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> I've been a designer for 12 years or so... I would get frustrated designing logos for small businesses because (a) it was so time-consuming to create 30 mockups, (b) it would take weeks to do those small back-and-forths, and (c) the logo would end up being so simple that I felt like that entire process was a waste... As soon as I had the idea ... I started working on it. I think this is my favorite part of the stor…
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At work, we've been using a new JS framework paired with server-less infrastructure for the past 9 months. It's barely production stable, so it's been painful, but hey look at our fancy new framework. When I started a new side project, I wanted to get an MVP out as quickly as possible. I opted for PHP/MySQL, and development time felt like lightning. It was so refreshing. I plan on rebuilding the code base, now that t…
I have a similar story I recently set out to build a SaaS product and wanted to use/learn elixir. I enjoyed using elixir but a lot of the fairly complex things I wanted to do requires quite a bit of learning and custom solutions. I wound up scraping that version after 2 months and rewriting it in Ruby/Rails in about a week. And adding new features.
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Is that 25k USD? :)
Somali Shillings
Hey guys - Dawson here (founder) let me know if you have any questions about Logojoy / the story.
You talk about the ML being reinforced over time by user actions so you must have suffered from the 'cold start' problem in the beginning. How did you address this? Did you initialize it with your own expert curated rules/weightings? Something else? Have you done any automated mining of the elements in existing "good" company logos (e.g. Nike, AirBnB, etc.). I could see doing something manual too like Music Genome Pr…
I would love to analyze 'good' logos. I would imagine it's realllllyyy hard to analyze actual pixels. We just analyze actions and pre-created objects (ie. a font choice).
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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.…
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Go back to your mom's basement. He built an actual company with actual nice revenue.
No need for the insult, regardless of what you're replying to, particularly when you're implying the parent comment is uncalled for.
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I had to hit enter and wait...and wait...and wait
Well, if it doesn't find any icons it will not change anything on the screen. :)