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hi drastic kitties wendy here today, we're going to draw the vans logo so, let's get started, to draw this vance logo let's first, start by drawing the v so i'm going to, come right here and i'm going to start, with an angle so about right here i'll, start, and this is going to be the uh, i guess the inside of the v, okay so it's a little bit um narrower, and i'm going to come right across my, center, so about right here just easier for my, hand to come down so, go ahead and connect it, and remember jose cuties we are doing, this free hand so it, it's not going to be exactly the same, proportions but we just want to aim to, when you look at it it looks like the, vans logo that's all we're aiming for, okay so from there let's come out right, here, and definitely use a pencil if you can, if you have one at home instead of a, sharpie so you can make any adjustments, okay so from there our goal is to have, the same thickness for all the letters, that's the goal right here so i'm going, to start about right this much thickness, and i'm going to come down following, this angle, so come down, about right there, about that much and this logo is a lot, easier to draw because the letters are, not too fancy, and everything is black, so if i need to make any adjustments, it's easy to do that to go in there so, about that much i'll come to the other, side and do the same thing, to about the same thickness, and, basically follow, my angle and connect, there so we got our v in right, okay so then from there there's this, long stripe that comes across right so, let's, do that a little bit of it now so we, have something to go by, let me get my camera make sure i'm going, straight so same thickness so say about, right here, about right here, and i know it's i have these letters, underneath this stripe so i'm going to, go out, but not too much so i'll stop about, right there, and then i'll start with the a so the a, is right under here we follow the v, so give it a little bit space, so we'll say about right here i'll start, this corner right here, and we're just following the v nice and, easy, and once again i mean nice and simple, not easy, so once again about same thickness same, width, and we're going to bring it down so, mimicking this angle on this side, about that much and we're all aiming for, the same level going straight across, so to make it easier i'm going to come, down by right here, give myself a center point follow, the angles and connect, and come down a little bit more, right here, and connect, straight across so if you're using a, pencil you would just take this point, and draw all the way down, and then add the two lines, okay so we have an a in, now, for the end so right next to the a so, i'll start at the bottom right here, and go all the way up so it's about, right here, and just like the a right across, and the same, about the same thickness with, about that much and i'm just going to, draw a rectangle here, make it a little bit easier and the, reason i'm able to do these lines right, here is because like i said, it's all solid black so i can just go in, there and shade it and it won't matter, so like drawing this line doesn't matter, either because it makes it a little bit, easier so come across a little bit, once again and draw another rectangle, same exact thing, okay so then now to draw, the angle so from here we're going to, come down, and following the same so about right, here's, down to this point, so we have the n in so now the s, so, the s is a little bit trickier, um so about right here okay so i'm going, to start right here because i want the s, to be really close to the end so, that way i can make sure i am so i'm, going to add a curve first right there, and start, and so just remember it's about the same, width so i got that, curve okay so then about right here i'll, stop, bring in, a line, and now i'm going to start to go, curve, and just remember we want about the same, thickness, and we're ending down right here, just keep that in mind, and bring it down so put right here, so continue follow your curve, go up, there we did it so yes the s is a lot, trickier than the other letters, um so then now that we know where the s, is we can go ahead and finish this line, so bring it all the way through, and it ends right where the s end, and this goes all the way through and, then we're going to give it a slight, slant so it's going to go past it, and about right here i'll stop, and add an angle same as this, and that is pretty much it so i'm going, to come in here and shade everything in, black, and make any adjustments i need to make, to make lines a little bit straighter or, thicker, whatever needs to be done to fix it, [Music], so they're all done i really hope i made, it a little bit easier for you to draw, this vance logo and um i helped you out, and if i did please make sure to, subscribe if you haven't already and, turn on your notification bell so you, won't miss any new drastic cute videos, see you later, [Music]

I've paid a designer, and they've vanished. What to do now?About 9 days ago, I paid a designer to do logo work for my site (picc.it). I hadn't worked with them previously, but was referred to them through a business contact who works with them closely.

We did a paid trial run at first, then after I settled that they were good at their job I produced 100% of the payment for the main project.

Since then they haven't responded to any emails, or otherwise contacted me.

I paid via Paypal so I have 45 days to dispute this. Should I dispute or keep trying to contact them or ask the person who referred me to them to contact them (I'm sure he has better contact info than I do)?

Any advice would be welcome..
,New Logo For MySpace: No Longer A Place For Friends,What will be the top 3 trends in 2016, that shape how we build our startups?Hey there,

During the holidays I was thinking about how 2016 will be different, better than 2015. There are a lot of articles about emerging markets, technologies, but those are the focus of entrepreneurs. But I'm interested in what will change in how we build startups...

Here are my top 3 guesses.

1. Augmented productivity:
I'm a fan of the gig economy ever since I ordered the first $5 logo design from fiverr. And I'm just starting to explore MTurk. This year I'll put a lot of effort into learning how to combine these with workflow automation services like Zapier, and new AI stuff... I think such methods could multiple personal productivity. Inspired by the guy who automated 90% of his work.
http://www.businessinsider.com/programmer-automates-his-job-2015-11

2. Improved startup-building platforms:
It would be such a blessing to multiply the ratio of successful startups, and lower the pain of failing. I mean, 9 out of 10 startups fail even in developed startup hubs. That's one metric that we need to fix. Traditional incubators and accelerators are nice, but not too effective in mitigating risks. I loved how YC started Research (http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-research), and even more, that there are now so much more startup studios (http://buildtogether.co/startup-studio-list), and finally there's a booklet (http://laicos.com/anatomy-of-startup-studios-is-out/) that explains in detail how these venture builders work.

3.Crowd*:
Besides perk based crowdfunding, there are more and more platforms where you can offer equity in your startup for support. That just adds to the option of the founders to get the money they need... who know, maybe even faster than angel money and with better than vanilla term sheet conditions.

What do you think, what are your picks?

@aszig.
,Ask HN: What Elements Has Your Perfect Pricing PageHi,

I am working on our future pricing page and looked at 303 websites and came up with a list of best practices for our pricing page.

I wanted to share my finding and hopefully you can add yours?

- Call to action headline that matches the unique selling points mentioned on the homepage

- Subheadline will give details on trial, no credit card needed, amount of users in system (if the over 10,000), sense of urgency using get started in 60 seconds. Product positioning (what does the product do). Value messaging

- Plan that focus on different markets you address

- Website design Features, Pricing & Plans, About, Contact and remove the rest (including login) form the menu so there not to many links.

- Trust element top right (phone-number will work well there)

- All plans above the fold

- Free plan in bottom right of plan (if your bootstrapped, but if you have VC money and Freemium is your strategy, place free as first plan)

- High to low or low to high, 62% of SaaS companies have low-to-high and with lack of research I guess thats the best. (We will go and test these once we add the pricing page)

- Badges (user logo’s) under plans as trust elements (make them gray so there not distracting)

- Communicate the differences not focus on the similarities of the plan

- Scanable (not to long page)

- Clear pricing (good contrast)

- Use color on background of plans to keep focus on each plan. Mouse over background on horizontal is a nice feature.

- Make bigger plan feel bigger using a visual element that becomes bigger with the growing plan.

- Keep in line with website design

- Important features in F eyetracking line (price, plan differences and sign-up button)

- Mention USD not $ (Austrailian and Canadian dollars look the same)

- Testimonial under plans

- Explain how things work billing, 30 days, free under plans

- Mouse over on features

- Little amount of links (you do not want them to click away)

- Impeccable grammar (in my case huge problem :-) with easy fix... let someone check it

- Call to Actions Orange

- Blue color gives trust we might use these on plans that are not the preferred plan (need to test this)

- Green associates with wealth (try to add green check-marks on items that are simular)

- Use full screen width for plans (no right blocks with sign-up or text

- Repeat 14/30 day trial under sign-up buttons so they know what they sign-up for (<button: Sign-Up> for 14 Day Trail)

- Add some credit-cards logo's or payment processor logo to pricing page as trust element if you do not have a lot of well known clients. You can also add SSL seal if your just starting and have little trust elements available.

- Social Proof (twitter accounts, positive tweets, testimonials etc. all help (under pricing plans)

Referrals
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/13/pricing-tables-showcase-examples-and-best-practices/

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/pricing-page-trends/

http://www.reedge.com/303-ideas-for-pricing-pages.html

http://blog.reedge.com/best-pricing-practices-or-conventional-wisdom.html

http://www.sixteenventures.com

Love to hear more! Leave you comments below. Thanx

Dennis van der Heijden

Reedge.com (Conversion Rate Optimizer Tool: Tracking, Testing, Funnels and Personalization).
,Getting Boxes of T-shirts printed up?Getting boxes of T-shirts printed up?

We're going to be presenting at an industry trade show this August, and we're looking to have some apparel made up for giving away to attendees.

For the show, we're interested in finding the cheapest reliable vendor possible, so we can crank out the shirts, and give as many away as possible. Hopefully we can give away a few hundred one-color logo shirts as freebies.

After the show, we'd like to sell shirts from the website, but these will probably be through a vendor who can print up nice multi-color shirts, as well as handling the inventorying for us and POD.

If you have any experience with getting shirts printed up, either van loads of cheap ones or expensive nice ones for sale, I'd love to hear it..
,Ask HN: What do you think of dropshipping?Dropshippping [1] is hugely popular and has flooded online marketplaces. For example, Amazon and eBay are filled with dropshipped listings. Even Etsy ("handmade, craft, vintage") is swamped with dropshipped products.

Many product categories are now dominated by dropshipped products. We've all seen the same product photos listed under different "brands" by diffrent sellers with different prices - essentially the same product. Trudging through page after page of dropshipped products can be a chore.

I don't begrudge anyone running a dropshipping business, but at the same time it does feel that many dropshipping sellers do not really care for the quality of the product they sell. If there is any product differentiation it rarely goes beyond sticking a logo on the product.

Is the picture of dropshipping above a fair one?

What are you thoughts on dropshipping as a customer? What are your thoughts if you are a dropshipper?

[1] Shopify explanation of dropshipping: Dropshipping is an order fulfillment method where a store doesn’t keep the products it sells in stock. Instead, the seller purchases inventory as needed from a third party—usually a wholesaler or manufacturer—to fulfill orders..
,I need help with an open source app to keep Canadians in touch with ParliamentAndroid Source (https://github.com/sunnypurewal/epac-android)

Android App (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglebox.epac)

iOS Source (https://github.com/sunnypurewal/epac-ios/)

iOS App (https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/epac/id1224459142?mt=8)

I recently released both iOS and Android versions of an app that turns Hansard into a chat bot. I am interested in vastly extending the features in this app to include all of the data available on http://www.parl.gc.ca/ A few immediate examples are creating a French version of the app and designing a new logo.

It is too easy these days to be uninformed about what's happening in the federal government. Following Parliamentary proceedings is an important aspect of keeping tabs on government but it is too often reduced to short sound bites in the news, or presented in an almost unwatchable format such as on CPAC. I want to take the trove of data made available by Parliament and present it in a way that is engaging using modern technology. All data provided by the government are made available under the Speaker's Permission (http://www.parl.gc.ca/SpeakerPermission.aspx?Language=E) and is prohibited from being used for financial gain, so the benefit of this project is purely a public service.

I originally planned to do this work individually but I realized I would not be able to deliver features quickly enough on my own. I believe this app is a valuable resource for staying informed and I am confident that people will use it given the feedback I have received already. I'm hoping that by making this app open source, that there will be others that share this belief and will want to contribute.

If you are interested, try out the app on your smartphone, and take a look at the data sources at http://www.parl.gc.ca/ParlBusiness.aspx?Language=E and the code linked at the top of the post. Send me a message if you want to help..
,A Page From A DiaryI mean, what is a guy like me supposed to do right? I could stop smoking so as to be better off financially hence able to indulge in activities, but have I not been trying? Have I not been trying for the past 3 months or so and seriously trying for the past at least month?
What is a guy like me supposed to do? Very poor, very intelligent, minimal social contacts. What, what are my options? Follow my career path, yes of course, but am I to suffer for the next 3 years? Am I to go on still as I have for the past seven years?
You know I’ve pored my heart to that website. I have spent god knows how much time on it and finally I achieved near perfection and you know what happens? It has been shut down because I have been unable to afford my bill and instead focused on getting money to feed my habit rather than pay the fuckin bill. I nearly achieved perfection you know. I vertically aligned it which has given it a very clean and simple look and today finished my header with a little cute logo on it, it was just, it was just the stuff of passionate and determined hard work and what happens? It gets closed.
Now! Now that it has gone from only 2 people to 20. Now, now that I sorted out all the adverts! Now, now that i finally finished design aspects!

It is always drama with me isn’t it? It is always at the edge of failure, always at the edge of the unattainable, always at the edge. Such position does indeed at times give me such deep and utterly profound emotions never experienced before, but god knows what it does to my physical wellbeing.
I have been seeing convincing similiarities between dreams (as in sleep time dreams) and reality. One of the most startling but at the same time edglite is this conviction of the reality that is held with dreaming. In no way, at no point, most of the time while dreaming, do I doubt its reality. It is assumed, it is not a dream until I am awake. Sometimes I go to the edge and ask whether it is infact a dream. Very rearly do I succeed in such realisation; in fact I can not recall a time that I have.
I do recall being at the edge tho, at times thinking that it might be a dream, but not unlike in real life such thoughts are shaken off rather quickly. There is no seriousness in considering the question, it is from the moment that it is made intuitively untrue. That our intuitions might lie to us I have not thought of, but that they do I am unable to doubt. There are many instances when awoken I ask why did I not go ahead and do that, Why was I held back by other considerations, it was just a fucking dream.
It is not hard to imagine myself waking up in some bed in some house the moment I die. What I will remember I am unable to say, probably nothing. What i would expect though is familiarity not only with the environment surrounding me, but myself and my life which clearly right now I have no clue of what it is. Sometimes I see dreams which present characters or events which are familiar to me. They are familiar because I had dreamed of them before. It might be my mind playing while I am asleep, maybe it has run out of content, but I do not think that there is anything truer in life than this: Whatever I have wished for it has been granted to me. Even a character for heavens sake. Anything, any fucking thing I have wished for has come to materialise. So what am I to make of it? What else but that reality is a dream as real as reality itself. I have though decided not to use wishes. It feels as if I am selling my soul to setan because every wish that has come to pass has had more nightmares than dreams. I wish to feel, experience everything that life throws at me and indeed embrace the rality aspect of what might aswell be a dream. I feel weary of easy taking and giving for if each dream was ment to be like i wished it then it surley would have been so.
The last dream I saw was a rather fascinating one because I had arrived at an insight about something. I was dealing with a complex problem but the complexity lay in my perception of a given something rather than on that given something itself. I though, when I woke up, that I had been discussing a truth which was being revealed and explained to myself. The dream I think ended with my grasp of such truth, the last words probably were Ahha. So why do I bring this up? Because excitement and other emotions which are brought up in certain unique circumstances would vanish in a world in which what one wishes materialises. There would be no secrets to be revealed in such world, no struggles to be overcomed and no joy to be felt..
,Logo Quiz For Android Answers,Ask HN: What is your corporate open source strategy?Interested in every aspect but for example, do you:

use it for your company?
use it in your products?
take advantage of open source complexity to sell services?
contract individuals or projects to add features & fixes?
hire project developers to work on your corporate priorities?
contract OSS companies to add features & fixes?
direct employees to work on corporate priorities within projects?
donate employee time to help out projects in general?
donate money to individual or projects?
donate money to open source ecosystem organisations?
pay for your logo on project repos, websites or conferences?
hire individuals to work at your company?
hire individuals to lock up talent?
release everything you do as open source?
release things that aren't "secret sauce"?
release things to distract the industry?
keep customisations in-house?
have a policy about licenses?
approve of the company open source strategy?

If you aren't working at a company feel free to answer for yourself or the organisation you are working for..
,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!.
,Dear Google: I'm not a spammer selling things - I'm a buyerGoogle seems to think that I'm a spammer. But really they're keeping a bunch of designers (5 or 6 now) from possibly getting my business.

I'm trying to get in touch with a couple design studios about a web design project.

I'm emailing them via the addresses they provide on their sites, and Google is rejecting my message:

"Message rejected by Google Groups. Please visit http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=188131 to review our Bulk Email Senders Guidelines."

Is this a spam message?

"[Dear Designer] -- I came across your site recently and was impressed with the worknyou've done.

[My company] is looking to re-do our website and build a small portfolio ofnillustrations/icons that we can use in marketing (and potentially withinnour product). We've already started a "branding/logo" exercise internallynso we're mainly looking for a partner to help design our web experience andngenerate some high-quality illustrations/graphics that help tell the storynof our business/product.

So, I'm interested in learning more about your work with [tech B2B/enterprise] design projects.

About us: [50 word summary of our company]

You can imagine that we're looking for a design partner that understands our product and its value and how to communicate it. Can you share some examples of stuff you've done that might make sensengiven all the above?

Thanks".
,Launch HN: Journey (YC W21) – a better tool for selling softwareHi, we’re pclark, bweitz and anilsevim, the founders of Journey (https://journey.io). We want to make buying and selling software a better experience. We do this by allowing sellers and marketers to combine all sorts of content—slides, videos, forms, calendars, text—into one sharable webpage, which they can then easily personalize for specific prospects. Think of it like a website that is specifically designed for a specific individual to take a specific action, which answers any questions or objections they may have.

For example, I took one of our standard demos and made a "personalized" version for HN here: https://jny.journey.io/p/3bbb55f82a224e399aafd2dc04f4f32b?pr.... To customize it, I simply added the YC logo at the top, and a "Welcome HN" video to intro the demo—but you can customize these things as much as you like, as your sales process moves forward.

Edit: here's a further example on top of that one: https://jny.journey.io/p/3bbb55f82a224e399aafd2dc04f4f32b?em.... In response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27235504, I made a new version of the "Welcome HN" demo by adding a personalized intro video, changing the logo at the top (I just picked a different one arbitrarily), and restricting it to a specific person (note the "only visible to [email address]" text on the right). Of course it's not really restricted, because we want you all to see it, but it's an example of how you can evolve these demos in response to specific people's questions.

Back in 2012 I launched a B2B email marketing startup called Userfox on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4715237), and as that company grew I repeatedly found that it was really hard to create an email that performed well—because if an email is too long users will skim over it, and if it has more than one link they’ll never come back to click them all. Our hope is that Journey helps fix such interactions by allowing you to send users a specific page that has all the content you want them to read, including answers to their specific questions about your product.

Sales people have a hard job, and we don’t think their tools help them enough—they have to rely on live meetings and phone calls. Which is annoying because a live phone call is pretty much the last thing I want to do when I want to actually use a product. You have to talk to a sales person because there isn’t a good way to communicate complexity today in an asynchronous manner.

Sales and marketing is actually ‘just’ storytelling. You build something and then you tell people why they want it. We often think that the latter part is the easy part—but it isn’t! It’s really hard to introduce your product to someone, even when you know they would benefit from it.

If Journey can provide a superior storytelling experience it stands to reason that humans will require fewer live meetings. You don’t need to telephone for a taxi because you have the Uber app.... You won’t need to talk to a human to buy software because you’ll have Journey…

Journey specifically is a web app where you can embed and sequence various pieces of content (videos, slides, forms, calendars, …) and then share that sequence (a “Journey”). You can then take a Journey and personalize it for a specific recipient. Once you’ve shared a Journey, you get insights on where they’re spending time, and any comments they may have. Over time, you and your prospect can build up an entire sales conversation this way, focused around what they specifically need from your product. And you can reuse any bits that worked particularly well in your future conversations with other prospects.

We’d love to know what HN thinks of Journey, here's a link again to our HN demo mentioned above: https://jny.journey.io/p/3bbb55f82a224e399aafd2dc04f4f32b?pr.... From there you’ll be able to sign up, request an onboarding call, view case studies, and learn more. Thank you!!.
,Ask HN: Why does Gitlab's top-right logo now say “Gitlab Next”?I've been a convert to GitLab for around 8 months. But I guess I missed something, because as of today there's a big green "Next" label near the regular GitLab logo. A skimming of the blog and a Duck Duck Go search don't immediately reveal an answer. I've checked it logged in and while logged out and it's still there.

(Quick shill: Github is great for discovering and sharing open source projects, no doubt; but try GitLab for your own FOSS or private repos. It somehow "just works" while being extremely flexible. I run their "built-in" CI runner on VPS and local machines for free, and the whole platform is open source and installable anywhere. Mirror any open repos on Github of course, but it's like a "MegaUpload" site compared to Gitlab's actual tools. Rant complete.).
,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..
,Ask YC: What do you think of our site, bug.gd?http://bug.gd

The idea is simple: you search for an error message on bug.gd. If the solution is there, you win. If not, then we'll ask you (48 hours later) how you figured it out. Your answer is saved to help the next lost soul.

Our latest news is our launch of a Firefox extension that lets you skip the email reminder aspect, saves some keystrokes (auto-paste), and tracks your unsolved errors.

The vision is to get to the point where silly things like computer errors and crashes never need to be solved twice. If someone solves a problem, everyone gets benefit of the answer. We've been asked why users would use the service over searching Google, but we see that as saying you prefer throwing things in the trash over recycling. Some people are like that, but there are many of us that don't want our work to be wasted. As a bonus, since all the solutions submitted are indexed by major search engines, you're helping even those who don't use the site.

Back in October we prepopulated the database with 65,000 Microsoft KB article error messages and it's been growing ever since. Let us know what you think, if you have a moment.

(And, yeah, the logo is intentionally and subtly buggy. We'll get over our silliness eventually.).
,Ask HN: promoting and positioning very early stage web apps?I'll put the 'TL/DR' version up front: When following the 'it's never too early to launch' philosophy, how do you position the application to visitors or potential customers?

I hear PG and others saying often that you can't really launch too soon; that you should launch as soon as your app is remotely useful; in fact that if you were not uncomfortable with the state of the product when you first launched you waited too long.

I've done that, launching the first iteration site of a site in the past week. While the feedback (quite limited so far) is helpful and interesting, frankly I am a bit uncomfortable with the state of the product. The site has some utility but it should be obvious to anyone who spends any time on there that this product is in what I'd consider a pre-beta state. It's not that the site is buggy or that there are dead ends or 'coming soon' links or anything like that. The features that exist in the live version are relatively polished. It's just that the site is clearly 'light' on features and content.

I want the feedback from having my application live, but I'm afraid my app isn't complete enough yet to justify promoting it very much. But without promotion I won't get much feedback.

(One answer is laboratory style user testing, paper prototyping and the like, but I could have (and to a limited extent, did) do that without launching. I believe there's something valuable about the real world context, but I'm not entirely comfortable with the initial impression I'm giving to visitors.)

So, how do you position a very early phase site with customers/visitors/users? I guess we could slap a 'beta' sticker on the logo, but that feels like the modern equivalent the 'under construction' digging guy from the 90s--it indicates 'broken and likely to stay that way' as much as 'early stage and dynamically improving'. Besides, is 'beta' is just a term of art for our industry? Does the public at large relate to 'beta' in a meaningful way? I'm not sure my target market does.

Is there a way to say 'yes, we know it is lame right now but just you wait and see' without turning off potential users or looking unprofessional? Is there a way to send a strong enough message to invite the public at large to check out the site without setting them up to say, 'lame, call me back when it's ready?'.
,What we ended up doing about a potential trademark infringmentHi,

I previously submitted a dilema in Ask HN regarding trademark infringement. Another company had pursued us claiming that we were infringing their trademark. Not having the means for legal fees (not a good place to waste money in an early stage business, anyway) I asked HN and got some useful advice. You can check the thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3377263

I wanted to add an update as it may be of use to others in a similar situation and perhaps some of you might have had sleepless nights wondering what we did in the end ;)

So, we changed our name to The Super Times and our logo too - http://thesupertimes.com/ The reasons for doing this were:

1. It wasn't a battle we were interested in fighting. With just 2 founders and limited resources we want to spend all our energy and time on the product at this stage.

2. We hadn't invested too much time or money on branding. After having the initial business idea we used a quick scribbly logo / identity to get going and intended to re-visit this as we got closer to launching our app.

3. We came up with something better. Although there wasn't any concrete grounds for a serious legal case (I think our names and branding were different enough) a rethink of the branding actually forced us to come up with something more relevant to our proposition.

Thanks to those who answered my query on Ask HN - it proved to be a quick and useful way to get advice.

:).
,Ask HN: Anyone interested to work on a project basis as a graphic artist?I'm not sure if this is allowed; however I saw a posting and it wasn't answered here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1169942

I'm looking for a seasoned graphic artist who knows how to work with illustrator, indesign, and whatnot, to create unique layouts for different genres of websites. As well as some logo design and tracing.

You wouldn't need to code anything, although if you knew how to convert that layout into a nice HTML page, it would be a major benefit.

The pay would be project based.

If you're interested, contact me with some examples of your work & pay expectation: topqadmin <<at>> gmail.

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Re-do on “Driving Home” logo for van life YouTube channel. Got allot of constructive criticism on the first version and am looking forward to some more! 0

This is my one of my favorite shirts I have looked all over my house for it and would honestly buy a another one if I could. I don’t have a full photo of it so it doesn’t work when I back search on google but it’s a distressed dark grey cropped muscle tank with a glitchy Vans skateboard logo on it. 1

This is my one of my favorite shirts I have looked all over my house for it and would honestly buy a another one if I could. I don’t have a full photo of it so it doesn’t work when I back search on google but it’s a distressed dark grey cropped muscle tank with a glitchy Vans skateboard logo on it. 2

[Erik van Haren] As is known, Honda will continue to supply engines to Red Bull and AlphaTauri until 2025. From the next Grand Prix in Japan, the Honda logo will also be on the four cars again, to give extra attention to the current collaboration. 3

The logo for the Van Cliburn Piano competition, one of the most prestigious international piano competitions which occurs once every four years. Logo spells out VC while also being a piano! 4

[FS] Supreme S Logo Vans for retail 5

Can anyone ID? They're Vans, I'd guess late 90's early 2000s from the logo 6

Saw a van like this, three little doors on the side and the police checkering all around with the logo on the front side, rural NSW. Anyone know what it’s for or what it is? 7

Just made these custom Vans for my fiancé's birthday! I even had EA approve of me using the logo :D 8

I created this Logo for a luxury van transport company. Thoughts ? 9

Vans X Supreme Skate Grosso Mid (Monogram S Logo/Black) UNBOXING 10

Designed a Logo and Van for Dipper to solve mysteries in 11

First pair of sk8-his. Slowly starting to get addicted to vans outlets. Snagged these for $30. Bar the small vans logos I’m liking the styling so far. I still think I prefer my old-skools or slip ons though. What do you guys usually rock these with? Pants usually or some high-socks and shorts? 12

Anyone know what these red x’s indicate over the Vans logo of the footbed? 13

Do you think haters are going to be giving out shit to vans for using this “generic logo” that everyone was hating on last month? 🤦🏻‍♂️ 14

Here’s another of my growing collection. Always thought it was kinda cool how the left vans logo always rubs off from driving stick. 😀 15

not to be that guy but I need to point out that Munhoz switched eyes (see the buttons on his shirt as well as the vans logo) 16

My take on the vans logo (from personal experience) 17

An old screenshot Volkswagen van logo 18

Guess I’m not in on the secret. Any ideas regarding either the logo on the van or this bumper sticker? 19

Just seen one of their vans, it was parked with trees obstructing the side, so here's a screenshot from the website. Serious credit to whoever designed this logo! 20

wetenschapper laat logo van universiteit op zijn arm tatoeëren 21

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