I'm looking for a cheap logo for my MVP. I'd be more than happy to pay a professional designer for a logo, but only after I have validated my MVP. Right now, I'd like something that looks good enough but does not cost a lot. I know about 99designs where the minimum cost is $299. Are there any other websites for cheaper logos, say around the $100 mark?
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?
#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.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you buy logos for your MVP?
#3crowdspring.com is around $100 minimum IIRC
Re: Ask HN: Where do you buy logos for your MVP?
#4"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.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you buy logos for your MVP?
#5"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.
Google font the header.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you buy logos for your MVP?
#6http://graphicriver.net has a lot of decent vector images to buy for quite cheap.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you buy logos for your MVP?
#7"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.
What is a logo? It's an aide-mémoire - a convenient shortcut for users to recognise and remember your company's image. When you have a strong brand a logo can be a phenomenal tool to keep your products in the public consciousness - but at the stage you're at now, a logo is just a small picture to put in the corner of a website. That's it.
Your company cannot survive without validation, and a logo (or lack of) is not stopping you getting that.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you buy logos for your MVP?
#8Can try http://www.reddit.com/r/freedesign/ , I got some interesting submissions for my project, when I submitted a logo design brief as an experiment. In general, though, logos are not important when you are not even sure what will your project turn into.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you buy logos for your MVP?
#9For a project I just recently did, I purchased a font from www.myfonts.com and cleaned it up to the point of looking like a "good enough" custom made text logo. Path's font is on there as well: Coquette.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you buy logos for your MVP?
#10The noun project also has some decent art you could convert to a logo.