Show HN: Free Company Logo API • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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Post by repler » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 7:30 PM UTC

And when you use it, they get to collect all of the data about your visitors.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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Post by nategraves » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 7:37 PM UTC

aylons wrote: post #67

Hovertruck wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not quite free, but this does exist at a pretty low price point: https://www.tailorbrands.com/

Very interesting indeed. Is there any portfolio, even for fake brands, so I can see the range of styles their logos may have?

Hey there. I work for Tailor. We don't have currently have a portfolio, but we are working on something akin to this. For anyone interested, you can email me at nate@tailorbrands.com, and I'll send a coupon code your way so you can give it a try.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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Post by ereckers » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 7:39 PM UTC

msoad wrote: post #5

I know Glassdoor is using Facebook as a source of their company logos

I'd like to see that open sourced. A lot of the projects I'm involved in could use it.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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Post by larrybud » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 7:55 PM UTC

Had to do it: https://logo.clearbit.com/piedpiper.com

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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Post by sordidfellow » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 7:57 PM UTC

Yet another (hilarious?) false match: https://logo.clearbit.com/exxon.com

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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Post by manigandham » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 7:59 PM UTC

smprk wrote: post #47

Instead of relying on FB, Twitter, Company's site for the logo, wouldn't it be better to create a "Company Logo Service" with an API, with the below features - 0. Change at one place, make it work everywhere. (consistent branding across the wild web). 1. Upload your company logo here with us. 2. Multiple versions. 3. Multiple sizes. 4. Control and Connect various sizes, versions with your various social accounts, new…

Wouldn't pay money for this. Easier to just have a list of sites where we maintain profiles since we still have to manage that various bits of other information about the company, beyond just the logo (which is probably the thing that changes the least).

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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Post by lips » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 8:01 PM UTC

mikepurvis wrote: post #25

chinathrow wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fetch the domain at /, look for favicon/apple-touch-icon/OpenGraph image, fetch the image, store and serve.

Looks like it has twitter as a secondary source, eg. https://logo.clearbit.com/spacex.com https://twitter.com/spacex Maybe other fallbacks, too?

Also seems like some fairly primitive analysis would identify this as a suspect item, at least enough to be shunted off to some sort of triage. Logos, by and large, will have distinctly different data than images.

That, and it also doesn't match their favicon.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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Post by shedletsky » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 8:06 PM UTC

repler wrote: post #71

And when you use it, they get to collect all of the data about your visitors.

This guy knows what is up.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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Post by ryanSrich » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 8:15 PM UTC

lowglow wrote: post #35

I honestly thought this was going to generate a free logo and got really excited for some unknown reason? I guess I was wondering how it all worked, then I clicked through and it made way more sense. That was a wild ride!

I thought the same thing but as a designer I had the opposite reaction. I was prepared to be offended.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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Post by mukgupta » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 8:17 PM UTC

I noticed that you are returning the company name in the title. https://logo.clearbit.com/fb.com .Is that intentional? Asking this because you provide a Company API too which is paid.