Your set up reminds me of Plato (W16?). I would give Parade a try. PM/founder here.
Great! Glad to hear it.
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#42Congrats on the launch! Really enjoyed using an early version for a hackathon project earlier this year. Hugely valuable to automatically start from something that looks good as an engineer without having to put much thought into it.
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#43How does your ML get fed and what guarantees actual ownership of the generated output?
Re: Launch HN: Parade (YC S20) – Launch your company without hiring a designer
#44Congrats on the launch! Really enjoyed using an early version for a hackathon project earlier this year. Hugely valuable to automatically start from something that looks good as an engineer without having to put much thought into it.
Thanks! Glad Parade was valuable for you!
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#45How does your ML get fed and what guarantees actual ownership of the generated output?
RE:ML - We pay designers and non-designers to describe a wide variety of marketing assets and use their output as the training data. It's a lot of work, but we try to compensate them well.
RE:Ownership - you own what you create. We plan to have a law firm help us spell this out explicitly for us at some point in the near future.
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#46Would be great to see a preview of Display ad or Landing page before purchasing for 800$. Is it human-made or generated by software?
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#47Congrats on the launch! You are definitely addressing a real pain point here.
I would love to see this combined with a tool that helps with choosing an available domain name. I’ve used heaps of these and never found one that does it well.
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#48This is a really great idea, and I love the business model of selling future design work after you've already given your customer a bunch of value for free. I'd honestly consider having a pricing tab in the main menu that explains that - my one concern was that you'd have me fill out a whole questionnaire then try to charge me at the end before actually giving me the results.
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#49A lot of positives in the comments so far, I'll chime in with at least one negative that I'm not entirely confident with, but here goes.
A startup's branding is an early indicator of a teams commitment and skill. Even with todays Bootstrap themes I sometimes get fooled into thinking a product or service has dedication behind it when it turns out to be a smoke screen to test the market for interest. This kind of service accelerates this effect; now the ones who do commit and carry the skill and experience to pull off a successful startup will be competing against - as was already mentioned in this thread - personal projects or founders with no regard or respect for branding. What if the tables were turned: "Got a great marketing team but no interest in features or solving a real problem? Our AI can fix that for you!". Should such a team succeed?
I said I wasn't entirely confident about this, because I also realise this is what progress looks like and it is a natural step forwards in the direction we're headed. But is it a destination we want to reach?
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#50Is the unicode line separator in "Never deal with another freelancer" a cheeky jab at freelancers or did you not test across devices?
