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what's going on guys my name is dale, from creatorpro website in this video, i'm going to show you how to make a logo, for free in just five minutes by the end, of this video you'll be able to make, logos like this without any experience, necessary and there's no software needed, it's all done on your web browser and by, the way for any of my subscribers that, have been following along with us for, our move into the new space as you can, see we are still a work in progress this, is not the way the studio is going to, stay it's going to transform over the, next few videos so let's get started, step number one is to click on the very, first link in the description or you can, just go over to your web browser and, type in logo maker without the e.com, and then you can just go ahead and, cancel out of this little tutorial, so i'm going to show you how to use it, so first off a quick overview is that, you can search for any icon you want, just by clicking up here in this little, bar or you can add text and shapes over, here and change your colors over here, so now we can move on to step number two, which is to create an icon, so to do this just go up to the search, bar up here and you can type in anything, that you want now i'm going to be making, a logo for a fake men's grooming and, fashion website just to show you so what, you can do first is actually click on, this browse all logos button, and there's all different categories up, here like abstract shapes nature and so, on or you can just type in anything that, you want so for this, logo itself i'm going to be typing in, something like, bowtie, and then you've just got thousands and, thousands of different bow ties to, choose from and this is with any, category whatever it is that your, business is you're going to have almost, limitless options so i'm going to go, ahead and choose this one right here so, you just click on it and it will drop it, into your project and you can resize it, just by dragging on the corner and, pulling out, or going down, and you can move it around just by, clicking and dragging, now i'm going to make this a little bit, smaller, and we want to make this logo a bit more, unique so i'm going to go up and grab, another one so i'm just going to type in, let's say hair, and i'm just going to grab one of these, first ones right here like this one, and what i'm going to do is just move, this up, and i'm going to put text in between, right here so this is what i really, recommend doing is taking multiple icons, and combining them to make a more unique, logo if you don't like any of the ones, that come with logo maker, okay so now we can move on to step, number three which is to add your brand, name so to do this you can just go over, here and click on the little text button, and that's going to drop in some text, for you and i'm just going to type in, clean cut, that's going to be my new brand name, and you can just resize it by clicking, and dragging, or you can move it around so if you, click off, and then click back on you can drag it, around and you're going to get these, little guidelines that are going to let, you know when it's in the center and, it's going to snap, and if you don't like the stock blue, that it comes with you can just go ahead, and click on the text and then drag over, here in the color wheel all the way down, to black, now you can also change the font so if i, just go up here you've got a font, category and then a font family so the, font category you've got all different, types you could do fun and funky and get, some really crazy ones in here but to be, honest i like to stick with more simple, and modern looks they look a little bit, more professional but it's going to, depend on your brand so i'm going to go, ahead and click on simple and modern, and then i'm going to go over to the, font family and just select a new one, let's say this one, so now let's go ahead and make your, brand name a little bit more unique so, what i'm going to do is just click on, the text again, and i'm going to type in cut, by itself, and i'm just going to drag that out so, we can see it, and i'm going to make it black, and then i'm going to change the font, family to something a little bit more, bold let's say like this one, just like that and i'm going to delete, cut out of this one so i'm just going to, type clean, and then i'm just going to move it over, just a little bit, and put cut next to it, and then size it up, just like that, maybe resize this one a little bit, and there we go and now if you click and, drag a box you can drag them both around, at the same time, so i'm just going to make sure that, these are centered like that, maybe drag my hair down a little bit and, my bow tie up a little bit, and that is a pretty good looking logo, right there, and the reason i chose both of these, fonts is because cut being bold makes, the word clean look a lot more minimal, and clean, so now we can move on to step number, four which is to select your colors, so this can be done very simple so what, i'm going to do is just click on the, word cut and then go over to the color, wheel here and if you just click on this, little outside wheel you can change the, hue to anything that you want and then, you've got the saturation and lightness, in this box here so what i'm going to do, is select a blue color, maybe something like that, and then select kind of a dark, desaturated version of this blue, something like that, and that could be my company colors, right there and you can do this to the, text and the icons themselves, so now let's move on to step number five, which is to download your logo so to do, this you just go up to the little save, button up here at the top right and, click on that, and then you can see it's going to ask, you to buy this high resolution file for, 19 bucks but there is a button down here, that says no thanks download the low, resolution file and you just have to, credit logo maker you could put it, somewhere small on your website really, doesn't matter so you can go ahead and, click no thanks download the low, resolution file, and that is going to hit your downloads, right there, so now i'll just go to where that image, is in this case i just put it on my, desktop but you've got your image right, here and this is a png meaning that it's, going to have a transparent background, so you can put it on top of anything and, only the icon and the text are going to, show through, and one more quick tip is that if you, want to go back and edit your logo at, any time just go back to logo maker and, just copy this little url down here by, hitting this button right here and then, save it somewhere where you can access, it because if you type that into your, browser again you can go back at any, point and edit it, alright guys so that was how to create a, logo for free next if you'd like to, learn how to make a website just click, on this video right here or you can just, go up to your browser and type in, createaprowebsite.com, and you can learn there alright guys, thanks for watching and i will see you, on the next video

Offer HN: free logo redesign for open source projects – Part IIWas overwhelmed with the response the last time we offered this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12372118)

And had decided to work on a few projects, check out the results here: https://medium.com/@fairpixelsco/making-open-source-look-beautiful-60130f3c9456#.mnz45nvgw

Decided to do it again and help make open source look more beautiful
So here's what to do:

1. Pitch your open source project in the comments and add a URL to your website/github

2. The most upvoted project by this community, 48hours from posting this, wins the free logo design service.

3. Make sure we can contact you by having an email address on your website or your profile.
,Results: Offer HN – Free logo designs for open source projects,Would you hire me for freelance work?I'm 19 and I'm going to move out of my parent's basement in a few months and I need to start saving up for rent so I'm trying to look anywhere I can to find long-term clients or short-term work so that I can manage studying without losing all my time on doing non-freelance work.

I'm an educated and experienced graphic, web and web designer looking to do some work. I can help you with

  Identity: Logo, Branding, Style
  
  Print, Brochures, Flyers, Books, Covers,
      Business Cards, Cards, etc...
  
  Websites: Mock-ups, redesigns, front-end,
      touch ups, wordpress, custom theme,
      css3, html5, jquery, making your site responsive, ...

I'm still a student but I have a few years of experience with design and freelancing. PM me for any questions or offers.

Website: http://illyism.com

Dribbble: http://dribbble.com/illyism

If you don't like either of those, here is an Imgur album: http://imgur.com/a/gelej.
,Collection of unused logos for freeHi, I’m a logo designer and for the past couple years I have unused concepts of logos that are piling up on my hard drive and I decided to give them for free, maybe for use in personal/school projects, or a placeholder for web developer when making sites for clients etc.

By giving them free it doesn’t mean I’m talking about crappy work here. Check it out yourself. http://www.picograf.com/junk.
,Taking a Chance - Free startup ideaI wrote this up in a text file a while back, I have a bunch of other ideas, but no time and lack the experience to do many of them. So I thought I would throw one up on HN in the event someone sees some value in it.

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MDWnDec 3rd, 2010

Idea-in-a-sentence: “We are going to put the human element of life between the 0's and 1's of the cold digital music wasteland.” or “Experiences, Memories, Personal Connections, and Passion are all uniquely human. Streaming the ciphered bits of 0's and 1's of a song is uniquely digital. We want to change that.”

makes songs take on character/personality of vinyl records

songs get more 'seasoned' as you play them more

how? - analyze large sample of vinyl vs. mp3/flac

analyze variation, rate of change, identify at least 20 variables between digital and vinyl and how they change over time using as much user context as possible(does temp. affect sound? Does virtual/physical record player change not only sound when played, but also change future characteristics of audio? Etc..)

overall strategy: bring soul/personality(one advantage of vinyl) to digital(convenience of play, storage, etc..)

logo/brand ideas: representation of character/soul/personality/interactiveness in a sea of binary

overall concepts: put emotion in an emotionless medium; to humanize digital; warm(human, dynamic) the cold(digital, static)

monetization questions:nhow?nwhere is the value?n- is the value in the ability to have a (DDM)dynamic digital medium taking traits from (DAM)dynamic analog medium in vinyl, or is the value in the curation/storage/market-making services of company for the converted DDM?

would people pay for service, if so, when?n- after songs take on a warm, analog feel, or before file conversion based on expectations?

what are expectations?(quantify acceptable level of Δ(DDM/DAM))

how to create enduring value after Δ(DDM/DAM) approaches 0 acceptably?(in other words, once the song is seasoned to acceptable level, and continued use yields less and less noticeable results, how do you still generate revenue?)

- market-making?

only part of value can come from audio features, other features must be just as important in order to be a platform, not a widget.

In staying with theme of value synergy between digital(cold, mp3, flac, convenient, experiences do not follow the medium, they follow the user) and analog(warm, vinyl, record sleeve signed by artist, human connection, experiences travel with physical medium), we can further add value by storing experiences of one user and being a market maker for others to consumer that value.

- for static digital medium(mp3's, flac, etc..) now: what the user does with it, how it's played, what shows they went to, who they met, pictures of events and people, and other experiences do not follow the file, they stay with the user(not creating value)

- for dynamic digital medium we want to make: what user does with it, how many times it's played, where it's traveled, who they've met, pictures from shows and events, signatures, etc.. still stay in users memory, but also follow the filet (creating a sort of provenance > value > $$$).

metrics:n?

feature ideas:

Live Show>Hotspot>Signed Album: allow artists to set up “hotspots”(50 yard radius?) at shows that will virtually add text/drawings/photos/content controlled by artist to album cover/inside sleep/etc.. of DDM of people with the app.

Streamlined integration with mobile/tablet/big screen. Users won't be able to fully realize value of album art, signatures, pictures from shows, etc... on a small screen(mobile). This makes the multi-screen integration a very important factor. Should files be cloud based and then streamed?(easier, but limited by bandwidth and connection reliability) Or should the program use a more local approach that connects directly between devices?(harder, could run into compatibility issues and may make development more costly and delayed)

Goals:nMeet with people who would enjoy using website/appnPut a rough draft of dream team together, keep in contact with them, consult with them oftennFurther hash out idea with potential team members and others input. Create mockup videos of how it would be used(think iPhone commercials) and concept in action.nCan it work? Proof of concept (toughest goal?)nHow Much will it cost?nSecure legal counsel, find best way for company structure(start as LLC, but plan for c-corp?) Make sure a dynamic digital medium doesn't infringe on any copyright issue. Identify any foreseeable legal issues.nCreate logo/brand identitynHire teamnCreate beta website/app. Usable, but minimal upfront development costsnPitch idea to record stores, ask for feedback, input from employees. Show how website/app could increase their market share and increase their profits. Somehow get small investments from large number of record stores without giving equity. Hard, but the key may be to get their point of view on how it could help them. They may be a large future userbase and advocate, offer future discounts, exclusive rights to at least 3 points of integration into program? Something like that.nIdentify robust set of static(non changing) variables to analyze between digital audio and vinyl audionIdentify robust set of dynamic(changing) variables of vinyl and how various use affects these variables.nNormalize staticΔ(digital/vinyl) – (make audio file consistently sound like brand new vinyl)nNormalize dynamicΔ(digital/vinyl) – (make audio file consistently sound like seasoned old vinyl)nFill the gap! Connect how vinyl changes over time/use to digital, and apply in between normalized staticΔ and normalized dynamicΔ.nRelease beta to vinyl enthusiasts, audiophiles, record store employees etc.. free, but with feedback tool included.
,Launch HN: Parade (YC S20) – Launch your company without hiring a designerHey HN! We’re Alex and David, the founders of Parade (https://getparade.com). Parade uses software to guide founders through early branding decisions, including designing a basic logo, selecting fonts, selecting colors, and defining their company’s overall aesthetic.

A lot of early stage founders are incredible engineers, but lack the ability to make things look “right”. We’ve seen a bunch of our friends launch products to no reception, some of which seemed due to poor design decisions (like, making buttons hard to find or a landing page that looks like it might steal your credit card).

Two years ago, two of my closest friends started a company, raised a small round, and spent tens of thousands of dollars on their initial branding. That was a substantial percentage of their funding, and then their brand entirely changed once they learned more about their customer. After I saw them waste a ton of time and money on this, I realized that it ought to be possible to build software that could have done just as good of a job as the design agency. At the core of it, the designers asked my friends a bunch of questions about how they want their company to be perceived by customers, offered them colors and fonts and a design aesthetic that conveyed those feelings, and then created a mockup of a website that incorporated those elements. So, I decided to build software to do just that.

With Parade, we have taken a traditional brand design interview and turned it into a self-serve software product. You answer a series of questions about how you want your brand to be perceived and receive design aesthetic suggestions based on them. We use machine learning to identify design elements (such as fonts, colors, layouts, use of color, density of information, line and button styles, and visuals) that project the way you want your brand to feel, then present them to you as simple choices. To power the suggestions, we collected training data from both designers and non-designers to understand what emotional reactions these design elements evoke. Because of this technology, we are able to identify the design aesthetics that you want without having to iterate repeatedly or spend hours searching for inspiration. After you make your choices, we use the math behind design theory (such as an algorithm to expand one color into a range of colors that accounts for the difference in perceived contrast based on hue, saturation, and lightness) to flesh out your brand [0].

Right now, after onboarding, you are able to access all of your design elements in a style guide for free through the dashboard. It includes your colors and your fonts, plus a place to download your logo and icon in a few colors. You can see an example of what this looks like here: https://app.getparade.com/hackernews/style-guide or here: https://app.getparade.com/hooli/style-guide. This is similar to the output startups get from a first engagement with a designer, which helps you set up basic, consistent styling for your website and social media profiles.

At this point, we’ve helped thousands of companies create their brands, including YC-backed companies like WellPrincipled (https://www.wellprincipled.com/), Enable (https://www.enable.us/) and MeterFeeder (https://www.meterfeeder.com/).

The next step beyond style guides would be to automatically generate brand assets—things like pitch decks, landing pages, and social media posts. We're working on that. We haven't completely automated it yet, but we are able to create these assets with very rapid turnaround time. Once we get it fully automated, we plan to add subscription features that enable founders to make ready-to-use assets themselves.

In the meantime, we run an agency, serving customers using our work-in-progress software. It’s different from a traditional agency, though—while traditional agencies spend many days asking you about how you want your brand to look, seeking inspiration, and iterating based on your feedback, we are able to capture what you describe through our onboarding survey and create assets with your design elements algorithmically. We are able to deliver most designs within 48 hours, and almost all of our customers have been satisfied without any iteration. Right now, a lot of the algorithmic design work happens via an in-house Figma plugin, which we plan to move onto our platform in 2022 and open up to self-service.

Something that’s surprised us while working on this: we’ve found that our users don’t always believe that their choices are really great. Design is intimidating—you’re aware that there is some psychology of color and also some color theory rules, but aren’t exactly sure what they are. You’ve built things in the past that just didn’t look quite right—how can you be sure the choices you made on Parade are good? Oftentimes, designers will even use words to make themselves seem to know some secret you don’t. We’re trying to reassure our users by surfacing more of the science behind the suggestions we make, and to make sure we encode rules that prevent certain common mistakes.

We would love to hear your thoughts, questions, concerns, or ideas about what we’re building - or about your experiences with automating design in general. We appreciate all feedback and suggestions!

[0] See https://www.w3.org/TR/AERT/#color-contrast for math on color contrast, or https://alienryderflex.com/hsp.html for a good writeup on perceived brightness..
,Offer HN: I'll make a decal for your startup.I make vinyl decals. It's not a business - I do it for fun. It's extremely satisfying to see an idea come to life so quickly, and the labor itself is somewhat therapeutic. I genuinely enjoy the creative process involved with making vinyl decals, and I sure could use a break from these brain-busting college courses. If there could only be one community I would give back to, this would definitely be the one.

So here's my offer: You have a startup. I make decals. I will make a vinyl decal for your startup - for free. You can stick it on your office window to appear more legitimate or slap it on the back of your car for advertising. I really don't care what you do with it, as long as it is your company's logo and/or website. These decals will be 'die-cut' style, meaning there is no background or border. Here are some examples for clarification:

http://www.lorenburton.com/decals.jpg

No trademarked logos (unless you own the trademark). To keep things simple, let's do matte black or matte white only, maximum size 5'x8', and no crazy intricate designs. Single color logo/text (see examples).

Final thought: not sure how to handle shipping. Obviously there would be shipping costs incurred, but I don't feel comfortable charing HN for shipping. Any thoughts on how to handle this?

If your interested in a decal for your startup, send me an email at lorendburton (at) gmail.com, with .ai or .eps file attached. Please specify size and color.

Let's have fun with this! I'm interested to see how this idea is received, considering most 'Offer HN' threads have been in regards to services. I am not looking for any personal gain here, unless you consider having fun and bringing ideas to life to be personal gain..
,MixPanel (YC S09); my mini reviewAfter spotting the mixpanel logo at the bottom of HN I decided to give it
a spin on a reasonably serious site to see what it can do. I've got some
issues with GA that I can't seem to resolve so I figured maybe MixPanel
can replace them.

First impression is that it looks really neat and simple, but on my browser
(ff 3.01) the form fields all somehow manage to hang outside the containing
blocks.

The sign up process is very quick, but there is no email verification, which is
a bit of a pain because it could mean that people use a fake address leading
to emails dumped on unsuspecting bystanders.

After signing up you get a secret token and a skeleton piece of javascript
that you can flesh out to track variables that are important. This is mostly
a manual operation, you insert the relevant bits in strategic spots on your
site, 'instrumenting' it so MixPanel can keep track of what is happening.

The upside of this approach is that you, not they decide exactly what gets
tracked and what it is called.

Right after signing up you are offered to get some 'datapoints' if you get
someone else to sign up, that seems a bit premature, I haven't a clue what
datapoints are.

Other than the initial signup form error the design of the site is very clean
and functional, the documentation is easy to read and stuff can be found
more or less where you expect it.

The 'secret' token that gets generated for your site is not that secret
however, since it is plainly visible in every page that has the javascript
embedded in it. Maybe it should be named 'site specific' token ?

Meanwhile the tag is in place on my site now, and registering visitors
according to the live stats, time to read up on the data points.

Datapoints are mixpanels way of making a business out of this, essentially
they charge you 'per event' on your website. The whole thing revolves around
the 'funnel' concept that anybody in internet marketing is familiar with.

Garbage in at the top, and 'espresso' out at the bottom, mixpanel allows you
to track exactly what the loss percentages are at every stage of the process.

Datapoints cost money, and I think they are way overpriced.

The current pricing scheme is:

    0...10,000 points:          Free
    10,000...100,000:           $25
    100,000...500,000:          $100
    500,000...2,000,000:        $200
    2,000,000...10,000,000:     $700
 

Let me explain why I think they are overpriced: at 100,000 points for
$25 (the first 'plan' they have) for any small ad driven website that
has an ECPM < $0.25 they are costing you as much (or more!) for your tracker
as what you were making on your visitors.

And on a for-pay site that makes $20 / month per user, with a COA of $5 and
a 1:2000 conversion rate on a 1:50 new traffic vs old traffic ratio (all of
those numbers are pretty 'normal') you would again be making a net loss.

One of the sites I run that I could have tried mixpanel on gets 3,000,000
pageviews monthly, the ECPM is around $0.11, so it makes $300 /month.
It's a no-brainer because it costs less than $5 to host on a flatrate 100Mbit
leaseweb box. Using MixPanel with that site is out of the question though.

So, you'd have to be buying a very large volume of points in one go to make
it worth your while, but that means a fairly big up-front cost. $700 in
one go is essentially several months hosting cost for many sites. The
price difference between 'volume buys' and smaller buys here is
$c0.007 / hit on the largest plan, versus $c0.025 per hit on the smaller
ones. That's a 350% or so difference. For a virtual product that is
not reflecting the difference in cost to the provider, which essentially
is only the extra cost incurred by the transactions to process the
payments.

MixPanel currently uses Amazon as their payment processor, which
is a pretty good indication you don't need to worry about where your
credit card details will end up.

The real time statistics are neat, but they will also be very expensive for
MixPanel to maintain long term, and they don't seem to add much actual
value, it's more of a gimmick. A functional real-time stats tracker that is
cheap to operate is very hard to design, which is one of the reasons all the
free tracking tools are using batched updates.

Google Analytics also allows funnel analysis using the 'goal conversions', only
they do it for free and a whole lot more besides.

Meanwhile, I've set up a secondary instrumented set of pages, but for some
reason the data never showed up in the reports. I double checked the code
and the javascript error console, no idea what is going wrong there. The
'feedback forum' seems to be mostly enhancement oriented, not set up
to track problems. It is also externally hosted, which means that you leave
the site, it would be better to have a simple ticketing system (a la trac)
inside the MixPanel environment, where there is a lot more context available.
Incidentally, uservoice, the site that hosts the forum is listed as a customer
of mixpanel, but they also use analytics and quantcast.

MixPanel will probably work well if you have well defined landing pages and
are a straightforward e-commerce, but at the current pricing levels it is too
expensive for high volume low conversion websites, especially for continuous
deployment. And that's a pity because it is especially those sites that would
benefit most from a tool like this.

You could use it for targeted a/b testing though, but setting up a test
seems to be quite labour intensive and error prone.

MixPanel provides you with csv exports of the reports so you can import the
data in to your favourite spreadsheet.

On the whole I think that the concept of an analytics site that concentrates
on the funnel aspect of operating a web service has promise, but I would
like it to be significantly cheaper and easier to set up. As it is it really can't replace GA for all the other features it offers.

edit: in response to an email, COA = cost of acquisition.
,Tell HN: Steal my ideas #2A while back I submitted a thread with ideas that I had but likely would never use. It got a decent response so I'm back with more free ideas for you to steal. Again I apologize if some of these already exist. If you've got your own, why not share them below?

Idea #1) Kickstarter in a box

It seems like every day I see a new story or blog post about X new product that was funded on Kickstarter. But what do the projects that get funded have in common? Usually they tend to have high quality videos, great photos of their prototypes, good rewards, clear and effective copy, etc.

However, the people with neat projects may not know much about video production, they aren't photographers, they may not have a website for their product, they may not be great writers, may not know marketing, etc. So the idea is to have a consulting firm that would offer a full service Kickstarter package. You'd get the creator with a great product a website, a high quality video, good donor incentives, great copy, high quality photographs, help marketing etc. In exchange you could take a % of their funding if successful, just like Kickstarter does.

Idea #2) A YC/Techstars consulting firm

The basic idea is that they'd obviously be a prior team or group of individuals that participated in YC/TS who would help hopeful applicants refine their applications, prepare pitches, interview practice, investment advice, etc.

Idea #3) Freelancer deals

The basic gist is that the site would sell the services of freelance designers, developers, writers, marketers, etc, Groupon style. Say you're a good designer but you're looking for work. You normally charge $60/hr. You could offer a special to this site to do 2 hours of work for X people for $20 instead. This would probably be enough time to make a decent logo/layout for someone. Although the designer may be doing work for far below their normal rate, their portfolio would be featured to everyone visiting the site. In addition they'd have the chance of recurring work at their normal rate from anyone who bought their deal. This also gives the buyer a chance to try someone temporarily at a minimal expense before making a bigger commitment.

Idea #4) Teach me

One on one live video music/gaming/etc lessons. Education related startups seem to be a really hot market right now so maybe some of these already exist. The basic idea is that you'd pick a niche and have a site of professionals in that niche. Say musicians for example. You'd be able to pick a guitar player that you like the style of and the site would allow you to take live streaming video lessons for $X/hr. The instructor would be able to give you immediate and instant feedback, etc. You could do this for a lot of industries I'd imagine.

Idea #5) Codecademy for investing

Many people are somewhat clueless about investing and saving for retirement. This site could help teach you on a basic khan academy level about the fundamentals of investing, guide you on the right types of investments for you based on info you provide, help you sort the different packages by various investment firms, etc..
,Donating 8 hours design time to any projectI have a free day tomorrow that I would like to donate to any project. What I can do for you in 8 hours?

- Look at how your content is structured and figure out the best way to communicate your idea
- Working on the user experience and the mechanics of the idea
- Take a look at you branding (fonts, colours, logo etc)
- Make broader recommendations that might make the idea more compelling

Realistically I will be able to get one (maybe two) key pages designed. Once it's done I will deliver a PSD with all the design assets you need. If you are serious about making the UX of your idea better and are willing to implement some changes drop the URL in the comments or email me at oneintenthousand@gmail.com

Why am I doing this? Because I am also trying to get a startup rolling myself and have learned much from other people willing to donate their time. I also love design and figuring out design problems is always an interesting challenge. I will pick one project and get cracking tomorrow (Australian time). You can check out some of my previous work here: http://www.jasonstrachan.com.
,Show HN: one2many.org, our Startup Weekend projectI'm currently participating in Philadelphia Startup Weekend. I successfully pitched my idea for a not for profit and we're currently hacking away on making it a reality.

We are one2many.org, we foster a culture that celebrates giving & helping and that inspires people to be generous & compassionate to one another. People donate used goods to us - items like old iPhones, iPods, routers, trumpets, bunk beds, etc. - and we then give these items away to people for free, in exchange for their volunteer service participation at local organizations (Habitat for Humanity, local soup kitchens, after school reading programs and the Special Olympics).

I've been doing this by myself for the past year and have successfully created over 250 hours worth of service for local organizations with only a handful of donated items. One participant messaged me a week after doing his service to let me know that he was so inspired by the project that he started making egg salad sandwiches for the homeless guys around his building. Pretty awesome!

I plan on initially running this like a bootstrapped startup so we don't need tons of funding. We do however need donated goods and we would like to give donors the additional benefit of a tax write off (which is why we want to become a 501c3). Unfortunately, the 501c3 application process is rather lengthy and we are looking for a fiscal sponsorship from an existing 501c3 so that we can start accepting donated goods right away.

Assistance we're looking for:

design - logo, web, print

developer - front end specifically

501c3 - any support or feedback you have! (fiscal sponsorship would rock!)

donations - used items in good, working condition (especially if you live in Philly!)

Any other support you can offer - get in touch @covercash on twitter or covercash@me.com.
,Ramaze needs YOUTL;DR sissies: We need a designer for http://ramaze.net/, send an Email to info@yorickpeterse.com if you're too damn lazy to read this post.

Ramaze is a Ruby framework that while generally underrated has a lot of potential. Compared to other Ruby frameworks it's probably the most Ruby-like framework as it does not enforce a new way of thinking and developing applications, instead it adds a lot of functionality to Rack and Ruby to make it easier to develop MVC based applications (although you don't have to stick to the MVC pattern).

When looking at other frameworks, regardless of their language, I personally think Ramaze is the most flexible one out there. However, there is one big problem: we're not widely know. This issue is caused by multiple things but the two most important ones are relatively bad documentation and a website that isn't very informative when it comes to helping newcomers. While the documentation is something we've been discussing for quite some time and actually are working on it the website is something we need to let somebody else do. Not because we don't want to do it ourselves but because we're developers and not designers. So far I and several other Ramaze members (manveru, Pistos, etc) have had a few chat sessions and we agreed that the following has to be done regarding the website (ramaze.net)

* The homepage should show a basic example about how to use Ramaze, a good example would be the website of Sinatra (sinatrarb.com)

* A blog to keep people up to date with the latest Ramaze news

* A showcase of Ramaze applications

* A userguide, either in the form of a wiki or something else. Currently there's book.ramaze.net but it's unorganized and out of date

Based on these ideas I made a few rough sketches as well as an initial design, which can be seen here: http://cl.ly/5aKi
While the other Ramaze members liked the design I'm not that fond of it myself and I'd rather spend my time coding and improving the actual
code rather than making a website :)

What we're looking for is a good designer who's willing to contribute to an open source project by designing the new website for Ramaze. I'm going to be honest with you, there's a good chance you won't earn a penny from it but keep this in mind: you're probably using open source software (Chromium, Firefox, etc) as well so you'd be a big hypocrite and a dick to say 'Meh, open source is for fags'. Other than that I might be willing to pay money for it based on the results but that's something we'll discuss once there's a better idea of how the design will look, how much time it will take and so on.

What we're not looking for are 12 year old entrepreneurs who think that using a few gradients equals proper design. This may sound rude but I'm going to say it up front to prevent any misunderstandings. Now don't get me wrong, if you're young like me (I'm only 18 actually) this doesn't mean you're not welcome it's just that in general people below a certain age (usually 18-20) don't have enough real-life experience to know how to handle clients. I might have experience in coding but since I've only been doing it for a few years (5 or so) and only about a year on a professional basis I still don't fully get how to handle clients and such. To cut a long story short, here's the type of designer we're looking for:

* Decent amount of experience, knowledge of the web is a big plus

* Understanding of how open source projects work

* Proper knowledge of color theories, we don't need pink + green

* Well organized, I'm not going to wait 2 months for the design so don't bother replying if you feel that it's more important to teabag people in Halo than to finish that design you were supposed to finish 2 weeks ago

Do note that you don't have to slice the design into HTML as we'll handle this ourselves, as rude as it may sound designers tend to have very limited knowledge of how to organize your HTML and CSS in a proper way. We're just looking for somebody to create the actual design.

In order to make your life easier here are some extra details about Ramaze:

* The color scheme is red and gray mainly but other colors are welcome as long as they mix with the logo (https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/efb21e9eb7a8ced4c808086b77cd86d0?s=140)

* Ramaze is an agnostic framework, this means you can use pretty much anything the way you want it without breaking things

* The GitHub account is located here: https://github.com/ramaze

* Ramaze is mostly a community driven framework, while there are a few 'core' contributors a lot of the code has been added by 'regulars'

If there's anything else you need feel free to ask. I would prefer it if you would reply in this thread if you're interested rather than Emailing me, this makes it easier for others to see who's interested plus it's easier for me to share everything with the other Ramaze guys. If you insist on Emailing me my address is info@yorickpeterse.com..
,Ask HN: Launching a side-projectThis is a SaaS webapp targeting devops.

1. When to launch: too soon or too late?

Rather launch 'embarrassingly early' than later to benefit from early feedback. It has been used at my day job and does make some tasks faster and easier. I made basic changes so that it can run multi-tenant.

2. Pricing

Going to use an open-source core. The back-end and front-end will both be AGPL open-source from the start. Client access libraries to the API will be MIT licenced. The 'core' is that which is needed to run the app standalone in one's own environment, similar to what is run at my day job. Other non-core changes are infra-related e.g. supporting more scalable dbs.

Having the core open source also makes any service provider (including myself) use value-add-based pricing. I'm planning on $5, $29, $150 per month for Hobby, Startup, and Business tiers which have different limits and all with a free trial. Using a PayPal checkout button which seems to support the free trial bit.

3. Marketing

Being a side-project I'm not spending on marketing, just on operating the platform. The main places I hope to get traffic from are HN and Product Hunt. Also thought I'd give out some free accounts (can I call it Beta if I'm charging others?).

Other ideas are to write dev blog posts and possibly tech talks on software development with the related product plug. I don't have any significant online presence (Twitter etc).

Materials I have so far:

  a. the webapp (static served from Netlify+CloudFlare)
  b. single landing page
     (unspalsh bg, screenshot, features, pricing and checkout)
  c. API documentation
  d. try it playground/sandbox
     (like cURL requests in web forms)
  e. favicon (i.e. low quality logo)
  f. an .io domain name

So there's where I'm at, any pitfalls or suggestions for making a better first impression? Any comments much appreciated..
,Fighting Misinformation on the WebHN (and /.) fam, we have a bumpy road of misinformation and web prosperity, all tangled together at the moment. My question is pretty simple, and I'm praying stronger algorithmic minds and nimbler typing keys shall uptake the challenge:
Can we make a service that combats misinformation on the web?

Before people bring up examples of similar services, I'm wondering if we can do something that is immediate [proactive, not reactive] and likely to be accepted by major players as something that A) does not inhibit freedom of speech and B) still ensures that people are not misinformed simply because money can buy wallspace/canvas time.

If not some sort of site/extension/clever logo with numerical "trustiness" ... are there some options out there that I'm not considering?

I love freedom of speech and press, but at the end of the day I want information of the highest quality. How can we ensure we all get high quality info, and can we help that process by making some sort of service that detects and highlights bullshit as it is?.
,Ask HN: What's the best Language/IDE to teach a group of kids programming?What's the best language/IDE to use for teaching kids programming in an after-school group setting?

I'm looking for a programming language/development environment that has the following characteristics:

- Runs on Windows
- Includes an IDE
- Free
- Easy to install
- Really easy to do graphics programming without using advanced language features.
- Well documented

To elaborate on the purpose:

I am starting an after-school program to teach kids how to program. The end product of the course will be a simple but fun computer game that the kids can take home and run on their home computers if they wish. The schools computers run Windows, and I will be using their computers.
The course will be targeted towards students in the gifted program at a public school. The students will be 10-13 years old.

I will not consider visual-only programming languages such as Scratch or Alice for this group. If, at a later time, I do a class for younger children I will consider these programs.

This is a non-graded, purely optional after-school class. It is important that the course be fun as well as educational. That is why the focus will be on making a video game.
I want kids to learn how to search reference documentation for an answer to their questions, so a well documented language/api is a must.

I have ruled out the following:

- Scratch/Alice (too visual, perhaps useful for a younger audience)
- LOGO (Not general-purpose enough, again, perhaps useful for a younger audience)
- Lego Mindstorms (too expensive)
- C/C++/Java/C# (too advanced – I would consider these for a 2nd language)
- QBasic (I just wanted to mention this because I taught myself QBasic as a kid. It's obsolete now though)

The following are viable options that I have considered:

- Microsoft Small Basic (I'm leaning towards this)
- Python+pygame (I'm thinking this may be too complicated to start with though, also a
setup headache for kids... what do you think?)
- Hackety Hack (anyone have experience teaching with this?)
- Squeak (seems more complicated than I would like)
- Visual Basic (6.0 is obsolete, but VB.NET is possibly viable, but is the complexity worth it compared to MS Small Basic?)
- Just Basic (not as “polished” as small basic)

I am a Software Engineer, and will be working with an experienced teacher to make this after-school program work. Any other advice would be greatly appreciated!.
,WhiteLabel – Branded Games for BusinessesSuper excited to share with the community, WhiteLabel - Branded Games for Businesses.

What is it?

A service to customize games with brand references (i.e. logo, products) placed inside. Usually super simple, easy to play casual games.

Why?

Ads are becoming boring. An average person encounters between 6,000 to 10,000 ads every single day.

On top of that, privacy concerns are rising. The deprecation of third-party tracking is near.

Businesses need to stay connected with their customer base more creatively and memorably.

With over 1.8 billion gamers worldwide, branded games are an excellent solution to engage with consumers in an interactive manner.

For casual online games, an average session hovers at 16.8 minutes.

Imagine throwing a challenge to your audience with a game, i.e. share their best score for an X% discount.

Players will subconsciously remember your brand for a long time.

A successful campaign will make your brand stand out from the competition.

With the launch of WhiteLabel, we look forward to making branded games accessible for businesses of all sizes.

Pricing

Free options are available.

Standard package @ US$149.

Enjoy a flat 20% discount with coupon HN20.

Gamified marketing campaigns.
120+ templates.
72-hours delivery.
Maximize ROI.
Offer Landing Page

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback.

- Ash.
,Launch HN: Paigo (YC S22) – Measure and bill SaaS customers based on usageHey HN! Daniel here, I’m a software engineer and hobbyist hacker. I’m joined by my cofounder Matt. We’re building Paigo (https://paigo.tech). We make it easy for SaaS businesses to bill customers based on usage.

To get your hands dirty a bit we have a stateless and signupless demo you can try out: https://hn.paigo.tech/ and a video of me walking through the system in a bit more detail: https://youtu.be/T6J1Yh8GhdU.

The idea of our platform is fairly straightforward: You give us read-only access to your SaaS backend and based on tenant metadata for your infrastructure, we measure, persist, and aggregate SaaS tenant usage data to give a clear picture of per-client usage. We can measure metrics like API requests, Compute time, Data Storage, Transaction Volumes and many more. Some common scenarios would be: an ML platform could use Paigo to track processed input files for customers, a Data platform could use Paigo to determine the data size customers have consumed, and an API company can use Paigo to track customers’ API requests. Additionally, we also help you understand your cost to serve your clients’ usage, and this data allows us to provide your SaaS with usage based billing.

What’s the problem we are solving? Many SaaS products need to measure their customer's usage in some form, and many want to incorporate it into their billing plans. It’s fairly annoying to either build the entire system in house or to build a measurement system in house and then connect to a billing provider. It takes months to get a usage based billing system up and running and usually requires several engineers (if not more) to maintain and operate. Also, when Sales wants to offer specific discounts or deals to major enterprises, it’s typically handled outside of the in-house system in Excel spreadsheets with some good guesses. This is how a lot of money gets lost for major deals.

With Paigo we handle 100% of the measurement and collection of SaaS customers’ usage for the business. SaaS business can see their customers’ usage within 10 minutes, because all they need to do is give us read access to their cloud account. Since we pull the lower level infra-data we can additionally give information like per tenant cost, and profit margin.

Matt and I came to this project after we built similar internal billing systems at previous jobs and we realized how error-prone these systems can be—one incident might have even undercharged a client by a few million dollars! We also realized there was no solution which integrated directly to a backend system and handled the measurement and gathering of usage data as well as providing the end billing integration to platforms like stripe, AWS marketplace, or through ACH.

To get into the technical details Paigo has a few measurement systems to measure different forms of usage data: infrastructure-based, where we connect directly to cloud APIs then to slice-and-dice per tenant usage data; agent-based, where our agent is deployed into a runtime to gather usage like pod cpu time, memory, and file read write, along with any exported metrics that are prometheus compatible; and datastore-based, where we connect directly to datastores like S3, Kinesis, or log file. We require that the data in the datastore based approach adhere to a standard data format so we can process it. However this allows us to Pull, any custom metrics and dimensions directly from your Datastore. All of this data is then processed and sent to our backend usage journal, where we store it in an append-only ledger pattern.

For clients to search, and aggregate their data into an end bill or to slice and dice their client’s cost and usage we have an API clients can use. We’re an API first company, which is why our demo can work with Retool—the demo is just a very thin skin over our API. The API is a NestJS based application, currently running in AWS Lambda with API-Gateway.

We bill based on invoiced revenue (surprise surprise its usage based) and we have a platform fee, roughly it breaks down to 1% of invoiced revenue on Paigo. Note that pricing is not currently transparent on our website. Our typical customers are mid-sized enterprises where an initial sales call is typically expected. However, we will be updating our main webpage soon to have some self-service options.

For a bit of deeper dive on the measurement engine we have some docs here: https://docs.paigo.tech/

Thanks for taking time to read! Let us know what you hate and maybe what you love :P. We’d also love to hear your thoughts and experiences with measuring customer usage and usage-based billing!.

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One of my favourite things is to make parody logos, so I’m not just advertising big companies for free. (GT: Its Funkhouse) 0

Hello, I am a young and beginner graphic designer. I can make your band logo for you for free or some promo. I would be happy to accept some donations so I can grow musically (I am a drummer and I need a new cymbal ^^). Some of my works with imaginary bands. 1

I thought the old play free now logo thingy for Rec Room looked very sketchy and outdated so I tried making my own. (I couldn't get the gifs of the characters on the side or the exact background so just pretend they are there) 2

Created the Sims logo and background (from the announcement of Sims 4 becoming free) as a loading screen. The plumbob is currently static, but I'm planning to make it animated, and maybe upload it then to MTS 3

Anarchists are famous for getting their own logo wrong while also very carefully making sure not to get spray paint on the harder to clean window frames that would upset the landlord of the leased property. 4

Making free logos for people as long as they're relatively simple. Below are some examples of the logos I've made. Any logo at a similar scale to the examples I can make. 5

Making a custom 'hail hydro' logo for hydro homie boyfriend! 6

Sometime back, a fellow redditor https://www.reddit.com/user/izzymroo offered to make a free logo. I requested a philanthropist ape and this is what they created. They gave their blessing to be used for philanthropy so I now share it with yall. 7

Hello everyone, I made this logo for a music laboratory and record company called dynamight, the main idea of the icon is to play with the sense of a speaker + florence flask and use a sans serif font to express dynamism and modernity, feel free to make constructive criticism!! 8

Was taking a picture of my collection for my players so they knew what books I had, when I noticed that the edge studios books Star Wars logo is different sized than FFG making them stick out. Minor gripe I know but it still bugs me. 9

I need an opinion on this. I’m making a 100 level story driven backrooms game and I’m designing a logo for it. Dose this fit the backrooms and what are some critiques on it 10

My friend started making custom rugs, so I asked him to do one with Bandit faction logo 11

My kids’ attempts at making the Ghost logo on their sugar cookies. 12

i will make someone a free logo (see comment) 13

Imaging making a restaurant of kebab with a logo and the name of a guy who really did cut people up ... how fucked up can human be 14

My attempt at making a Grineer Discord logo! 15

making lulu streetwear!! wearing mens pool short in black, wunder puff vest in trench, & patch logo tote crossbody 16

I'm making a fantasy kingdom builder game and made a new version of the logo. Any feedback? 17

Was this logo modeled after an actual player, or is it just a generic QB making a pass? 18

How To Make A FREE Logo In UNDER 5 Minutes (No Software Required) 19

In the progress of making the keyboard from Portal. Custom keycaps, custom PCB and custom firmware. Still need to replace the cherry logo with an Aperture logo and add a proper USB-C plug, but then it's all done! 20

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Logo design for an e-Learning platform that makes courses for learning digital skills. They want to convey a sense of availability and delight while at the same being down to earth. Please feel free to share your thoughts 22

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