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Really excited to use this, i'm migrating off stainless after anthropic bought them, we have to be off by september

How does this differ from context.dev's logo link or logo.dev?

:'(

It's worth noting that just because something takes time doesn't mean it's automatically worth doing.

Vibe slop-ing at supersonic speeds and waiting years to grow aren't the only options, there's something in between where you have enough signal to keep going and enough speed to not waste years on the wrong thing.

I feel that today's VCs have completely disregarded the middle and are focused on getting as big as possible as fast as possible without regard to the effect it's having on the ecosystem.

Curious about the following

- are you just using favicons? - how often are you refreshing the logos? - what if no logo is found? - What is your universe set size? (I tried my own business brand.dev and said no logo)

Disclaimer: I run a similar feature on a separate product (https://docs.brand.dev/logolink)

Hey everyone!

Just shipped the brand.dev logo link, meant as a drop in clearbit logo api replacement.

Wanted to share

Hi HN, I'm Yahia, I’ve been working on Brand.dev, an API that lets you retrieve logos, colors, typography, and company metadata from any domain, name, or ticker.

It’s used to power onboarding personalization, branded UIs, enriched transactions, AI prompts, and automated styleguides.

The goal is to make it trivial for products and AI systems to be “brand-aware” without asking users to upload assets manually.

The most obvious use-case is to pre-load your onboarding flow based on the user's corporate email so that they only need to "confirm" rather than fill out their information, it provides a pretty significant conversion rate boost for PLG B2B products.

Other use-cases include: - Powering Gen AI (ad makers, brand kits, etc...) - Automatically prefilling brand kits for email marketing platforms - Enriching company profiles for directories, CRMs, etc.. - and more!

Curious to hear your thoughts :)

Dang, extremely thorough feedback! Thank you :)

It's meant for B2B sales, teams can generate good looking sales rooms and share them with their target customer and track everything they do on the page.

The idea is that it's supposed to help deals avoid dying through endless email chains where its hard to tell what to do next.

SAAS usecases: - Personalizing onboarding to improve conversion rates - CRM data enrichment - Transaction data enrichment - Data to power gen AI - etc.....

Any time you want to programmatically enrich data with visual data this would come in handy.

It's very much a "this is exactly what i need" or "i definitely don't need this" type of service from what i've seen

It indeed does.

My reasoning for creating this are the alternatives are WAY TOO EXPENSIVE (5-10x per api call).

Since it's a one man show, i don't need much margin and i'm happy to just keep it alive since my friends and i use it for other projects that have more significant margin.

High quality proxies, depending on the site i'll use anything from data center proxy up to residential :)

Almost all requests goes through a proxy to be honest.

You pay per GB transferred basically which works ok for me at the moment.

Update: I made it so anyone signing up from now on doesn't have to click the "generate api key" button and instead can hit the API playground right away.

Cheers!

Thank you!

Bingo! Framer it is

However i hired a designer for the landing page. My design skills are decent but for a product named "brand.dev" i thought it was worth it to pay for a proper design.

This is absolutely fascinating, thank you for elaborating! I'll need to dig into this much deeper it seems.

My train of thought was that i was basically offering a hyper-opinionated scraping service since all im doing is scraping publicly available data and packaging it for a particular usecase (similar to say, zoominfo which also provides logos for example).

I will dive into this.

Out of curiosity, what's your background to have all this info? Are you a lawyer of some sort? It was a great writeup.

If they have a website then it should work out of the box! Curious why you thought of sports teams though?

I do! You have to create your API key then the playground appears on the developer portal.

The fact you couldn't find it means i need to change something, will start auto generating the keys upon signup.

At the moment subdomains work just fine and are separate however it's not perfect since you can use an alternative route on the same domain with different branding.

A work in progress to be honest.

What are you doing to prevent phishing scammers from using your service to create fake login pages en masse? This has plagued similar services to yours.

I check what websites are fetching the logos constantly and block any that seem malicious including canceling their api keys.

How can brand owners opt out of your service's infringing their intellectual property rights in their logos?

I fetch publicly available assets for any brand, i'm not passing them off as my own. Let me know what gave you that impression please :)

Yep scraping alot of sites, what specifically would you like to know?

Happy to answer any questions!

a pocket knife search engine: https://knifegeek.io

i like knives

I'm surprised the homepage doesn't show an example API call, I assumed the target audience are developers.

Yeah that's 100% a fair call-out, adding one now.

Prices are listed after creating an account: $49/month - Up to 1000 API calls per month $99/month - Up to 3000 API calls per month

Just added a pricing page and linked to it from the navigation bar. https://brand.dev/pricing

When I tried the cUrl call (copy&paste from the dashboard) I got an error "{"message":"Unauthorized: Invalid token"}"

Yeah this was a ridiculous bug on my end, apologies, it's fixed now!

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Thanks for the feedback. Happy to throw some credits on your account if you'd like to take it for a whirl! hello@brand.dev

how exactly does this help someone?

https://www.knifegeek.io/ -> Online pocket knife database

Hey! Thank you for checking it out. This is a good one: hello@pitchpower.ai

Let me know what you think, thanks!

Seems like someone else had the same idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35242174

Ironically both of you launched on the same day.

2 hour turnaround time implies ya'll are doing it manually behind the scenes?

Fascinating, i personally can't see myself using for anything more than setting up a project though, maybe you can provide an examples page where you show how useful it is for existing large scale projects?

also regarding the customers you've already onboarded, possibly worth it to make case study blogs?