walkthe.net - get reviews via feedbackroulette.com

As you can read in my tips for 'better doing': ask feedback whenever you can on how you're doing. That goes for when you're developing a concept web application too. I found a great site for just that. It is called feedbackroulette.com and similar to the chatroulette principle it shows you a random site to give feedback on in terms of usability, content, design and overall value. For every site you evaluate, you get a point that allows one of your sites to enter the roulette.

The concept of giving feedback to other's work in order to receive feedback on yours amongst peers is fabulous. When I first entered this site about two weeks ago, I got a little frustrated that after evaluating 5 sites myself with evaluation markings of 5 stars, my site had still not received any feedback. I guess it takes some time to enter the roulette. But I got my evaluations in, and they are very useful comments. I'll use them to update the site soon.

Here's how it works: you evaluate random sites and give stars on 4 criteria, and put in comments on what you like and what you would suggest improving. The site owner gets your anonymous feedback and gives a score for the feedback quality from 1-5 stars. I'm proud to say that my average feedback quality still stands at 5 stars today. It is important, because your evaluators are matched to people who have similar scores of quality feedback. The better you evaluate others, the better evaluators you'll get yourself.

The site does impose a time limit to give a quality mark on your feedback, and since I was unavailable last week, I missed that deadline so those evaluators got automatic scores by the system that are lower than what I'd given them. Sorry, lack of time!

If you are a site owner, I can only recommend this site and its concept. And if you're not, you should still get feedback on how you're doing any other way you can...