Show HN: My Take on Logo Design: Leveraging Diffusion AI for Entrepreneurs

[IuMaker]

Hello Hacker News community,

I wanted to share a project born out of my own entrepreneurial journey – Diffusion Logo Studio. If you're a founder or entrepreneur, you've likely experienced the challenge of getting a unique logo for your small projects. Well, I've been there too, and I've got something that might help.

What is Diffusion Logo Studio? Diffusion Logo Studio is the result of my journey into web development and AI. It's not just another logo maker; it's your solution to easily craft distinctive logos for your projects (at least that’s the idea).

Tech Stack for the Curious Minds For the tech-savvy out there, I chose to build the web app with SvelteKit, I love its simplicity. It's my first web app, so I'm open to feedback and learning from the community.

Pricing You don't need to register or pay anything to create a logo, and you can even download it for free if you share it on social media. But in case you find the service valuable, I'm offering a 90% discount code (HN90) – it might help with those GPU costs!

Continuous Improvement I'm a strong believer in real user feedback. I initially launched this on Product Hunt and got some fantastic insights. I've already made improvements based on that feedback, and I'm eager to hear what you think.

Join the Discussion I'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to give it a spin and share your thoughts. As fellow entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts, your input means a lot.

P.S. Feel free to ask me anything about the tech behind it or my journey as an entrepreneur.

[techGranny]

I tried it in my trusty iPhone 7. All logo creation steps worked and the UI was responsive enough, but I couldn’t open the Advanced options in the vectorization step.

I was a bit confused in the vectorization step as there are a lot of elements that can be edited, consider using Color palettes to make easier for the user.

[IuMaker]

Thanks for testing it, I knew that the advanced options didn't work on iOS, the problem is that they work for Desktop & Android (maybe it's a problem with the browser). I was hoping that it was only in my wife's phone, but I haven't been lucky.

The vectorization is probably where I've spent most of the time regarding creating a UI to tweak it. I already implemented two vectorization libraries, the results aren't perfect, but they are the best I could get with what I found. It would be great if anyone know a better technology (thanks in advance!). Great idea, using color palettes could fix the issue of having to tweak too many colors, I will put it in my TODO list!

[kofc]

I like the overall flow of the website, the steps are easy to follow. That being said, the vectorization part was a bit confusing, and losing a bit of details wasn't ideal.

Consider adding more information for the vectorization step. I liked the tour though.

[IuMaker]

I considered running the vectorization before showing any of the elements to the user, so the user would be editing everything as a vector. I didn't go with this approach since the results of the vectorization weren't consistently good for all the images. But I'm aware that the vectorization step is the step that requires more work, the problem is that it already has received most of it.

The main options for the vecotrization are: - Straighter lines / smoother curvy lines - Less noise / more details [Advanced] - Number of colours: simpler vector / more details [Basic]

I even looked for deep learning approaches to vectorization but they tool a really long time to run: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06441