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Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by dawsonwhitfield »

giarc wrote: post #77
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.

Funny, some designers have actually reached out asking about a subscription for their studio

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by mspeedy »

kzisme wrote: post #18
dawsonwhitfield wrote: post #2

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

Might be caused by all the traffic, but received this error when clicking "Make Your Logo" >Connection Failed: 1226

I received the same error, but refreshing the page took me straight there.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by dawsonwhitfield »

poidos wrote: post #42
dawsonwhitfield wrote: post #2

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

Hey! Just a heads-up, there's a small typo on your landing page-- It says "They chose Logojoy because it's of how easy it is to make a great logo." That "it's" is superfluous. Anyways, great product! Congrats on your success.

Oh damn. Thanks. How did I not see that. Well, can't update it right now :\

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by dawsonwhitfield »

atemerev wrote: post #81
dawsonwhitfield wrote: post #2

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

Fantastic work! Landing experience (result first, registration later), logos seen working in context (blanks, packages, etc), overall smoothness... even the support guy notifying about possible outages during to HN hug of death, everything is so perfect! You are a natural talent, and I envy you. :)

Haha thank you! It's been a lot of work. PS. how bout that support guy - what a cool dude

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by prawn »

bdcravens wrote: post #70
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.

Small correction - it's InVision. https://www.invisionapp.com/

Its co-founder and lead engineer is/was very prolific in the ColdFusion community. https://www.bennadel.com/

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by asimjalis »

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.

I would posit that it is not old vs new but the vision you have of what you are building. If he had used ClojureScript this would still be just as good. If someone uses PHP and jQuery on an uninspired vision it will not be very good.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by victor9000 »

k__ wrote: post #78

I did all the work and then got a registration popup that prevented me from seeing what I was registering for :(

Logojoy assumes that your need for a logo will outweigh the artificial roadblock that they place in the workflow. The only problem is that they've provided no carrots leading up to the roadblock, so I have no motivation to continue. I need to test the service and have confidence in its quality before I sign up for anything. Never mind that I don't actually need a logo, I'm just curating a resource for future use. So I have no innate momentum besides mild curiosity, and I bounced.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by lenjaffe »

redmaverick wrote: post #73
evincarofautumn wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

performa prototype build of a thing you've already built. You'll gain the new knowledge in context, making it even more valuable.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by nicklovescode »

dawsonwhitfield wrote: post #12
nicklovescode wrote: post #3

Earlier 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.…

thanks for your response!
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