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Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by dawsonwhitfield »

pimlottc wrote: post #62

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 h…

Thanks for the feedback, really really appreciate it. I've taken notes!

* slow-loading/blank logos is due to HN traffic * reloading the page won't lose your favorites if you have signed up.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by evincarofautumn »

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.

When I’ve seen people set out to learn something and build something, they tend to accomplish neither—but if they focus on just one of those, the other is often a happy side effect.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by redmaverick »

evincarofautumn wrote: post #72
elmigranto wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

When I’ve seen people set out to learn something and build something, they tend to accomplish neither—but if they focus on just one of those, the other is often a happy side effect.

But often, you only learn something by building something.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by ProAm »

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.

Spot on, execution means everything.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by bdcravens »

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.

Not so much "bad engineering going far" as much as "engineering is less important than you think it is" unless you're a Tesla or Uber.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by gridspy »

dionys wrote: post #20
dawsonwhitfield wrote: post #2

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…

You are expected to enter text in the text-box above where the text flies by.

As a usability feature, I believe that it should auto-type suggestions (which fly by) in the box when you click on them.

It doesn't help that the text box is white (#FFF) and the background is very light grey (something like #DDD). Hard to see the box.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by giarc »

callmeed wrote: post #50

Its refreshing to see a startup doing well and not feeling the need to force a subscription on people. I get that SaaS can be a good business model (great, even). On the other hand, I think subscription fatigue is real and you should think hard about your pricing. Dawson is making $15K/month on ONE TIME fees–and fees that are lower than a lot of monthly SaaS plans. I want to see more of this.

It's hard to see a subscription model for logo designs though. It's not like you need a new logo each month.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by ChicagoBoy11 »

Just a quick feedback:

I tried making a logo that used the character ó, and it seemed that some logos rendered that character correctly, but others omitted it. So the word móbile in some logos would display correctly but in others it would show up as mbile.

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