I was attracted to Polywork for a few reasons:
- I subscribe to the idea we all do many things outside our primary income stream and have stories to share. We each are multifaceted humans that seek similar and different view spaces to participate in and watch... to belong, to learn, to share.
- Exploring what others are up to without the focus on "likes"
- I struggle with finding folks that just want to chat about the public sector tech space or Girl Scouts or the saga of motherhood; I love meeting new people on zoom and see this as a path to connect
- I was a big LiveJournal and AIM user in the early 2000s and the badges and activities give me tags and "User Info" page and LJ communities potential and "currently listening to" vibes, which is great. A larger part of modern social construction and a dash of historical social goodness.
- I had been talking with a16z around a need for authentic voice platforms centered in contributions to society and making the world a better place, and I see Polywork fitting that - and with the Series A news, really great stuff there.
- I enjoy giving product feedback on early journeys of how online communities springboard forward
Wishlist
- Custom themes. GeoCities and Myspace were places where girls in particular could learn HTML and CSS to style their own corner of the interwebs. I know because I learned HTML at 14 years old on GeoCities - the first time code actually ran and did something, I was hooked. One could argue bring the early 2000s internet back is bad form and would literally be ugly, but I say consider it an opportunity to create a creative space where those learning tech skills can not only post about their learnings but also showcase them in the same portal with customers, friends, and mentors. Not saying we need the marquee tag back or the under construction gifs either. :)
- Bigger editing/authoring text area
- I need an easier way to send feedback as I have found a few bugs and usability issues. Help me help others. Not a Google Form fan and I did not sign up on this site with a Google account. I would expect every early adopter to share experience and ideas so you can get different views and spark more innovation.
- Refine the getting started experience for folks: easy to add badges, activities are still buggy and harder to find/search, how to encourage more posts and community etc
To show my age, I was an early adopter of LJ (during invite code era, Amanda hooked me up), thefacebook[dot]com (back in the day it was actually called this), and also digg (v1 and 2.0 I was one of the most active users, well before v4 and it was sold into whatever it considers itself to be now). I was ranked first in Atlanta on Urbanspoon for number of reviews. Fun fact- I created the Playing Game away message for AIM when I was 18. You are very welcome Gen Xers.
Excited to see where Polywork takes me and itself.
(Edited post so it would not autoinclude a link to FB as I don't support that platform and don't encourage folks using it in general)
- I subscribe to the idea we all do many things outside our primary income stream and have stories to share. We each are multifaceted humans that seek similar and different view spaces to participate in and watch... to belong, to learn, to share.
- Exploring what others are up to without the focus on "likes"
- I struggle with finding folks that just want to chat about the public sector tech space or Girl Scouts or the saga of motherhood; I love meeting new people on zoom and see this as a path to connect
- I was a big LiveJournal and AIM user in the early 2000s and the badges and activities give me tags and "User Info" page and LJ communities potential and "currently listening to" vibes, which is great. A larger part of modern social construction and a dash of historical social goodness.
- I had been talking with a16z around a need for authentic voice platforms centered in contributions to society and making the world a better place, and I see Polywork fitting that - and with the Series A news, really great stuff there.
- I enjoy giving product feedback on early journeys of how online communities springboard forward
Wishlist
- Custom themes. GeoCities and Myspace were places where girls in particular could learn HTML and CSS to style their own corner of the interwebs. I know because I learned HTML at 14 years old on GeoCities - the first time code actually ran and did something, I was hooked. One could argue bring the early 2000s internet back is bad form and would literally be ugly, but I say consider it an opportunity to create a creative space where those learning tech skills can not only post about their learnings but also showcase them in the same portal with customers, friends, and mentors. Not saying we need the marquee tag back or the under construction gifs either. :)
- Bigger editing/authoring text area
- I need an easier way to send feedback as I have found a few bugs and usability issues. Help me help others. Not a Google Form fan and I did not sign up on this site with a Google account. I would expect every early adopter to share experience and ideas so you can get different views and spark more innovation.
- Refine the getting started experience for folks: easy to add badges, activities are still buggy and harder to find/search, how to encourage more posts and community etc
To show my age, I was an early adopter of LJ (during invite code era, Amanda hooked me up), thefacebook[dot]com (back in the day it was actually called this), and also digg (v1 and 2.0 I was one of the most active users, well before v4 and it was sold into whatever it considers itself to be now). I was ranked first in Atlanta on Urbanspoon for number of reviews. Fun fact- I created the Playing Game away message for AIM when I was 18. You are very welcome Gen Xers.
Excited to see where Polywork takes me and itself.
(Edited post so it would not autoinclude a link to FB as I don't support that platform and don't encourage folks using it in general)