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Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Hey guys - Dawson here (founder) let me know if you have any questions about Logojoy / the story.

Hey, awesome work! Your story is inspiring :)

Having trouble accessing the site though: "logojoy.com" does not work, but "www.logojoy.com" does. Unfortunately Indiehackers links to the one without the "www". Just wanted to let you know.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Hey guys - Dawson here (founder) let me know if you have any questions about Logojoy / the story.

hey Dawson - would love if you could go into more technical depth on how things work. Cool product!

Absolutely. I talk a lot about the tech in the IH article, but I'll re-iterate here with as little jargon as possible, focusing on the machine learning part, as I assume that's what you're more interested in.

The logo generating algorithm is still in its infancy, so right now it's mostly acting as an idea source for most users.

So our logos are just combinations of ingredients — fonts, colors, layouts, symbols, etc. Logojoy uses machine learning specifically to learn which ingredients go better together.

It starts with tracking basically everything our users do. We track things like: the inspiration they selected, the logos they favorite, the changes they make to logos (e.g. changing the font), the time spent looking at certain logos, the commonalities between all of their favorited logos, the logos they purchase, and more. We currently track about 80 types of actions.

Every day, the learning algorithm reads all these actions and weights each one by how many times it occurred. Because of the structured way it reads actions, it's able to define rules based on "heavy" actions.

For example, an action might be defined as "user changed font weight from 100 (light) to 600 (bold)". This action object includes the number of times it occurred, every other preceding action, and all of the logo's ingredients. In this case, let's say the algorithm concluded that every time this happened, the color of the logo was classified as "light". The algorithm would presumably define a rule that says "if the color of the logo is light, do not use a light font weight".

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Hey guys - Dawson here (founder) let me know if you have any questions about Logojoy / the story.

just tried it and it's stuck at only two logos but it says it's generating more logos :/ would love to know if there's free alternatives like logojoy, I think it's nifty

Click into a logo, then click back and it should work. Gets stuck sometimes :(

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post #8

Hey guys - Dawson here (founder) let me know if you have any questions about Logojoy / the story.

Hi Dawson - What is your background? What's your team consist of?

It's just me right now! Hoping to bring on a developer and someone to help out marketing it ASAP.

I've been a designer for about 12 years (doing lots of logos) and developing for about 8 years.

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Hey guys - Dawson here (founder) let me know if you have any questions about Logojoy / the story.

FYI, I thought I'd give it a try today, but it appears to be broken (syntax error in the console).

Might be a little finicky due to all the HN traffic, please try again, I promise it will work eventually.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Really impressive!

I feel there's still so many ideas to make a business around if you base it on ML/AI. Being early here could potentially net a huge passive income. Personally I have an idea in mind, and I'm still learning ML slowly on the side. In my eyes this is the true way to independence from "the system" for people who put in enough effort and who have enough knowledge.

Why do we not see more of this yet? Is the combination of people who know machine learning, and people who are entrepeneurs so narrow?

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Hey guys - Dawson here (founder) let me know if you have any questions about Logojoy / the story.

Is it mostly a solo effort?

I am releasing my first larger project soon - any tips in terms of release, first places to post to spread the word etc? Also top X things you would have done differently?

Also one step that did not quite work for me was picking the icons (it said pick 3 icons you like or something). There were three cutouts and words flying by, but no images and there were no selections available. Here is my browser version: Version 55.0.2883.44 Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit)

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