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Interesting to see their approach and the reasons why they are not building more features on top of ArXiv. Although comments on papers might be a dangerous area to venture into there are definitely places on the web where the ability to annotate and comment papers is helping science move forward. A good example is the Polymath project and Terry Tao's blog. Tao's recent solution to the Erdos discrepancy problem,an 80-year-old number theory problem, was actually triggered by a comment on his blog. Another example is www.fermatslibrary.com. Although the papers in the platform are more historical/foundational, they were able to get consistently good/constructive comments that help people understand papers better.

As I mentioned in the comment above it really depends on the designer, but you should expect some constructive and thorough feedback :)

1. If you Sign Up and click "Get Feedback" on the designer's profile page, you will see some notes the designer left about his pricing. Then you put together the materials needed for the feedback request (images/notes) and offer a price based on the designer's guidelines. If the designer accepts your request, you'll get charged once the designer delivers the feedback.

2. You should agree on that with the designer when you are requesting the feedback.

3. It really depends on the designer. Some people might tweak your designs on Photoshop/Illustrator, others might send you hand drawn mockups or just notes. Our designers have been curated by the community, based on the quality of their previous work and so you should expect insightful feedback. Also if you're looking for something specific, like Photoshop edits for instance, you should mention that when requesting the feedback.

That really depends on the designer that is giving feedback. Some people might edit some things on Photoshop, others might send you some hand drawn mockups or just write you some notes on your designs. You can always set the conditions upfront with the designer before paying him for feedback.

It's usually the designer that sets up the prices for feedback. To see it you must click the "Get Feedback" button on the designer's profile page.

randomdrake thanks for your feedback! There are definitely some performance/design issues that we need to fix. Regarding the sign up process: If you sign up as a designer, your application is going to be reviewed by the community and if you are accepted you'll be able to get feedback requests, job offers or contract works on pixelfold. If you sign up as a person that hires designers you'll be able to request those jobs from the designers in the community.

Throwaway0812 thanks for the suggestions! The "group feedback" feature seems an interesting idea. Since we don't have that feature implemented I would suggest that you find a good designer and ask him for feedback. I am sure that with your budget you can get some helpful feedback.

drcode this is exactly the kind of use case that we envisioned in the beginning when we came up with the idea for paid feedback. You submit the request and the designer writes you back some notes or sends you some mockups of how you could improve your current design.

The premise is that you might not have money to hire a top designer, but you have enough to ask him for feedback. If you liked the designer's work/feedback you can always make him a job offer through Pixelfold (although that's not mandatory)