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Hey guys - Dawson here (founder) let me know if you have any questions about Logojoy / the story.
Hey Dawson, small world! I worked at RHINO for a bit last year. Were you working on this at that time and what was the time commitment to it back then? You mention two and a half months but given the freelancing I’m guessing it wasn’t full-time effort?
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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.
Yes, this is the point at which I exited also. I believe you'll be losing a lot of people at this point. You should make it possible to close this dialog and store a session cookie so people can come back.
Hey guys - Dawson here (founder) let me know if you have any questions about Logojoy / the story.
Hey guys - Dawson here (founder) let me know if you have any questions about Logojoy / the story.
Dawson, how did you decide what were the simplest things that needed to be done first?
1. Amazing fonts. This is the low-hanging fruit, and the core of every logo. Some logos are just nice fonts :P
2. Brainstorming and idea exploration. Logojoy is cool because it gets you thinking, and makes it a joy (haha) to explore different fonts, symbols, colors, etc.
3. Presentation. If you look at how the top agencies present logos to clients, it's always with a ton of whitespace, real-life mockups, etc.
I did all the work and then got a registration popup that prevented me from seeing what I was registering for :(
The UX isn't as good and the app isn't as full-fledged.
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> 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.
Note: I have some hobby projects with minimal progress, where I ignore the golden rule and try new stuff all the time :)
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.
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 h…
I did a test and the first result it gave me was just my company name in the Disney font.
If I could offer feedback about the pricing structure -- I think if I didn't know (from the article) that it's free to create unlimited logos, I wouldn't have figured that out by looking at your pricing section. And I know it says "It's free to build unlimited logos. Only pay when you want to download" right there in plain text under the headline, but my eyes skipped over that part. I expected clickable price boxes t…