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Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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If you're still reading this: could you please allow + in the e-mail address? I understand why you want me to sign up, but I have no idea how much e-mail you're going to decide to send me, and sending it to a plus-address allows me to filter it on my terms. There's really no reason not to allow the + sign, unless you're going to do something nefarious with my e-mail address and you don't want me to know it was you.

How would plus-addressing prevent them doing something nefarious? I would think that if they're selling it, they could strip out anything post-plus in the process easily.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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I wonder how this compares to Fiverr [1], which actually has human-power behind it, and lets you create a logo for only a few bucks. [1] https://www.fiverr.com/categories/graphics-design/creative-l...

In that case (based on minimum wage in the US), either you're getting five dollars worth of quality, which is probably even less than this because this process allows extremely fast revisions, or the person doing it is getting massively underpaid. Or they live somewhere that cost-of-living and a typical wage are low enough that $5 for the work makes sense. Or they're using an automated system with an even lower cost-per-unit, which probably overlaps with the first possibility.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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This was my fault. I tell companies not to submit for an interview unless they're at least a few months old, otherwise they won't have much to say. Because of that + Dawson's reported $15k/mo figure + the fact that Logojoy's story is inherently interesting, I blindly assumed the business was started earlier in the year than it was. Go figure that the interview in which this happens is also the one that gets to the to…

I can't speak for the mods, but I for one am in favour of highlighting the revenue numbers, provided they're accurate. And on a meta-point, I appreciate the effort, honesty and transparency you put into IndieHackers, it's a great resource for me.

It's little more complex than just "highlighting the numbers"; in my opinion, there really needs to be a definition of what is being counted and how that's universal within Indie Hackers presentation of startups.

For example, three identical startups using different accounting methods (cash vs accrual), time periods, etc. would have at face value potential vastly different numbers, though the reality is they are identical in every way.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Nonsense on stilts. Extrapolating $3500 in your first week of media-driven traffic into a $15k/mo run rate is ridiculous. Calling it "AI-powered" is a whopper too.

Extrapolation aside, making decisions automatically based off of incoming data points _is_ AI. If the interview is to be believed, almost anything you consider "AI-powered" is within one degree of what is happening here. At least on a conceptual level. AI doesn't need to be magic, it just needs to be making decisions :)

This is great news! I'm an expert in AI and I didn't even realize it :-)

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Yeah, the ML is still in it's infancy, so we're almost in that cold-start right now. To address that, I built in some more randomness into the algorithm so the initial logo designs can just get the user thinking and then we can get a better sense of their taste as they favorite logos. Without that randomness, the algorithm tries and fails horribly at creating logos. I would love to analyze 'good' logos. I would imagi…

Analyzing pixels is something ML has gotten much better in the near history :) Even if you have a very simple recommendation engine running behind the scenes, you can throw in some convolutions to utilize your data to create a feature space just like word2vec, which would give you great power to generalize. Even putting in pre-trained networks like VGG16 (instead of training one from scratch) could give you a great h…

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Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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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.

Ohh, thanks that was it :). I thought it had something to do with my browser...

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Totally read it as 'AI-powered lego creator' and became terribly confused for a few seconds. But still, someone should create one of those.

> 'AI-powered lego creator' AI-Powered Lego creator would be pretty awesome. Make custom lego sets based on various real life things you pick.

Well, why not? With modern 3d printers this is definitely possible. Oh, some will be veeeerry funky looking, for sure (not from printing process; from design), but that might just be more entertaining

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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As a graphic designer, I implore you to PLEASE develop that good banner ad creation AI product. There are few things and mind numbing as creating 15 variations of the same banner ad over and over and over... My manager and I would both rather have me working on something else.

Have you seen https://www.makethunder.com/ , thefalcon? I've not used it, but it looks like it might help. Here's a demo video: https://vimeo.com/163751319 (warning: loud surf-rock soundtrack).

I had not seen it, thank you very much.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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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.

Also, making a logo is a one-time service. What value can you provide in the month after the logo is done?

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Really impressive! I feel there's still so many ideas to make a business around if you base it on ML/AI. Being early here could potentially net a huge passive income. Personally I have an idea in mind, and I'm still learning ML slowly on the side. In my eyes this is the true way to independence from "the system" for people who put in enough effort and who have enough knowledge. Why do we not see more of this yet? Is…

One thing is the intimidation factor. 3 months ago, I had 0% confidence that I could do anything that even touched ML. I'm still very new to the game, but once I started learning about it, it became much more approachable.

Where is the best place to start?
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