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Ask HN: Where do you buy logos for your MVP?

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Re: Ask HN: Where do you buy logos for your MVP?

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Post by Lionga »

marioluigi wrote: post #4
onion2k wrote: post #2

"looks good enough" for your MVP is not bothering with a logo and just getting the damn thing out there in front of people. Seriously, at this stage the logo is wholly unimportant - smashing down every barrier to feedback is critical. Just move forward without a logo and stop wasting time.

With my design skills the best I can come up with is a text logo in Gimp which looks really really bad. I've seen a lot of sites that show up with such a logo and it does not look good. Maybe to the technical HN crowd a logo doesn't matter, but a lot of people would be put off with a bad looking logo and that would definitely affect feedback and validation.

Just do not add any logo at all. You imagine problems that are no problems at all.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you buy logos for your MVP?

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Post by izolate »

I design my own. As for recommendations, I'd first like to request you avoid sites like Fiverr because it devaluates design work.

Forums/reddit are your best bet. Try /r/forhire, or your nearest forum that has a buy/sell board. Frequently tech boards do; I used to design logos for $50-100 on neowin.net. You can give their graphic exchange board a shot if you like.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you buy logos for your MVP?

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Post by wikwocket »

dirktheman wrote: post #12

For $100 you can hire 20 designers from fiverr.com to make you a logo. I'm sure one of them will come up with something useful.

Fiverr is fun for this. Don't expect brilliant work, or even anything that looks as good as the samples posted, but you can get a ton done for cheap to at least inspire some ideas or use as a placeholder.
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