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by allig256 930 days ago
Are there any good platforms out there that people would recommend where you can have your code reviewed? Either paid for or for free.

As this article points out, feedback is an essential part of learning, and open source projects would be a great opportunity to get feedback on something you have sole agency over as opposed to many workplace projects where it's harder to receive feedback for your individual decisions.

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If the code is fairly short, there is https://codereview.stackexchange.com/
Depending on how good you are at programming, LLMs would probably have some good feedback.
Sadly with the limited context sizes on LLMs, you can't ingest a large project at all once to ask for feedback on the more abstract requirements of "good" software practices/design.

That is unless the context sizes have significantly changed in the past months.

Send PRs to open source projects you’re interested in?
Open source projects are flooded by low-quality PRs, they can't afford to give mentor-quality feedback to them. Better to join the project's chat server and have back-and-forth discussions.
Often they will provide good feedback if your PR is legitimate.
And ask them to review your own projects? That seems a little odd doesn't it? I am wanting feedback specifically for my own work.
Why does it have to be your project? You can make substantial technical decisions for someone else's project and get feedback on it.
University?