r/design_critiques

Hi, over the past 2 months I built Fluxychat because I wanted a small, inspectable realtime chat stack on Cloudflare instead of running a separate socket fleet and paying a heavy SaaS bill for "just rooms + delivery + ops hooks."

The stack:

- Cloudflare Worker handles HTTP + WebSocket

- One Durable Object per room for room state and delivery

- D1 for messages, metadata, quotas

- Next.js operator console on Vercel

- u/fluxy-chat/sdk -> FluxyChatClient, useChat, FluxyRealtimeProvider

What's live in open beta:

- Multi-tenant rooms over WebSocket

- JWTs scoped by tenant/project

- Agents with tool calls streamed in the room timeline

- Console for projects, rooms, agents, billing, webhooks

- MIT licensed and fully self-hostable on your own Cloudflare account

Demo video: Build Real Time Chat With Fluxychat

Try it: Create free account

Repo: https://github.com/AlessandroFare/fluxychat

I'd especially love feedback on:

1. The DO layout, one DO per room, is that the approach you'd take?

2. Whether signup friction is acceptable or I should ship a no-login demo room first

3. What would make you try the hosted version vs self-host?

Happy to go deep on the Durable Objects implementation in the comments.

So, im a 22M living in the US, and I'm struggling to stay afloat while working and also going to school full-time. Recently, I started my own brand/store, featuring all of my own cute, witchy, cottage-core, cozy-core aesthetic versions of tarot cards, with adorable chibi animals (mostly frogs for right now haha but that's changing everyday,) as the main focus point of the artwork. I'm really hoping that I can get this project off the ground soon, and 100% of everything I ever make will be going straight towards my educational expenses, and growing the project further too. I've already made several posts similar to this on different platforms, like twitter/x, and I can't seem to get any kind of real, specific, actionable feedback or critique's, everything I've recieved up until now has all been pretty vague, non-specific things and confusing, short responses. I'm now coming to you, reddit community, in the hopes that you all will be more helpful and detailed, and if you have the time, I'd love for you to come visit my page and tell me what you think! It's still actively in construction, and I'm adding new products with new artwork/designs everyday, and as often as I can, so if you think my work is okay, feel free to follow me and follow the project! Thank you so much for reading this! Hop into some magic with me TOAD-DAY!

my fourthwall page - everbright-shop.fourthwall.com

my redbubble too - tarotoads.redbubble.com

official twitter account - x.com/@storeeverbright

Thank you so much to anyone who leaves any kind of honest feedback, and please be as honest as possible! Have a wonderful rest of your day/night and I'm sending you all of my good vibes! <3

When you put the logo on its side you discover its not just a little man but its the initials of (DEC) Design Etch Cut
My projects can be seen here
https://www.facebook.com/share/179j6yK3gE/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Hi chat, nervous to post my work but I'm looking to get some feedback from yall. Currently on the job hunt in NY so I'm trying to improve on my portfolio pieces. Any advice? stefwirth.com/portfolio

Im going for a Nier x DARKSOULS mashup. Im trying to think of what else to add in to this tee to make it really stand out to people. I was thinking of adding maybe another color into the mix? Maybe some red decour or change some colors into the initial design or even add another design with a differenttone behind the original design but in a larger/lighter opacity to the original design. Some tone on tone action? Any thoughts or opinions? Please 🙏

I need all the advice and input anyone can give. I feel the pieces of furniture in my place are beautiful, but I draw a blank on how to incorporate anything else into my space. I’m talking rug, roman shade color/print, couch pillow prints & color, making the blanket on the blanket rack match. (—the rack is slightly not my thing but it hides the cords so I deal in the meantime) The wall right by the TV is so bare but I don’t want to put another rectangular item there. Maybe a sconce but thats small. It just seems like the obvious choice to put art work there and I want something more design forward. Whatever the heck I mean by that? I don’t even know. I’ve contemplated a dark burgundy rug, but is that a terrible idea. I don’t know what would mix well with that, and I’m scared to pigeon hole myself into not being able to work with many colors. I want something flexible BUT all my upholstery in my house is a light color so I really want to add some character and something more grand. But of course, I have commitment issues. Any insight, direction, comments, would probably help me sleep better at night! I’m really trying to convince myself I can do it myself and I don’t need an interior designer. Thank you, thank you in advance !!

The publisher looked at it on her phone and had trouble making heads or tails of what is even pictured here; I've been staring at it for weeks so I could really use some perspective! What sort of story would you guess this to be? What genre? What setting? Can you even figure out what is in the image?!

Been building a Chrome extension called Tweaklify because I honestly got tired of how annoying website editing workflows are 😭

The goal is to make editing websites feel visual instead of technical.

Right now you can:

• click any element and tweak styles visually
• edit spacing, colors, typography, shadows, borders etc through proper UX inputs instead of raw CSS
• double click text to edit content instantly
• open a live HTML editor and modify sections directly
• use AI to edit existing sections
• generate completely new sections with AI
• convert sections/components into React, Vue, Angular or Shopify Liquid
• preview changes live on the page
• experiment with layouts without constantly opening DevTools
• copy/export the generated section code directly into your project

The AI part is what I’m most excited about.

You can do stuff like:
“make this hero section look more modern”
“turn this into a Shopify section”
“convert this card component to React”
“add a pricing section below this”

and it generates/edit things directly on the page.

I’m trying to make it feel like Figma + DevTools + AI had a baby.

Still early but would genuinely love feedback:
What feature would make something like this actually useful for you?

You can check it out at --> Tweaklify.xyz

Hey everyone,

We’re currently developing The Ultimate Twins, an action-adventure game focused on immersive storytelling, cinematic gameplay, and a world inspired by rich cultural narratives.

We’ve been quietly building the project for a while, and recently decided it’s finally time to start sharing the journey publicly and connect with the community.

As a first step, we’d genuinely love to hear your thoughts on the Teaser we released back in February:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJsKIA_jvqw

We’re especially interested in hearing feedback on:

The overall atmosphere and tone

Combat presentation

Visual style and world design

What stood out to you most (good or bad)

We still have a long road ahead, but we’re excited to finally start engaging with fellow gamers and developers here.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

I’m struggling to find a background for this coaster, it just feels to plain but I don’t want to add to much. Let me know what I should try!

Hi everyone. Me and my friend started a Canadian soda brand a while back. For a long time now we've been ordering sticker type beer labels off of vistaprint and soon we'll be transitioning to new labels that are fully printed and cover the whole 16oz can. I'm also adding icon illustrations for the new labels to communicate the flavour at a quick glance.

Our company is only ran by me and my partner so I had to learn brand and label design completely on my own starting with zero experience. I'm not a professional designer by any means but I am trying my best because designing in house ourselves is very cost effecient and also makes the brand more personal to us.

Any feedback on the new labels would be greatly appreciated. In case you were wondering, these renders were made in blender and the labels themselves I'm designing in adobe illustrator!

Had to create some mannequin head boxes for work and would love any feedback. I don't feel 100% confident with this design (the spacing of a lot of stuff doesn't feel right to me... :c ) so any critiques are appreciated.

I would have ideally had a window for the actually head to be seen, but had no wiggle room on the box that is being used, so no window.

I posted a version the other day and someone asked what "reveal our infinite dignity means" and all I can really say is it is one of the company's slogans and they like to use it when possible. It something to do with the barbers/stylists providing more than a fresh look to a customer, but giving them back some dignity (or something like that, idk, I didn't make the slogan and tbh I don't really like it at all).

The requests for the box design were:

- Name of mannequin head on top of box (some stores stack the boxes so that only the top of the box is visible, so it needed to be clear about the color/name of the mannequin)
- Color on each box to match hair color
- Image of each head on box
- "Simple", minimal, typographic focused (last image is a box reference I was given)
- Include an illustrated graphic of a mannequin head side profile on front of box