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• May 2
🎨 The Critique Guild
Every developer, designer, writer, and creator can relate : receiving actual feedback. Building in isolation makes improvement unnecessarily slow, something I relate on a high level.
That's why I built The Critique Guild.
Join topic-specific communities. Post your work. Get expert
feedback from peers who get it. Improve before it matters. Climb the leaderboard and grow exponentially
Built on Anything. Fully remixable:
→ Design teams (internal review spaces)
→ Book clubs (member feedback)
→ Hackathon reviewers
→ Startups, studios, classrooms—anything with a community
Community-driven. Reputation-based. Growth in results.
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Built the Brand Presence of r/design_critiques, from 30 to 5.4K Weekly Visitors
r/design_critiques is a community that helps new and amateur designers improve their work through honest, constructive critique. Over 2 months, I shaped how the brand shows up on Reddit: its voice, its culture, and its content. That took the subreddit from 30 to 5.4K weekly visitors.
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Defined a welcoming, feedback-first tone of voice for the community
Set the standards for how critiques are given, so the brand stayed consistent and beginner-friendly
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