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Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by theIV »

gspetr wrote: post #303
zekevermillion wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This tool is pretty good! (This from an inexpert small business person, with no design sense -- but still, that describes a lot of potential users.) I've been on the other side of the annoying design client experience, playing the role of annoying client. My old law partners and I asked a design firm to do an identity for us, some 7 years ago now. They spent a LOT of time with us, presented numerous concepts, and eve…

May I ask what does MOO stand for in your comment?

I think they're referring to moo.com.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by maolt »

gspetr wrote: post #303
zekevermillion wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This tool is pretty good! (This from an inexpert small business person, with no design sense -- but still, that describes a lot of potential users.) I've been on the other side of the annoying design client experience, playing the role of annoying client. My old law partners and I asked a design firm to do an identity for us, some 7 years ago now. They spent a LOT of time with us, presented numerous concepts, and eve…

May I ask what does MOO stand for in your comment?

on a guess, possibly this : https://www.moo.com/us/ (site for post, business and everything cards)

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by joakleaf »

noblethrasher wrote: post #82
tzaman wrote: post #40

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.

Programming languages and systems are basically theorems. The nice thing about theorems is that even when they're old, they're still theorems.

I don't completely agree. To follow your analogy, I don't think the languages themselves are "theorems". Rather they are notation. Some notation is shorthand. Some is quite verbose.

But in the end it is not the notation that makes or break a theorem. However, a theorem may be more or less clear depending on the notation.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by aclsid »

tzaman wrote: post #40

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.

I noticed the same thing. Was previously working on a startup using PHP/MySQL/Backbone. We just kept churning out releases out of management's ever changing specs.

After a while with the chatbot hype, in comes this external contractor, and started dismissing people left and right that either did not code in javascript or wanted to use his simplistic challenge/response chatbot (we coded a decision tree based system). In any case, at that stage the startup was failing, I ended up leaving, kept working with same cooling in my own startup and have been happy ever since.

So for me, the moral of the story is, work for somebody that is focused on the product instead of trying to win a hipster contest. First time I saw that was when .NET was in beta mode and our tech lead decided to switch everything over to an undocumented/buggy system back then.

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Post by thasaleni »

It would be nice if you keep the selected options in browser session, in case i accidentally navigate away from the site, I don't have to retype everything, and also if i favorite a logo the ability to view logos like it (or based on the choices that led to it)

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by robotnoises »

saycheese wrote: post #255
mikejarema wrote: post #238

I'm curious about how the $15k/mo figure is computed. The story reads as though Logojoy more or less launched on Producthunt, which was 7 days ago. And all posts on the blog are dated Nov 15th. Finally the domain itself seems to have been listed on HugeDomains as of Oct 8th [1]. Now maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like the revenue figure is extrapolated from a small window which includes a wave of initial t…

Feel like IndieHacker isn't requiring any proof of revenue. Does anyone know what, if any, fact checking process Indie Hackers has to verify the claims by made by a startup?

I enjoy reading Indie Hackers, but yes, the math on the monthly revenue is almost always fuzzy. I find it's best to just enjoy the content of the interview and ignore the "stats."

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by nilved »

bbcbasic wrote: post #225
nilved wrote: post #29

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.

Yes that is what is known in the trade as a bug.

There's no excuse for an HTML syntax error to get to production. That's very telling of the quality control and continuous delivery systems in place. Seemingly they deployed a change to production without even running it.

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Post by zekevermillion »

maolt wrote: post #312
gspetr wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

May I ask what does MOO stand for in your comment?

on a guess, possibly this : https://www.moo.com/us/ (site for post, business and everything cards)

Correct. Almost everyone I meet who is hanging her own shingle, or promoting a startup, uses moo.com for business cards etc.

Re: Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

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Post by dang »

mikejarema wrote: post #238

I'm curious about how the $15k/mo figure is computed. The story reads as though Logojoy more or less launched on Producthunt, which was 7 days ago. And all posts on the blog are dated Nov 15th. Finally the domain itself seems to have been listed on HugeDomains as of Oct 8th [1]. Now maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like the revenue figure is extrapolated from a small window which includes a wave of initial t…

That does seem dodgy, so we took the 15k/month bit out of the title. I guess we'll leave "AI-powered" so as not to leave it completely naked. Or should it just say "Logo Creator"?

I noticed that https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=indiehackers.com constantly uses this trick of revenue numbers in titles. That's annoying clickbait in an HN context, but on the other hand, we need more good stories about startups, entrepreneurs, and projects, and dodgy stories are the price one pays for good ones. So I think the answer here is continued community vigilance.

Usually we'd see a point like this before 11 hours had gone by, but clearly not always, so everybody: if you notice something misleading on HN, especially if it doesn't get fixed right away, please alert us at hn@ycombinator.com. We can't read all the comments but we do read and reply to emails.

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