Could you go into any more depth about the ML being used?
Also, did the site break from traffic? Because I just finished picking out my things and it's been stuck on generating logos for the past 5 minutes.
Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator
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#52What struck me the most is going with the old and tried tools (PHP+MySQL). Nowadays everyone - myself included - is trying to have an excuse to try the sexiest JS framework of the day and most of us fail miserably to deliver anything useful - because of lack of experience or just reinventing the wheel altogether. Old and boring is still sometimes the best.
... yet when I tried to use it, it gave me "Firefox is not supported. Use Chrome". Feels like 2001 indeed.
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#53Hey guys - Dawson here (founder) let me know if you have any questions about Logojoy / the story.
Signup didn't work for me. I was stuck there.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, I went through the whole logo creation process and got stuck at the sign up screen. I don't mind signing up, but when I used last pass to generate a password, I got told it was too long. I only tried to generate one that was ~9 characters long. If you are checking length, might want to put the requirements on that screen
I got past the signup screen but was then presented with a scrolling list of empty logo options (testing on my iPhone 7).
I thought the same, but it turns out you need to type a word into that input box to see the logos. The words scrolling are just examples you could type.
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#55What struck me the most is going with the old and tried tools (PHP+MySQL). Nowadays everyone - myself included - is trying to have an excuse to try the sexiest JS framework of the day and most of us fail miserably to deliver anything useful - because of lack of experience or just reinventing the wheel altogether. Old and boring is still sometimes the best.
> Old and boring is still sometimes the best.
It's not so much old vs new, or cool vs boring, but rather the thing you are most experienced with. If the goal is to just build the damn thing, go with a stack you would be most productive in.
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#56Really inspiring story, great product and awesome transparency. Big Kudos for all of this.
This guy deserves VC money to make his next big company than most of the current startups we are seeing.
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#57Super beat that you need to sign up for it to view the logos it produced. Enjoy the fake email I guess.
The messaging here is a little coy - "Signup to save your progress" But I don't care about saving my progress, I'll just close this and... oh, I can't. So it's not so much, sign up to save your progress, it's sign up, period.
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#58What struck me the most is going with the old and tried tools (PHP+MySQL). Nowadays everyone - myself included - is trying to have an excuse to try the sexiest JS framework of the day and most of us fail miserably to deliver anything useful - because of lack of experience or just reinventing the wheel altogether. Old and boring is still sometimes the best.
... yet when I tried to use it, it gave me "Firefox is not supported. Use Chrome". Feels like 2001 indeed.
and yet he's making $15k a month off this project. Imagine the growth possibilities! :)
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#59What struck me the most is going with the old and tried tools (PHP+MySQL). Nowadays everyone - myself included - is trying to have an excuse to try the sexiest JS framework of the day and most of us fail miserably to deliver anything useful - because of lack of experience or just reinventing the wheel altogether. Old and boring is still sometimes the best.
... yet when I tried to use it, it gave me "Firefox is not supported. Use Chrome". Feels like 2001 indeed.
Got the same, switched to Chrome, took me a second. Worth it.
I bet this is on the roadmap.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.…
Is it just rule-based, or are these "weights" being used to train a classifier, ANN, or some kind of genetic algorithm? Nothing wrong with the former, if it works for ya - but the latter would be interesting, too!