This is really cool. I'm bad at making anything look good, so the more things like this the better. I noticed you had Google Slides support (presumably for making themes based on the generated brand kit). Any chance of that coming to PowerPoint too? Making PowerPoint themes by hand is the worst, so anything to alleviate that would be welcome.
Launch HN: Parade (YC S20) – Launch your company without hiring a designer
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#22very cool! what can you disclose about plans for pricing model/revenue? first thing i look for in any startup that I'm about to try/evangelize. i see that "there's no subscription" in the FAQ - so you're like an asset marketplace? suggestion - dont make me signup just to try you out - see if you can bring out at least part of your process from behind your login wall.
Creating a brand and getting a style guide is free. We charge in the hundreds-of-dollars range for the agency side of our business.
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#23I like this a lot, I went through it and generated some assets. I ran into a couple of issues though: - I don't trust myself picking colors, fonts, etc, and I'm worried that when I go to buy a UI template or whatever my terrible decision for colors won't be "fixed". I'd much rather pay you to go through this with me based on my inputs and trust your expertise. - For typography, do people really use custom typography?…
It's funny - we've heard the "I don't trust myself" sentiment often. We want to make you believe that your choices are great (and, most of the time, they are). We've thought about offering to have a designer take a glance at what you've chosen, but don't yet feel confident that it would solve the problem.
And great point! We don't yet have a dark mode setting, but it's something we want to build.
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#27I get that this is more about branding than product design. But, I'd like to point out that if you are making a product, someone is doing the design for that product, whether they realize it or not.
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#29I really struggle with design, so one of the main challenges I have launching any product is the UI. But I've been promised these things in the past, and wasted money on them. 99 Designs, Freelancer, ThemeForest (including asking the theme developer for customisations). I've tried them all, and they've never worked. So I approach this fairly sceptically. But I'd love to see it work. Usually the biggest problem is not…
Yeah, UI design is tricky. We haven't solved that yet, but would love to in the long run.
Just having a few off-the-rack workflows that are easy to play with would be helpful.
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#30Looks very interesting, and definitely solves a problem. I wish there was a way to preview some sample designs without having to sign up – NewGlue from Stockholm does this quite well, I think: https://newglue.com