Polywork

Build your personal brand & make side income

4.4•21 reviews•

4.2K followers

Build your personal brand & make side income

4.4•21 reviews•

4.2K followers

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Polywork Reviews

The community submitted 21 reviews to tell us what they like about Polywork, what Polywork can do better, and more.

4.4

Based on 21 reviews

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Reviewers see Polywork as useful when it helps people present multi-part careers, meet collaborators, find freelance or beta-testing opportunities, and build a personal site without starting from scratch. Several like the profile and feed format because it shows ongoing work more naturally than a résumé. But criticism is consistent: some feel the product drifted from its original community-and-project focus toward a generic portfolio or AI site-builder, while search, filtering, bookmarking, bugs, and uneven member activity can make discovery and outreach frustrating.

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Pros

beta testing recruitment (3)

personal branding (3)

professional social network (3)

community building (2)

inclusive platform (2)

networking opportunities (2)

opportunity discovery (2)

user-centric design (2)

Cons

AI site builder (2)

inactive users (2)

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•6 reviews

Have been using Polywork the past month to seek beta testers for my new launched product and it has been extremely easy and helpful! Folks from all walks of life on Polywork are willing to chime in and are responsive. Definitely a better platform than if you were to message people out of whim on Linkedin/Slack etc. One thing to be cautious is even though there are many well-know individuals created their profile on Polywork, they tend to be inactive and unreachable, hence it might lose appeal to users at some point. There are some functionalities that needed to be improved upon though. When I searched for example investors who would like to beta test new product, there are 4000 results popped up with no advanced filter and no bookmark, hence it was very difficult for one to filter and keep track of their messaged individuals as the list is curated quite randomly instead of alphabetically or in other logical order. In addition, there were multiple bugs on the page e.g: the same profile would show up twice side by side, appearing on the same page. It's a good experience so far, needs work on UX and functionality improvement as well as more participants on the platform clearly, otherwise it would be the same group of loyal users who stay active.

What's great

beta testing recruitment (3)

What needs improvement

inactive users (2)limited advanced search (1)UX issues (1)functionality bugs (1)

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•1 review

I started using Polywork recently and was pleasantly surprised by the deep well of opportunities listed here. It was nice to see a site for someone like me -- I dont just have a job, i'm also on boards, i'm an investor, I want to participate in community projects. Polywork was great at helping surface interesting opportunities for active people looking to get involved and grow themselves across many dimensions.

What's great

community building (2)opportunity discovery (2)

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•5 reviews

Polywork is wonderful as a place to showcase your _work_, not just your work, through an inclusive, varied set of update posts to your wall making it your story instead of just another online resumé.

What's great

personal branding (3)inclusive platform (2)

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1 view3yr ago

•2 reviews

Been using Polywork for over a year now. Met some really interesting people on it to get involved with Projects.

What's great

networking opportunities (2)opportunity discovery (2)

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3yr ago

•5 reviews

I liked the feed feature; I understand it wasn't used a ton, but I did enjoy looking around and seeing what people were making. It's now just another portfolio site in the vein of caard. I already have a personal site, so there's not much need for me to visit since I can't really find anyone else.

What's great

feed feature (1)

What needs improvement

inactive users (2)

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1 view2yr ago

•2 reviews

Poliwork had an original idea of creating a marketplace to connect people on their personal projects outside of the famous 9-5 jobs, but now they are just one of the thousands of generic 'AI site builders' that are abundant on the web, dont recommend.

What needs improvement

AI site builder (2)

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•1 review

Polywork is pretty great at 80% of the work creating a personal web site. It still requires some time investment to get the web site to where I would want it to be prior to publishing it.