User:Samuel Thornkey/sandbox

Polymorph is a collaborative web workspace operated by Polymorph Inc. headquartered in Sydney, Australia. It offers a real time collaborative space with a variety of features. Polymorph was founded in 2019 by Samuel Thornkey and Steven Liu from the University of Sydney, with seed funding provided by the Incubate program at the university.

For users, Polymorph offers a variety of different UI screens called 'operators' such as lists, calendars and word processing. These can be worked on collaboratively by different users in real time. Polymorph uses the progressive web app platform for native support on a variety of devices.

Polymorph has three primary components: an underlying data model that provides a messaging layer and data storage, a UI layer which facilitates window management, and a set of operators for users to utilise. For developers. Polymorph is extensible via an operator module system.

History
Polymorph founder Steven Liu conceived the idea in 2019 after having developed multiple small task management applications and realising that many of the elements of these applications were similar. Additionally he noted that existing services at the time were unable to