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

Professional networking platforms

Polywork empowers the next generation of professionals to build their personal brand & make side income. Join us and create your free site today.

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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Cons

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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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37 views4yr ago

Perspective

•6 reviews

Everything that's wrong with LinkedIn, is done right on Polywork. I have a huge following on LinkedIn but I can NOT wait until we all move over. The network is welcoming, the features match people's professional lives much better, and it simply is an all-round improvement from design to functionality.

What's great

user-centric design (2)professional social network (3)inclusive platform (2)

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26 views4yr ago

•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

•8 reviews

It is a great application, I love how you can connect custom domains too, would have loved if they had two syncs from other social media apps like linkedin and twitter

What's great

custom domains (1)

What needs improvement

professional social network (1)

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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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4yr ago

Appwrite

•1 review

If Polywork had an API to upload activities it would be perfect! I love everything else about the platform.

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2 views4yr ago

MeetFox

•1 review

Polywork is a clear winner in the area of community building. It's like a cross between LinkedIn and Facebook but with a much smart design, and a user-centric development approach.