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Brutal Teardowns — Get honest feedback and actionable advice for your website
Brutal TearDowns is a collection of site critiques with brutally honest feedback and actionable advice.
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@ramykhuffash Yeah that's basically where it comes from. I noticed the same trend on reddit where people kept asking for 'brutally honest' feedback.
I toyed with the name for a while, because I thought some people might be put off by it (the alternative choice was "ConstructiveCritiques.com"), but in the end I decided it was just too well-aligned to what people were asking for, and it was something that gave me way too much ability to play around with.
Hi Everyone!
It's been a while since I've posted anything new on ProductHunt, but I thought I'd share my latest creation with you all today.
The idea for Brutal TearDowns began when I started giving really detailed feedback to people on Reddit on posts like this one and this one. People seemed to enjoy not just the detailed advice I was giving, but the brutally honest way in which I was delivering it, and I began to wonder if there was a business model that could be wrapped around that.
After deciding on a really fun brand direction, I put together a sales page and was ready to tear down the world. But, I really struggled with how to showcase "what you get" as part of a teardown. I thought about providing example teardowns in exchange for an e-mail address, or just including lots of testimonials, but ultimately I thought it was important to really let people see what was involved.
So, what I'm hunting to ProductHunt today is more of a showcase of teardowns, rather than a straight-out service-based site. I've begun with a few of the teardowns I've already publicly done, and will be adding more each week to give readers a chance to really learn from other teardowns I've done. The really brave ones can even submit their site to be featured in a teardown.
Anyway, it's been fun to put together. Hope you all enjoy!
This is a great idea, @rosscurrie I've seen your work on Reddit, and it's a great idea to make it a service. Thanks for the detailed and informative teardowns so far - am critiquing my own sites as I write this!
@milesb Building this site has definitely made me look at my own projects in a harsher light! Thanks for providing feedback along the way Miles!
Love this, 'radical transparency' is certainly all the rage and what @rosscurrie has built here is a brilliant angle for soliciting good old fashioned honest feedback.
So many awful websites, hopefully people are open to the idea and can make the web a better place!
This is amazing! No filter feedback. Sometimes (very) tough love is what's needed to improve. Great job
I'm going to get torn to bits for this but all I see here is a guy with an opinion and an agenda. I like the brand and I can see that your writing is intentionally humorous, but other than that... I don't think your own site is all that and a bag of chips.
I'd much rather rather see people make changes to their site based on validated metrics and running experiments as opposed the opinion of one person; no matter who that person may be.
Enjoyed browsing through this, very well done. One thing I would recommend is giving the reader some reason to know and trust what you're saying. A "Who am I" to be speaking with authority on these subjects.
It feels very meta to be giving feedback on a feedback website...
@johnbolling Get over yourself, only a meta hipster comments out loud about their meta feeling giving review feedback on a review product. I have no problems with my brutal reply's nature. Tame meat ma crony!
@andydentperth1 not sure how I offended you but ok. If you actually read the comment you may have understood that I said he needs a "why listen to me", otherwise he comes across as just another ahole with an opinion... which may be the look you were going for here. Anyways, good luck with it mate.
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