Peter Johnston
@multiplay3r
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Founder, storyteller, occasional pixel pusher & Dad. Ex-Polywork, Ex-Google. Ex-Saatchi. I play basketball, collect old watches and invest in cool companies.
New York
Joined October 2009
Hey folks, 👋. I wanted to share some news today that after 3.5 years, I made the call to shut @Polywork down and return the remaining capital to investors. Working on Polywork, especially in the first 18 months was the highlight of my career. I read somewhere that building
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Who's been meaning to create a personal website literally forever? 😅. Paste your LinkedIn Profile --> get a beautiful personal site instantly. with all your content already pulled in 🔥. Try it out here and give us an upvote! 👊
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I'm excited to announce that @Polywork has raised a $28m Series B co-led by @natfriedman & Caffeinated Capital (@tonsing) 🥳🚀. w/.Lyft's @johnzimmer .Stripe's @patrickc .Clubhouse's @pdavison.Instacart's @Max & @fidjissimo .Lattice's @jaltma.Divvy Home's @AdenaHefets .& more👇🧵.
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Welcoming @sriramk of @a16z and some other awesome folks to Team Polywork!!🙏☺️💜:. Stripe's @patrickc.Instagram's @mikeyk .Github's @natfriedman .Reddit's @alexisohanian .Behance's @scottbelsky .Product Hunt's @rrhoover .@eladgil @APompliano & more!.
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I dont know if Polywork is going to be an app that people use everyday yet, its too early to tell. but we hit 2k DAUs today ☺️ 🚀🙏.
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Looking for an illustrator for a freelance project for next 1-2 months. Moonlight/weird hours fine, just minimum need someone 15 hours a week. Examples of our new beautiful style included…. Retweets/shares appreciated! 🥳🙏🎨🖌🖼 . Apply here:
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Hey everyone 👋 we build a little something for Twitter! 🐦 @Polywork 's mission is to empower people to collaborate with anyone, on anything. so we wanted to see if we could make it easier to find your people and collaborate, right here on Twitter. 🧵
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Hey everyone! 👋 @PolyworkHQ is hiring. We offer a $5k referral bonus for anyone we hire that's sent our way - DM me + Shares appreciated! 🙏. Very competitive comp 💰 + benefits 🏝️. - Senior Rails Engineers.- Lead iOS Developer.- Senior Product Manager.
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Has anyone been putting off creating a personal website forever and would like to try a new product? I'd personally white glove onboard you. 1 year free on the Premium Version for any early adopters who end up liking it. 👨🏻💻🙏😎.
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We are hiring senior product designers @Polywork DM me! Must have consumer startup experience. Competitive compensation. Big vision. Healthy runway. We pay a $10k referral fee for anyone who sends us a candidate we hire! 🙏🚀.
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We're not in Belfast anymore mum!! ❤️☘️ The amazing and formidable @cassidoo talking about @PolyworkHQ on @GMA this morning!! 🤯🤯☀️ in the next 30 minutes! Proud Day!! 🙏🚀
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OMG we won!!!!! 🥺🤯🥇🏆🚀🥳 . Creator Economy Product of the Year!! Thank you all so much for your help voting and the support over the last year! you gorgeous people!!!
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Can we talk about that @cassidoo dark mode avatar? 😍 They even designed a charmander pin badge!!
HUGE DRUMROLL, PLEASE. 🥁. Dark Mode is finally here!!! 🖤💜🖤💜. Tweet a screenshot of your sleek new profile and tag us—we'll be picking 3 of you at random and making you a custom 3D illustrated Dark Mode avatar!🤘🌚🤘
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Hey folks,. Today is a big day for us here @Polywork. We end our private beta, open to everyone and are live on @ProductHunt!. We would love any support you can give by upvoting and telling us on there why you love the product. 🧵 .
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I'm really excited for this one. Welcoming Delip Rao (@deliprao) as Polywork's Head of Machine Learning. A veteran NLP/ML Engineer and Author 🙏. Why I'm excited about working with Delip in building a new intelligence layer for the professional world. 👇.
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New app, who dis? Launched our iOS app today in Apple store… just look at all those verified check marks 😅🔥🚀
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Alright web3, here goes. 😏. You can now search on @Polywork for professionals who are: 'Open to NFT projects' or 'Joining DAOs'. then filter by type eg. 'Product Designer' or 'Illustrator'. Just launched & 733 people available inc. Designers from Stripe, Netflix & more 🔥🚀
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Hiring a senior product designer @Polywork 👋👩🎨. Early stage consumer experience a must have. Looking for full stack designer that can go from user research through to pixel perfection. Min 8+ years exp. Remote role. $10k referral fee to public. Shares appreciated! 🙏🎨💰.
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Who are the absolute best freelance visual designers on the planet? The ones you dream of working with… . For short term project. Full time freelance or moonlighting in evenings fine. Will pay $1k referral fee. Retweets/shares appreciated! 🌎🎨🚀💰.
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Stand by my decision not to put the word Polywork on our swag 😅😎
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We’re hiring designers @Polywork for anyone who has been laid off recently. Looking for Senior Product Designer & Visual Designer (ideally consumer experience) 🚀🎨. Tons of runway, 20 person company, design founder. $15k referral fee for anyone that sends us a designer! 💵.
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We’re hiring both a Lead Product Designer and Visual Designer at @Polywork 🎨. If anyone knows any great folks impacted by layoffs/looking for a new role, send them my way!. $15k referral fee for any hires we make 🙏.
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Well LinkedIn escalated things quickly.😅👀 .Fortunately the word Polywork is well and truly trademarked and owned by us. So they can add as many L's as they want. It won't stop the rocketship🚀👊.
If you want to see how much of a threat @PolyworkHQ is to @LinkedIn try going to (extra L) and you'll be redirected to
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There’s nothing a founder should be doing more than spending time with early super users- the insights you unlock are invaluable. Polywork will look and feel very different in a months time. So excited 🙌.
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My first meeting of week is MMMM (Monday Morning Metrics Meeting). Anyway, Polywork is growing 10%, per day. LFG!! 💥.
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We're hiring a Lead iOS Engineer for @PolyworkHQ!. We're having ALOT of fun working on our iOS experience ☺️😎 Design centric team, competitive salary, totally remote. Shares Appreciated! 🙏.
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As of 8 minutes ago, we had our second ex-Tweep sign to start at Polywork. A designer and an engineer! 2023 lets go!! 🐦🚀.
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We're hiring a Senior Product Designer for @PolyworkHQ .Design centric team, totally remote, competitive salary etc. If you know anyone, please share it along! 🚀🙏.
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Look mom, we created a word.😲🤯📕. ‘Polywork’ is now in the Cambridge Dictionary!! 🙏🚀.
Our new #Words this week are all job related: #PivotSpace, #AskGap and #Polywork. 🏢🤑👔. Do you know what these words mean? Have a look here for the definitions: #ESL #Vocabulary #Vocab #EnglishOnline #EnglishClass.
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My last company failed & the hardest part was letting go of colleagues. With @PolyworkHQ growing. I got to hire back our amazing Head of People Ops @MarleeSezer !!! 🥳👏. The 1st photo is when Marlee told me she decided to re-join, the 2nd from our first day this week!! 😅☺️
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Hey folks 👋we are hiring a senior product designer here @Polywork. Ideally would have consumer experience and be on EST or PST but we are flexible!. Referral fee is $10k if you send them our way and we hire them! 🥳💵🙏. Retweets appreciated!💜
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I’m convinced he doesn’t actually love me, but rather sees me only as his personal treat dispenser 🐶🍬
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Polywork will be two years old this Christmas and for the first time today I’m meeting our entire team of 20 in person at our first ever team offsite 🚀🤯 Such a bizarre thing to say, but I’m hyped!! Pics to follow 😎.
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Confident at this point LinkedIn is fucking with me… I’m not quite sure my skills would translate? 😅🐔
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Idk what it is but after 7 years as a founder, to this day I don’t think there’s any feeling that beats shipping a big update to your own iOS app📱🥰
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If I wrote down on paper the stuff that happened this week for my future self — the people I got to meet, progress made, insights unlocked, highs and lows — there’s no version of me that would read it and think it wasn’t completely and utterly fanciful…😂🙃🤷🏼♂️. Happy Friday!🙏.
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Well, I’m confident he loves his Thanksgiving outfit. Nailed it. 🐶
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Anyone got any amazing webflow developer recommendations? Need someone to build some pixel perfect landing pages! Shares appreciated! 🎨🙏👨🏻💻.
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As a hyper obsessive product designer, this stretched Twitter verified icon is giving me ALL the anxiety 😭😂
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What they don’t tell you in tech…. It’s really just all about the swag. 😅🧦🔥
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And to the phenomenal @cassidoo we're so proud to get to polywork with you every week and have you as an advsior helping shape the future with us. See what I did there btw? I used polywork as a verb. Just in case anyone missed that 😀😅
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Small & mighty update 🥳🚀. Until now you could only search @Polywork by a person's name. You can now search by Company, Positions & Username 🔎. The next update I believe will be the 1st of its kind for professional search & will change how we find one another. Stay tuned!😏🙏
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I started my 1st company just out of school w/ @peteyhawkins back in Belfast 🍀. Over the last 14+ yrs, I've watched him build amazing product after product & get his last co acquired. He's also one of the best rails engineers on the planet.🌍. This week he joins @polywork! ☺️🚀.
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Such an exciting feeling when you have three new joiners on the same Monday. ! 🥳 It's going to be exciting ride! . Welcoming @dylanginsburg leading iOS dev, @slowbeam joining our web eng team, and @hannahccopeland joining our GTM team! . So excited to work with you all! 🚀🚀🚀.
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Gotta love a TechCrunch article + Product Hunt launch in the same month… 😅🚀
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What a time to be building a consumer co as the world transitions from web2 to web3. Every conversation around community and ownership has a different level of energy and excitement. So pumped to be working in this space 🙏👊🚀.
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The magic begins. 🪄. We hire people because of their talent AND who they are, their interests & passions. You can now search 15,000+ people open to Open Source Contributions on @Polywork. AND. if you need to, you can filter by 'Trekkies'. 😅👽🪐. I love this product.
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There’s something so cool about getting old school print coverage! 📰. Thanks to @conormcmahon from @SunTimesIreland for the interview. Was the 1st time I’ve talked about my last company failing after 7 years & how Polywork was born. Whiskeys on me when I’m next home 🙏☘️🥃
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Ship fast. 🚀🚀🚀.
📢NEW FEATURES! Here's a rundown of all the shiny new stuff you'll find on Polywork☺️. 1. New Trending Badges page. Explore popular badges, find new badges by type, and add new badges directly from the Trending Badges page🚀. Explore it here:
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I met my first Twitter friend in person today!! 🤯 @ryandawidjan. We schemed, compared apps and I realized I need a hat with my company logo on it.
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This is our most powerful feature, by far. It's called:. Space Station. 🚀🛰🪐. On the same page, I can see VCs open to investing (of course) but also designers from Netflix & Facebook, Engineers from SFDC etc. The polywork trend is real and there are truly no lanes anymore.
**Feature Announcement** 🥁📣. Introducing: Space Station! 👨🚀🪐🛰️. Space Station is a new way for people to find each other on Polywork—including speakers, mentors, investors, content creators, partners for side projects, podcast guests & more.
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Crazy to think that this time last year @Polywork was just getting started… 👶🤯. I put together a collection of my top highlights in 2021, from launching, raising funding, hiring our team &more! 😎.
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We launched 'Collections today' a major step forward to helping people represent what they do! @scottbelsky text to say it would be great for people sharing resources. 10mins later I spot @dossiette using it for this exact reason! 🔥🔥 LOVE startups ☺️
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Let me know if anyone would like an invite to the @PolyworkHQ TestFlight! It's prettyyyyy 🔥🎟
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Just recorded latest episode of @Polywork Conversations, mind was blown. product designer working in tech making $1m+ in side income annually. 🤯🎨🤑. So epic to have someone cool talk about it so openly, want to see more of this!. Pumped for it to go live, stay tuned! 🎙🙏.
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No meeting days are the single best workplace invention, ever.
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We're launching a Web TV Docu-Series @Polywork Looking for six stars for six episodes. !🤩🎬📺 . Know anyone that has a successful side hustle/project bringing them in income?. Tag them below or complete our form. $500 Apple Voucher if we pick your referral. Shares appreciated!🙏.
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Two months ago @anothercohen tweeted he’d been enjoying Polywork. I followed him 👀. I thought I spotted him IRL in Palo Alto this morning. I approached. I said hi. I met his 2 week old baby 👶. Alex and I chatted. He was lovely. Twitter is wonderful sometimes, life too. 🌅☺️🙏.
Big fan of @PolyworkHQ, almost done filling out my profile. It's the perfect balance of Twitter/LinkedIn. My personal domain will migrate over tomorrow. I also have 4 invites left! .
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"LinkedIn's cooler, younger sister" Love it! 😅🔥. Thank you @tamioladipo from @buffer for the shout out for @Polywork. Big fan of Locket and BeReal too!🚀🙏❤️.
Have you heard of Polywork, BeReal, or Locket?. These are just a few new social media platforms that are currently rising in popularity. Our latest blog shares a few more platforms you may not have heard of yet and dives into what each of them offers.
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Looking for a freelancer designer available immediately for some beautiful pixel perfect marketing pages for @Polywork that our team will then build in webflow. Must have example portfolio of incredible sites designed to pixel perfection. Shares appreciated! 🙏🎨👩🎨.
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Had alot of fun chatting to @SkyNews today about polyworking and workplace trends for 2023!. Apparently I was in surprisingly good spirits for 2am 😅🙏🎬
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To my teammates @meghanelyons @cssjg @chpolk @me_breuer and many others Im so proud to be on this journey with you! 💜. To our advisors @cassidoo @EmilyKager @engineering_bae @brian_lovin @kvlly @ASpittel & @adellecharles thank you for your help shaping Polywork! 🙏
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Finally met the man, the myth, the legend @joeyabanks IRL! He crushed it at his talk + got a shout out from @zoink too 🔥. Most important, we are of course clearly starting a basketball team together, who’s in!? 😅🏀
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We got push notifications on @Polywork iOS app and I’m way too excited about it. The little things 😍@louis_currie @dylanginsburg
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So. Turns out I will be speaking LIVE on Bloomberg TV tonight speaking about @PolyworkHQ 📺🤯😭. Main objective: don't forget how to speak words. Joking aside 😅. you can watch it here:
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Small but mighty milestone. our first feed algorithm!.👊💥🚀. Since launching 3 months ago my feeds been all kinds of weird & wonderful highlights, now its more personalized to the stuff Polywork thinks I'll like. Seeing lots of design + music stuff. not bad for a v1 😅
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So surreal to see Polywork on the big screen! Old School!! 😅📺🚀
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What @packyM has created with @notboringco is INCREDIBLE🥳🙏 Don't sleep on this opportunity. He's looking for freelance web designers/developers want to build the Not Boring website! 👨🏻💻🛠. Check out the listing here:.
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One of my favorite parts of being a designer and storyteller is when people notice the Easter Eggs you've hidden in your product. Love the little details 💜.
Scroll @Polywork website and you will see a copy of @harari_yuval Sapiens. Details do matter. It's perfectly aligned with their audience. I noticed it and now I want to know more about their website.
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So we're down to the final 10 for Product of the Year alongside these really small apps like ChatGPT, DALL-E-2 and BeReal. so it should be a walk in the park? 🌳😅. Do your good deed for the year and help the little guys out will ya? 😂🙏🚀 .
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Anyone else seen Everything Everywhere All At Once? . Didn’t know what to say after I watched it. Multiverses, alternative paths we could take, sad, hilarious, poignant. 95% on Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t do it justice. 🍿🍅. Phenomenal.
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In true polyworking style, I'm now a podcaster 🥳🎧 We launched '@Polywork Conversations'!. Was so hyped to chat w/ @NickyChulo, Grammy-Award-Winning Art Director. We talked designing sneakers, working w/ @IssaRae & how creatives at big co's are navigating having side projects.
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Wondering if ya’ll can help me…?. Who are the best product designers or design leaders out there who are angel investing? 🎨😇💵.
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Argument for not having a fancy expensive landing page. 😏. This is currently converting 31% of visitors. It took one hour to build. 🚀 .
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So excited to welcome Ben to the team to lead our 3D efforts! His work is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥.
Here it is! I am joining @polywork as Lead 3D Artist! Working closely with @multiplay3r the last few months I've fallen in love with the platform and the mission to let the world know what each of us are capable of. Exciting times ahead! Check it out with my invite code: benvip
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@cassidoo 😂😂 literally just tweet about this, ALLL the anxiety.
As a hyper obsessive product designer, this stretched Twitter verified icon is giving me ALL the anxiety 😭😂
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First Big Tech Alert tweet, milestone achieved 😮😅.
👥 @johnzimmer (Lyft Co-Founder) is now following @Polywork.
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