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Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by shuzchen »

dawsonwhitfield wrote: post #2

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

Have you looked into whether this is legit on legal usage? You appear to be using noun project icons in these logos, and afaik most logos on the noun project are creative commons with attribution (and I confirmed by selecting a few logos with icons which matched this license on the noun project site).

It doesn't appear that you provide any attribution at all to the icon creators wherever you display the icon, and I have no idea what license you deliver to the end user (I haven't went through purchasing a logo - knowing that you're just sticking some text with a noun-project icon doesn't strike me as worth it, honestly). Are you in the clear to be displaying these icons with no attribution, and are the users that buy your icons clear to be putting it on websites and business cards without attribution?

I haven't even looked into whether your font usage is appropriate, can you clarify that as well?

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by pimlottc »

Very impressing, hits the sweet spot for projects that need a logo but don't have a big budget. A few comments:

* I skipped picking symbols and it generated a logo with a monogram. I wanted to get rid of this so I looked in the Symbol menu and was frustrated not to find it. I eventually found it in "Layout" but that's not the first place I thought to look.

* There's a lot greyed text used on controls, which is both hard to read and makes it look like the controls are disabled. e.g. horizontal scroll buttons, uppercase/lowercase toggle, text input boxes

* Logos on the preview page load slowly/inconsistently at times, leaving the sample images blank. Perhaps use loading indicators or don't show backgrounds until logo is ready.

* reloading the page loses your work (oops)

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by cr0sh »

gxs wrote: post #34
nilved wrote: post #29

Their website is broken because of an HTML syntax error. Cases like this remind me that success is often "right place, right time." Notch is another good example of bad engineering going far.

This is an especially cynical and petty comment, and that's coming from someone who isn't exactly a glass is half full type of person. As someone who's launched several ventures, this solves a big pain point and it is very apparent that a lot of thought went into putting this together. There is room for improvement, sure, but to dismiss it so casually or attribute its success to dumb luck because of a syntax error re…

Gotta agree with ya. There's been times I've wanted a logo or something (mainly for just playing with an idea), and I really stink at artwork. Sometimes I can get something passable out of inkscape - but it is rare.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by samstave »

Some feedback:

I love the UX/UI - but I cant tell it where to put the color/font selections and it only previews with "COMPANY NAME" instead of actually updating with the company name and slogan that you asked me for in the beginning on the selection process...

So - I don't know if I like the selection based on that because I wanted the reverse of what it offered (I wanted orange letters with grey background - but it only gives me orange bkgd with grey letters...

I would also like a bit better control over the location of the icon.

The "saved logo" update pop-up is confusing as when I go back to logo - it doesn't always hold the design I selected...

Otherwise this is impressive and awesome... I'd like to use it.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by [deleted] »

old-gregg wrote: post #52
tzaman wrote: post #40

What 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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Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by dawsonwhitfield »

old-gregg wrote: post #52
tzaman wrote: post #40

What 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.

Firefox has known issues with svg

I'm sure we can get around them, but not in v1

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by ssharp »

wodenokoto wrote: post #41
dawsonwhitfield wrote: post #2

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

My back-of-the-envelope calculation says that you are losing money on adwords, unless about 50% of all sales are enterprise level, in which case adwords breaks even. 1800 visits 25% signups * 0.5% sales = 2.25 sales* for $250 spend on adwords.

He says he gets 5000 visits a day and the 25% / 0.5% stats are related to the 5000, not the 1800 from AdWords.

The AdWords visitors likely look different and sometimes it takes experimenting time and money to find an effective way to make a profit on AdWords traffic, so taking a small loss or breaking even in the short term isn't so bad. Acquiring customers has some value besides what they purchase that day as well -- word of mouth, repeat orders, etc.

I'm more worried about him thinking he can 2-4x conversion rate "within the next month"!

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by [deleted] »

elmigranto wrote: post #55
tzaman wrote: post #40

What 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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Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by meta_AU »

tzaman wrote: post #40

What 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.

There is a lot to be said for the adage: do something new or try a new tool, but never at the same time.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by bdcravens »

tzaman wrote: post #40

What 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.

Envision I believe still runs a ColdFusion backend.
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