# Polygig - a Job board and Crypto Freelance Market platform never touches your payout

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**Created:** [August 28, 2026, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/polygig-a-job-board-and-crypto-freelance-market-platform-never-touches-your-payout/75371 "2026-08-28T13:44:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zedonboy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.dfinity.org/zedonboy/32/14587_2.png) [@Zedonboy](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/Zedonboy)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/polygig-a-job-board-and-crypto-freelance-market-platform-never-touches-your-payout/75371/1 "2026-08-28T13:44:25Z")

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been heads-down building Polygig ([https://polygig.io](https://polygig.io)), a job board and freelance marketplace built entirely on the Internet Computer, and I’m happy to finally share it.

The thing that’s bugged me about every job board / gig platform I’ve used — as both a client and a freelancer — is the cut. 10, 20% of every payment just… gone, sitting between two people who already agreed on a price. So I built Polygig around one rule: the platform doesn’t touch your money. Posting a job costs a flat 10 ckUSDC listing fee, full stop. Every payout after that goes straight from the job owner to the person doing the work — no percentage skimmed off milestones or salary, no invisible spread.

A few other things that are in there from day one:

- It’s a real job board. Browse open jobs, see the full listing — description, required skills, salary/payout info, who’s hiring — and apply. Not just a “post a gig and hope” model.
- Two ways to hire. Standard proposal-based jobs (post → review proposals → bring on collaborators → pay milestones or an ongoing salary), or competitions — post a brief, let people submit entries, pay out the one you pick.
- Payouts in ckUSDC and other ICRC tokens, released by the owner as work is delivered, not locked up in some opaque escrow you have to trust a company with.
- AI-assisted job search to help people actually find relevant work instead of scrolling forever.
- It’s just canisters. No AWS bill, no traditional backend — the frontend is served by the canister itself.

It’s early — still working on a proper dashboard view, per-project Kanban-style workspaces for collaborators, and rate-limiting on search. But the core loop (post/browse a job, hire, pay, leave a review) is live at [polygig.io](http://polygig.io).

Would love feedback, especially from anyone who’s dealt with the pain of job boards/freelance platforms taking a cut, or anyone building on ICP who wants to poke at how I’m handling ckUSDC transfers/fees.

Thanks for reading 🙏