On Peerlist?
Add a site that is fully yours.
Peerlist is a real professional network for people in tech, with a community, a feed, and profiles that other members can find and follow. A network is something Portfolio is not, and if belonging to that community is the goal, keep your Peerlist profile. What Portfolio adds is a website you fully own: paste your resume and get a multi-page site on your own domain, a designer resume, a live ATS score, and a matched cover letter. Many people run both, and the honest split is below.
What Peerlist is good at.
A fair account before the comparison. Peerlist is a network first, and its strength is the people on it. If reach and community are what you want, that is exactly its job.
A feed, connections, and a place where other members discover and follow your work.
A structured profile built for engineers, designers, and product people to show projects.
Being on the platform means being visible to a crowd already looking for talent.
People who want to belong to a community and be found inside it are well placed here.
Peerlist and Portfolio, judged fairly.
They solve different problems. Peerlist wins on network and discovery inside its community. Portfolio wins when you want a website you own and control, drafted from a resume.
| Peerlist | Portfolio | |
|---|---|---|
| Best at | A professional network and community | A website you own, drafted from your resume |
| Community | Yes, a genuine one | None, it is not a network |
| Where it lives | On the Peerlist platform | On your own custom domain |
| Structure | A profile inside a feed | Separate pages for work, about, projects, contact |
| Resume tooling | Profile fields | Designer resume with a live ATS score |
| Cover letter | No | Matched to the same profile |
| Designs | A platform look | 60 designs tuned for professional sites |
| API | Varies | REST API |
To be part of a tech community and get discovered inside it, Peerlist is the tool. For a site you own on your own domain with a scored resume, that is what Portfolio is for.
When to stay on Peerlist.
Portfolio is not a network and will not pretend to be one. If the community and being found within it are the point, Peerlist is the better tool, and we will say so.
Move to Portfolio if you
- +Want a website on your own domain rather than a profile inside a platform.
- +Want the resume itself scored live and shaped into a designer resume.
- +Want separate pages for work, about, and contact, not a single feed profile.
- +Want a matched cover letter drawn from the same profile as the site.
Keep Peerlist if you
- −Value the network and want to be discovered by peers. Peerlist is better here.
- −Want a feed, connections, and activity inside a community.
- −Are happy for your profile to live on a shared platform.
- −Care more about reach among other members than about owning a domain.
Peerlist questions, answered.
Straight answers on what each does and why running both can make sense.
Is Portfolio a professional network like Peerlist?
No, and it does not claim to be. Peerlist is a real network with a community and a feed, and that is its strength. Portfolio builds a website you own from your resume, with a designer resume, a live ATS score, and a matched cover letter. There is no social graph in Portfolio, so if the network is what you want, keep Peerlist.
Can I use both?
Yes, and many people do. Keep your Peerlist profile for the community and discovery, and use Portfolio for a site on your own domain that you control end to end. They cover different needs and do not conflict.
What does the ATS score add?
It shows live how readable your resume is to an applicant tracking system, so nothing important is lost in parsing. You can try the free ATS score checker first.
Do I own the site Portfolio builds?
Yes. It sits on your own custom domain with TLS handled automatically, so it is not a profile inside someone else's platform. That ownership is the main difference from a network.
How does Portfolio build the site?
You paste your resume and it drafts the pages, the copy, and a matched designer resume. See resume to portfolio for how each section becomes a page.
Should I leave Peerlist?
Not for the network. Peerlist is a genuine community and Portfolio does not replace that. Add Portfolio when you also want a website you own with a scored resume beside your Peerlist presence.
Keep reading.
The product, how a resume becomes a site, and the free tool to check your resume.
Keep the network.
Own the website.
Stay on Peerlist for the community it gives you. When you also want a website that is fully yours, paste your resume into Portfolio and get a multi-page site, a scored resume, and a matched cover letter in about a minute, on your own domain with TLS handled for you.