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Re: Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker

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the pricing seems high for this service. $30 for a computer generated logo. $990 for a professionally designed logo. I'm pretty sure you can get a computer generated logo for free from a variety of services, and professional logos for much less than $990. The UX on the site isn't great, so I wouldn't really pay for a premium service.

It appears that there's a Black Friday deal right now to get the $900 VIP Package (professionally designed, etc) for $5.80.

Or it's an error.

Re: Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker

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I tried it out and the UI is poor. Things like clicking buttons don't result in any user-visible action, like a page loading, or even something bad (but not as terrible as nothing) like the button changing contents -- a couple of seconds later the next step happens. This means clicking is click, hope for the best, wait 300ms, get bored, click again, give up. Same for the search, type in a term, the list of icons disa…

If you click the "Pricing" link all the icons you selected and which items you liked or not go away, and you have to start almost all the way over.

I figured that would be the case so I tried to middle click the pricing page and found that that wouldn't work either

Re: Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> what am I paying for? A logo? Remove the automatic part and focus just on the deliverable; whether it's made by a computer or by a human, what you get is a few concepts before you select the one you like. And then you go with a lawyer to protect your IP.

Ok, why pay for a deliverable I might not be legally allowed to use, or might be associated with unknown follow-on costs to aquire that right? They are obtaining third-party resources somewhere, they would be in an excellent position to provide relevant documentation. Unless I'm missing it in the terms, the user isn't even clearly allowed to use their designs as the basis of a known-safe design, since they don't expl…

Third party resources? The problem isn't the stock images or shapes the generator uses, the problem is you could create a logo for "Disney" here or accidentally make something too close to Blogspot's logo because your company name has the same initials and you like the rounded square shape that gets generated.

Re: Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> what am I paying for? A logo? Remove the automatic part and focus just on the deliverable; whether it's made by a computer or by a human, what you get is a few concepts before you select the one you like. And then you go with a lawyer to protect your IP.

> And then you go with a lawyer to protect your IP. Which makes this way more expensive than a normal logo created by an actual artist. If I contract someone to make me a logo, I can normally safely assume there won’t be lingering IP issues after I have the deliverable.

Only if your contract specifically states that the artist will check your logo against registered trademarks for potential infringement. Usually that requires two people, an IP lawyer and a logo designer.

Re: Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker

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I expected the app to somehow "understand" the brand name and that the meaning(s) would influence suggestions. I don't think that's happening, or at least it's very basic. I tried "Cloudera" and "Red Badger" and got very similar suggestions none of which had to do with the name at hand.

Re: Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker

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post #31
post #10

the pricing seems high for this service. $30 for a computer generated logo. $990 for a professionally designed logo. I'm pretty sure you can get a computer generated logo for free from a variety of services, and professional logos for much less than $990. The UX on the site isn't great, so I wouldn't really pay for a premium service.

It appears that there's a Black Friday deal right now to get the $900 VIP Package (professionally designed, etc) for $5.80. Or it's an error.

Seems like it was a bug or glitch, price is now back to $990 and no Black Friday mention.

Re: Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker

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post #10

the pricing seems high for this service. $30 for a computer generated logo. $990 for a professionally designed logo. I'm pretty sure you can get a computer generated logo for free from a variety of services, and professional logos for much less than $990. The UX on the site isn't great, so I wouldn't really pay for a premium service.

>professional logos for much less than $990.

What's your point? You can also get professional logos for $100,000. Logofox has valued their professional design at $990, it's subjective whether you think that is high or low.

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