copeland
@lawson_kuehnert1 So great to hear you're finding ways to collaborate / connect with people already. Also s/o to you + all our other NYC Polyworkers! 🏙
Peter Johnston
@lawson_kuehnert1 Thanks so much for the early support Lawson, still have that story that you collaborated with the founder of VSCO through Polywork, one of our first success stories! 🚀
Cassidy Williams
I've been using Polywork for what seems like forever now, and it's an awesome way to showcase and organize the work you do that would be too verbose for a LinkedIn description. I'm super looking forward to an API, import/export of data, and backdating current ongoing projects!
Peter Johnston
@cassidoo Cassidy, I wont do this thank you message justice, but THANK YOU for everything, between interrupting your Philadelphia cheese steak trip to get you onto Good Morning America 😅🧀 to being a constant partner to me and the team helping craft Polywork over the last year, we owe you a debt! 🙏❤️
Amanda Stewart
@cassidoo thank you isn't enough, but it's all I've got... that and some emoji love: 🐐🏆🥇💯💜🥐 (<- nothing says we appreciate you like a solid carb?)
Candost Dagdeviren
I have been using Polywork for more than a year now. It's the only platform I can represent myself fully. All other platforms forced me to create a specific persona while leaving out some aspects of my life and what I like. On Polywork, I don't need to niche down in any topic. The only niche is me! And I frickin' love it! I love how it helped me to showcase what I do without any self-judgment. Additionally, it helped me connect to fantastic folks that I didn't know before. I invited these people to my podcast as well. I loved it so much that I joined the Polywork community and became a Polynaut advisor. Rock on, Polywork! Keep evolving as you do every day!
Hannah Copeland
@candosten you have been CLUTCH with feedback and support as we've grown. Thank you, thank you! Excited to keep building Polywork with you + this awesome community 🙌
Amanda Stewart
@candosten 💫💫 "It's the only platform I can represent myself fully" 💫💫 absolutely YES to representing your FULL self on Polywork 🙌🏻 Everyone is more than their job title. Thank you for being an early community member and an influential part of our success in the last year. Couldn't have done it without you! 🥰
Peter Johnston
@candosten not sure what to say Candost, you have been an incredible community member from day one for us, thank you for helping us shape the product! Your timeline is pretty insane!
Kirill Malev
Polywork is an eye-candy in terms of UX. Wishing all the best to the team, would be happy to connect with anyone who worked on such a marvellous product!
Hannah Copeland
@kirill_malev oh hellooo 👋 - we should connect on Polywork! https://poly.me/hannahcopeland
Peter Johnston
@kirill_malev Appreciate that comment about the UX alot, we have a long way to go but the team is the best ive worked with!
Sveta Bay
Congratulations on the launch ❤️ Polywork is an amazing platform for founders and makers, highly recommend it to everyone!
Hannah Copeland
@basv Thank you! We've loved following what you're building too + how you're finding people to collaborate with along the way 🙏
Peter Johnston
@basv Thank you so much for all your support Sveta! was so stoked to see how much value you and your team got from Polywork in finding beta testers!
Sveta Bay
@multiplay3r it all started with Polywork! One of the beta-testers purchased our product and this was the best inspiration to go on! Since then, we tried many platforms to get feedback on landing pages or to get beta-testers. Polywork stands out!
Amanda Stewart
@multiplay3r @basv 😳 Sveta! THIS IS PHENOMENAL. I am so so happy to hear that we could help facilitate your success. To the moon with you too! 🚀
Derrick Tsorme
Congratulations!! Been using it for a while (https://www.polywork.com/uxderrick) and I love the product! I can't wait to see how huge we become!
Matt Breuer
@uxderrick love your page, Derrick! Thanks for being on this journey with us This is a great highlight: https://poly.work/uxderrick/high...
Hannah Copeland
@uxderrick @mebreuer 🙌 your feedback has been super helpful! look forward to hearing from you more as we keep refining the product!
Peter Johnston
@uxderrick Polywork founder here, thank you for all your help Derrick! btw did you know we got a new cute short url, so you can share poly.me/uxderrick as your link in bio too versus the longer URL! 🔥
Gaurav Goyal
Very interesting. I would love to try this. Congratulations @multiplay3r
Hannah Copeland
@multiplay3r @gauravgoyal_gg would love to see you on Polywork! poly.me/hannahcopeland ✌️
Peter Johnston
@gauravgoyal_gg Come on over! would love your feedback! check out my page here poly.me/peter
Tamás Deme
I am super excited - I've been probably in the first 50 users of the platform and it's been so exciting to see it grow over time https://www.polywork.com/tomzorz 🔥🔥
Amanda Stewart
@tomzorz_ As OG as it gets. 🏆 Thank you for helping us build this rocketship as we fly!
Hannah Copeland
@tomzorz_ a true OG! Has been so fun getting to know you through the Polywork community. Let's keep it up! 🚀
Peter Johnston
@tomzorz_ Tamás, what can I say? You, Cassidy and the group were instrumental in helping us get here today. You're in a select group of people who is seemingly online 24/7 😅 was rad to grab coffee too in NYC and meet in person, one of my Twitter > IRL friends! 🙏 thank you dude!
Gabe Moronta
Congrats @multiplay3r & team, been using Polywork since May of 2021, and absolutely love it! Grat work!
Sandy Edwards
@multiplay3r @gabe_moronta Thanks for the support! Feel free to reach out if you have any ideas about how we can make the product even better for you
Peter Johnston
@gabe_moronta Gabe, Polywork founder here, cant thank you enough for being an early adopter and spreading the word so frequently about us on Twitter! 🙏
Jesper Dramsch
I was lucky enough to join Polywork in 2020. What a game changer! I love the way I can post about different things I do (without worrying about likes) and present them to the world. I have ADHD, I do a lot of things and other pages force me to "niche down" to "grow" 🫠 You can easily see at https://poly.me/jesper You may be wondering why I keep another social media around and I wondered the same. But it's the same reason I keep a website. It's a space where I can be the whole me, and I am a lot. So far I've been loving every update even. Which isn't a given these days. In fact I even had chats about the multiplayer experience with Peter and Amanda separately, despite me just being a rando on the internet! And then there's the multiplayer experience slowly growing. Candost reached out to me for a podcast episode over the Polywork collaborate feature and I had a few others who wanted to talk about machine learning. All really lovely connections I truly appreciate. Been a really nice experience so far and I look forward where this grows. Congrats to the big launch! 🎉🎉🎉
Peter Johnston
@jesperdramsch Thank you so SO much for being such an amazing community member from the very beginning, your meetings with the team and I were so valuable helping shape the future of Polywork, excited to see where go next! 🙏☺️
Amanda Stewart
@jesperdramsch the ICP of a community member. Thank you for giving never hesitating to tell us like it is. We wouldn't be here without your feedback and support, Jesper. 💜💜💜
Hannah Copeland
@jesperdramsch seriously retweet to @multiplay3r and @amandastewart - your consistent involvement, honest feedback, and championing of Polywork have truly made it a better place for the whole community. Look forward to having you help us continue to evolve! 🚀
Jesper Dramsch
@multiplay3r @amandastewart @hannah_copeland Aw. Thanks folks, that's so kind! I also look forward to where this all goes.
Really helpful product! Congratulations!
Sabrina Kieffer
@ninaaaa0913 Thank you for being part of our community!
Utkarsh
Joined polywork @ the very early stages of the product. Loveed the journey till now. The use case of polywork is very vast but it makes collaboration easier than ever. I just add all my work - everything I do professionally on my polywork timeline. Kudos to the team and advisors! 💜
Amanda Stewart
@utkarshxy Zeus! You've been such an influential member of our community, and we are incredibly grateful for you! Thank you!
Peter Johnston
@utkarshxy Zeus, Peter (Polywork founder) here, how are you? Thank you so much for your early support and help shaping Polywork, you were so kind with your time and showed us alot of love on social media. Hope you are enjoying that @ Zeus handle I hooked you up with :)... P.s. we launched our super slick short URLs last week, so now you have this neat little link in bio poly.me/zeus 🔥🔥🔥
Utkarsh
@multiplay3r Hey peter! The initial days were crazy! Thanks for hooking me up @Zeus as well! Rooting for the Polywork team! 💜 Can see the massive adoption booming. Onwards and upwards 🚀
Wesley Faulkner
I've been lucky enough to be an early user of Polywork, and it's a great platform. I'm also a club founder, and it has the great potential to reimagine how communities form and find each other. I'm super excited that it's now available to everyone.
Matt Breuer
@wesley83 We're excited too! Thank you for being such an incredible member of the community 💫
Hannah Copeland
@wesley83 yesss love the shoutout to Clubs beta! Thanks for all the feedback as we're building that 🙏
Amanda Stewart
@wesley83 not you being early to everything 😂😎 THANK YOU for always supporting us & keeping it real. we appreciate you!!
Aaron H
I was a relatively early-adopter of it and I admit I was skeptical at first. I really like the platform now. I'm definitely not leveraging all of the features, but I really love having a single profile where I can showcase my diverse interests, creations, and collaborative works. Looking forward to exploring more about the possibilities for collaboration in the future! The team is led by some smart people who really want this product to be the best it can be, and I am excited to see where it goes.
Peter Johnston
@aaron_h1 Aaron, thanks so much for the early support, I think alot of folks are always skeptical of a 'new LinkedIn' 😅 but I think we've really carved out a niche for ourselves, you should check out polywork.com/collaborate - its where all the action takes place!
Hannah Copeland
@aaron_h1 hello friend! thanks for seriously so much thoughtful feedback along the way. thankful to have people like you push us to make Polywork better! 🙏
Paul Rusyn
Wow! Cool product. Congrats on the launch 🚀
Amanda Stewart
@pavell2l thank you!! 🚀🚀
Peter Johnston
@pavell2l 🔥🚀