When I first started out as a designer I lived in the ##design IRC channel. Whenever I just moved one small thing, I would post a screenshot to the chat. Most of the time people would ignore it but some of the time people would say, ‘oh, this part sucks, you need to move it’. That informed everything I know about design and is my inspiration for creating Ocean. I'd love your feedback on the site!

This is interesting. I like the focus on the design critique which is lacking on Dribbble.

What are your thoughts on having the option to hide the feedback from others? Perhaps it's good to allow another designer to critique without the influence of other designer's comments. Plus, if multiple designers comment on the same thing then it became even more meaningful.

This is what Dribbble should've been. You should add a section for people to provide proper context on their design so others can give informed/objective feedback.

Great app tho.

This is a great idea and I've been wanting it for a while. The one thing I would ask is that there be an option for posting items visible only to members.

I feel that in order to put work out there that honestly needs critique is to put yourself into a vulnerable position. To do that requires a safe environment. Airing all your dirty laundry and discussing it in the public does not afford that.

Just consider why people don't post their works in progress on Dribbble.

Some feedback:

• You should highlight comments of the user who posted the screenshot so that it's obvious she's talking about her own design.
• On a touch device it's almost impossible to read comments. Whenever you tap on a existing comment, a new comment is added instead. Also you have no "esc" key to cancel the commenting.
• You definitely should give the option to edit your comment after you have posted it. Essential for any commentary system.
• You should better highlight the existing comments. At a "heavy" screenshot (like here: http://ocean.ink/p/show/5467a028e5d2ff020064eb3c) it's very hard to see them.
• You should better foolproof the commenting. Because right now I posted a comment, lost the internet connection meanwhile and my comment was gone. If you encounter a network problem (or Ajax returns an error) you should at least show the text (even if it wasn't posted) so that it isn't gone. Also you should give a status of the posting - like "Your comment is getting posted right now" and then "Your comment was posted".

Apart from that I LOVE your platform and hope that it will be a HUGE success, gain traction and a lot of commenters. This could be something very big!

This is amazing. Love seeing a community built around real feedback.

A couple of things I'd suggest:

1. A way to upvote/downvote or mark feedback as helpful/unhelpful. Or even guidelines for feedback that are used to evaluate this. Just browsing various posts, I saw some pretty worthless feedback like "not sure about your color scheme." Not specific, not helpful.

2. A way to hide the circles for the comments. Sometimes they obscure the design so I can't see what the comment is referring to. (Example: "Do you need 2 icons here?" and circle covers the icons completely.) Maybe they could be slightly opaque, etc.

3. Some sort of information about the people posting. How many years of experience? Is this a creative director or a student? I'd want to know how seriously I should take the commenter. I'm not going to take a random stranger's advice without proof they know what they are talking about. I know that sounds snobby, but for professional work, I think it's a concern.

Great idea! I will definitely come back and provide some feedback on the designs and also post screenshots of my own work. Thank you!

I love it! Long time I'm looking for a place to get real feedback from other designers, and to give mine. I like the fact that you can add a spot right at the place you want to give a comment on. That would avoid the dribbble style "wow", "cool".... etc. But it's not appropriate when you want to give a global feedback on the design, which is not necessary linked to a precise spot on the design. And it force to click on every spot (difficult to spot precisely on ipad!).

Could we have all the comments also visible as a list below the design?

And one more thing (feedback):

• It should be possible to add a general comment to a design, not to a specific part. Because sometimes I just want to say "Looks great, I wouldn't change anything". But now, where should I put that?

Great idea, I love that the focus is on actual feedback! Kinda like a crowdsourced version of RedPen.

This is awesome I've been needing a community like this since Zurb shut down Forrst. I'm actually still bitter that I didn't get a beta invite to Tavern since I was a paid Forrst member and all.

Reminds me of Hunie, I was surprised not to see it mentioned here. It's funny how quickly people forget older products once they're not the latest trend anymore…

But hopefully Ocean can succeed where Hunie didn't and become the go-to place for design critiques :)

Wow, this looks awesome! Been browsing around a bit but haven't uploaded something myself yet, I'm wondering if you have @2x support? Most designs look like crap on my retina display currently.

Love it. Experiencing an issue seeing some comments that are near the edge of the browser. The comments should relocate to fit within the browser window. I'l definitely give this a whirl in future projects!

Congrats on the launch, Henry! ^{_^}

I just signup 10 minutes ago but I'm feeling comfortable inside, it's a Plus.

You have awesome product, less options but straight to the point.

I like the easy interface, but not too sure about typography and some colors options..

Keep it simple, good luck :)

Looks good!

I'm stuck in a loop on 'Last step... What's your email?', i can't get past it at the moment, every time i try i get a new welcome email