Hey guys, I'm Preston.👋
Worklink is a marketplace and social platform for corporate employees looking to capture, share, and monetize the things they create at work.
🛑 The problem
The playbook for career advancement is outdated and ineffective. Updating your resume, networking with people you dont know, waiting for your annual promotion cycle. If you're relying on these methods for making an impact in the corporate world, it's gonna take a while.
⚡️ The solution
Worklink provides a better way:
1. Build a work portfolio by capturing your expertise in posts, projects, or products. Simply share the actual work you're doing.
2. Find other users who love the things you're working on without ever leaving the platform.
3. Scale your earnings and impact by offering digital products, courses, or consulting services to other brands or corporate employees looking to build things like you've built.
🧠 Our Philosophy
Historically, corporate work happens in silos and behind closed doors. We're looking to change that.
We believe the future of work is decentralized and open-source. Where ownership of an asset is shared only by the creators and has utility across companies and even industries.
We see collaboration as key to providing the best solutions to the market. If someone has built a great solution, someone else can remix it and make it even better.
We believe corporate creators should be compensated proportionate to their impact. If you're the best in the world at your area of expertise, you should be compensated accordingly.
🤝 The Ask
This is my first Product Hunt launch so I'm eager for feedback.
Hope you enjoy Worklink and please let me know how we can improve!
Preston
Cool product! I wonder why you are still not in the Featured? I don't know how things work here, but I sure am interested in the future of this product :)
wow look at this brand design & illustrations, insane work! I couldn't look into the product well because I couldn't take my eyes off the hero illustration! :)
props to all the talented developers programmers and engineers Ive worked with over the years who had side hustles that never got released to the public, using something like this helps these code wizards get their share. Love it thanks Preston.
Hey, @preston_newsome1 great product! I love the concept of building a portfolio and connecting with like-minded professionals!
Curious, though—are any upcoming features to enhance the visibility of users' work within the platform?
@prakhar_tandon_1 Thanks Prakhar! Really appreciate the support. Yes, a few ways we plan to do this: (1) bring supply on to the platform by allowing employers to hire consultants.(2) We plan to build a more algorithmic home feed for matching products/projects with interest and area of expertise.
I'd be interested to hear if you have any ideas. As a user, what solutions would you like to see to enhance visibility?
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It's interesting to see a platform that encourages sharing and remixing solutions across companies. How do you manage intellectual property rights in such an open environment?
@nickman Hey Nick! Appreciate the question. Users are able to control visibility of every asset, allowing them to only show assets within their team or hide them from everyone. But long story short, the burden will fall on the user to extract proprietary data if/when necessary. We're looking into features to make this easier (i.e. using AI to flag proprietary data before a user publishes a product, etc.) Any other ideas on how we can do this?
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This seems like a fresh take on professional networking and career advancement. I'm curious, how does the platform ensure the quality and relevance of shared content?
@andrew_kee I made an intentional decision to allow the market to reward good, relevant work rather than curating or filtering it myself. In other words, good work will get rewarded with clicks, engagement and purchasing, decentivizing users from creating any work that isnt relevant to the market. What are your thoughts on this? Do you think that is leaving too much discretion to the user?
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Congrats @preston_newsome1! This is great. I've gone down the productized services route and this seems like an excellent way to ease the transition from centralized W2 to decentralized 1099. Slightly higher risk, but you right-size the correlation between effort and reward. I'm all for it.
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