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Logo Pizza: Hot and ready logos for sale
- samfisher83 10y agoAs of 1.24 PST he has sold 27 logos for a total of 7560 if each logo costs 20 dollars more.
- btcboss 10y agoYou should make it so that the purchaser can have an option to sell their logo if someone else wants it more than them. Take a cut from the transaction
- PagingCraig 10y agoCan anyone tell me what he used to get the logos to animate when filtered? CSS? (I'm a newb)
- gregimba 10y agoLooks at seal logo... Looks at maria db...
- programminggeek 10y agoI was disappointed that this had nothing to do with any kind of Lego Pizza.
- rralian 10y agoThis is great! It's an interesting idea, a fun concept that isn't too serious, and in my opinion the work is really fantastic. Next time I need a logo I'm hitting up this guy/gal (I don't know what a metafizzy is).
- Jarwain 10y agoAs of 8:20EST he has sold 17 logos for a total of $5560. Calculated at $40 a logo until $400 per logo, then $20 a logo.
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- justinlardinois 10y agoI feel like a lot of these logos are generic enough that you couldn't possibly enforce your exclusive rights to them.
- mclovinit 10y agoI think it might be useful to cycle in new sold/unsold sets of logos to give the effect that sales are taking place and business is moving ahead. otherwise, it looks like no business is being done. also, maybe instead of "sold" something like "to be sold" might work to give the impression that it isn't off limits yet.
- DankeSchon 10y agoIt doesn't make sense for the price to go up after a purchase. Also I think most of those "sales" are fake. Most logos are really bad.
- oftenwrong 10y agoMore descriptive headline: "Logo Pizza: Hot & ready logos for sale"
- NKCSS 10y agoThis is an awesome idea with a very nice execution!
- giarc 10y agoThis is a great idea! I'd actually sign up for a mailing list to get notified when new logos are added. I'm aware of products like fiverr and 99Designs, but I'm worried about sinking a bunch of money into them only to get crap back. I like being able to view the logos and simply browse without any commitment.
- klinskyc 10y ago99Designs has a money-back guarantee if you don't like any of the logos. Not sure how good they are about actually honoring it. You get a lot of crap and super-generic logos, but (in my experience at least), there are a few good ones
- MichaelApproved 10y agoThe base option includes a money-back guarantee but you quickly learn that keeping the not guaranteeing a winner for your project will keep good designers away. I've worked with 99designs a few times and liked the outcome but potential customers should be aware that keeping the money-back option on your project and sticking with the base price will get you generic looking logos. If you want to attract quality designers to your project, you'll need to increase the amount you're awarding and guarantee the payment (opt-out of the money-back guarantee). Again, I liked working with 99designs but you'll have a hard time finding something unique and amazing at the $299 price with the money-back guarantee option. I'd recommend working with them but set your expectations accordingly.
- pc86 10y agoI've used 99D on behalf of about a dozen clients and the cheapest we've ever gotten a great logo for was about $1300. I'm sure some people have been happy with the lowest price point, but every time a client wanted the money back guarantee they ended up using. Every time I convinced them to opt out and spend a little more they were generally happy.
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- impostervt 10y agoPrice goes up $40 per logo sold? So, after you sell 10 more logos, it'll be ($40*10) + $120(current price) = $520 per logo? Seems like a strange pricing strategy. I guess it increases the "buy it now" urge, but at some point it will kill sales. I guess when it stabilizes you can just say "ok, that's what people are willing to pay for these". So perhaps it's a good way to explore pricing...
- wodenokoto 10y agoIt's down to + $20 now, so perhaps they are going to land on a fixed price.
- tronje 10y agoWhen I first opened the site, it was $120 per logo, with 2 logos listed when filtered for "sold". Now it's at $200 per logo, with 4 in the "sold" category. So yes, it looks like the price per logo is increasing by $40 every time a logo is sold.
- elboru 10y agoOne hour after your comment with 10 logos sold it says it will increase by $20: > Any logo: $420 . Price increases by $20 with each logo sold.
- nathanaldensr 10y agoI interpreted that to mean for each customer, but now you have me wondering...
- impostervt 10y agoThat's what I thought at first, but it says each logo can be purchased only once.
- have_faith 10y agoHe's sold 2 and the price hasn't gone up. I assume per person? edit: wrong assumption, just delayed response
- Grangar 10y agoI like it, throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks!
- 91bananas 10y agoMost of those logos remind me of 90's clipart programs on Windows.
- ctrlalt_g 10y agoThe 90's are in fashion at the moment, I believe.
- FilterSweep 10y agoThey're flat design! They are currently "trendy" in the front-end world, but for how much longer, I've been too far removed from front-end development to know. Here's an interesting read in the shift (semi-recently, mind you, 2013) [0] [0] http://www.ucreative.com/articles/design-wars-flat-design-vs-realism/ http://www.ucreative.com/articles/design-wars-flat-design-vs...
- kbr 10y agoJust increased to $200, nice!
- amelius 10y agoSome of those logos look familiar to me. Who says they don't infringe upon existing logos?
- tronje 10y agoWith the per-logo price increasing by $40 every time a logo is sold, the final logo will cost $2000. But I wonder if it'll get that far. At that point, can't you find a decent graphic designer and get a logo exactly to your liking? Quick edit: this is not a rethorical question, I honestly would like to know!
- cschmidt 10y agoI paid $750 to work with a freelance graphic designer (tywilkins.com), and have a very nice logo.
- MichaelApproved 10y agoIf you find something that fits well for your company, $2,000 can easily be worth it. Working with a designer to create a logo for you can be time intensive. There can be a lot of back and forth with the designer as you refine the logo to something you like. Avoiding that time can surly be worth it for many companies with the right budget. You can create a logo and pay a designer less than $2k but how much of your own time are you going to spend making that happen?
- awesomerobot 10y agoI think that might partially be the point. These seem to be a backlog of unused concept, and the designer has a CTA for custom work below. It's a marketing piece.
- johnward 10y agoTo be honest, I expected the ability to have a pizza cut into my logo.
- pram 10y agoWouldn't it make more sense that the price would go down as more are purchased, as the most popular logos are already taken? Is someone really going to pay $1000 for 'Mr. Grin'
- jaz46 10y agoI think he just wants to encourage people to buy some of the logos quickly while the the prices are cheap. Forces immediate action instead of waiting and thinking about it. I doubt there's any expectation that he'll sell all or even most of the logos in this fashion and it's certainly not revenue-maximizing -- but that clearly doesn't seem to be the goal.
- ISL 10y agoIf there's a logo there that you like, the upward-racheting price adds urgency and drives a 'need to pounce' lest a) it disappear, and b) the price increase. The author is pouring gasoline onto the impulse-buying fire. At the long end, there are plenty of people who might pay a premium for a logo from someone whose logos are so good that they sold 48 of them in a day.... The author/artist is clever.
- nolemurs 10y agoI think you maybe misunderstand the point of this web site. The designer has no interest in selling all or even most of the logos at the sort of market rate they could actually command. The website is much more useful as a portfolio/marketing tool than as an actual logo store. What the designer wants is for the price to rise high enough to prove that he can sell logos and to set expectations for clients who want custom work, while also guaranteeing that most of the logos go unsold thus keeping his portfolio active and engaging. If the price went down with each logo sold, he might never even get that first sale, and if he did, there would eventually be a snowball effect which would lead to everything selling out, and his no longer having such a neat attention-getting portfolio.
- sborra 10y agoThought the same thing, Cheap first picks and expensive leftovers doesn't sound so smart.
- bbernhard1 10y agoDoes the price increasing also goes for custom logos? I am really interested in a custom logo...but the price increasing thing would really make it less attractive ;-)
- awesomerobot 10y agoI'm certain this designer charges $1000+ for custom logo design.
- klausjensen 10y agoI absolutely love this experiment with the incremental pricing, which creates a sense of urgency. Lovely artwork as well.
- idsout 10y agoThey are allowed to use the bower logo? http://logo.pizza/img/custom-logos2.png http://logo.pizza/img/custom-logos2.png https://bower.io/img/bower-logo.svg https://bower.io/img/bower-logo.svg
- arcatek 10y agoHe only use it in the "custom logo" section where he showcases his works. Since he's one of its designers, according to https://bower.io/docs/about/ https://bower.io/docs/about/, I believe it's fine.
- Kiro 10y agoHe's the creator of the bower logo. It baffles me that you excluded the most obvious reason before ranting.
- idsout 10y agoI would hardly call my question ranting. I figured it was possible the author had created the logo, but I didn't know for sure.
- peteboyd 10y agoWe always have had a surplus of logos. When we design for a company, perhaps 3 to 5 decent ideas are sketched. Of course only one makes the final cut per client. We own any preliminary work, so we can offer these for use later. We would just change the name, revise slightly and change the color. Bam...new logo. What we did finally was revise the ones we like (25 to 50 initially) and include them for free as part of a new web design project. A lot of clients have bad logos that can ruin a design. So it helps our designs and clients brands. Clients could also purchase at a low flat rate if they liked one without a website. This has worked well too.
- coldcode 10y agoFirst reading the title I thought people were making pizzas with logos on them. Which would be a much more bizarre business.
- tedmiston 10y agoDid anyone else expect this to be pizzas sold at a discount offset by having a company's logo burnt into the cheese?
- smnplk 10y agoGreat idea. I'm stealing it. :D
- tedmiston 10y agoHalf-price pizzas? Take my money! That reminds me of Flag: free printed photo (free shipping too) just with a sponsor's logo printed on the backside. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flag-worlds-best-photo-prints./id1079826301?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flag-worlds-best-photo-print...
- wccrawford 10y agoCan I pay extra and have a custom image burned into the pizza instead? Would be great for parties. Reminds me of a local pizza place that will make the pizza in a heart shape for $2 more. Of course, my wife and I just had to buy one. The chef and the waitress actually went out of their way to let us photo it before cutting and everything. Way more than $2 additional work, IMO. If we weren't both dieting, we'd still be eating there quite often.
- derrekl 10y agoMaybe the owner doesn't know what the logos should sell for, runs this once, and then sets up a new site selling the logos for at or near the ceiling price from the unorthodox auction.
- apgwoz 10y agoSome of these look eerily familiar, and I wonder if they might infringe upon a Trade Mark...
- elmigranto 10y agoFor example: Pizza's Horse Mane — http://logo.pizza/horse-mane http://logo.pizza/horse-mane eSports organization Team Liquid — http://www.teamliquid.net http://www.teamliquid.net
- awesomerobot 10y agoAs long as no one uses that logo to start something associated with gaming it's likely different enough to not cause issue. It's a somewhat common style for horse iconography.
- ConnorG 10y agoThe sheriff looks too much like the logo for Natty Bo beer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bohemian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bohemian
- ChuckMcM 10y agoFun site, the magic is this one line: " Need a custom logo? Let’s chat! yo@metafizzy.co " The chance of you needing one of the pre-existing logos is small, the chance of needing a logo period is higher, and seeing the portfolio of logos gives you a starting point to imagine things. The only negative is that it might anchor you emotionally to a lower than average price if the current logo price is small enough. The web site concept though seems to be exactly like a clothing store putting last years clothes out on the side walk for "cheap" and just getting people walking by to think about it and come in and browse. Which solves Internet company problem #1, "Nobody knows I exist."
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoThe premade logos aren't even a bad idea: If you have a project, and you see a logo in the premades that fits well with it, than you may well buy it when you hadn't previously considered paying for a logo.
- dood 10y agoYes, this is primarily a neat marketing idea, surprising that HN seems to have collectively missed this so far! Guess the hive mind is having an off day.
- djsumdog 10y agoIt sorta reminds me of this one: http://www.horriblelogos.com/ http://www.horriblelogos.com/
- Jedd 10y agoWell they're much better than the generic/overused logos[1] from my previous favourite logo-related HN discussion[2]. Hilariously (for me) after I sent that link to my sister, she revealed the recent purchase of an alleged custom-creation - a 'rainbow link of people' style logo that was almost a replica of one from that generic set. Evidently logos are hard, but once you get past the biggest decision (should you bother to try to have one that reflects what you actually do / sell) finding a cheap one becomes much easier. [1] http://www.gtgraphics.org/genericlogos.html http://www.gtgraphics.org/genericlogos.html [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8071383 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8071383
- corndoge 10y agoWhat is stopping someone from just taking the logo? http://logo.pizza/img/happy-cat/happy-cat.png http://logo.pizza/img/happy-cat/happy-cat.png
- m4tta 10y agoI guess if you enjoy being sued for $X amount of dollars then nothing is stopping you.
- orthecreedence 10y agoA DMCA takedown notice, probably.
- trelltron 10y agoWhat's to stop you stealing anything?
- chrisper 10y agoMorals?
- awesomerobot 10y agoWhat stops you from calling your company Coca-Cola and using their logo?
- Fraterkes 10y agoYou get the illustrator files if you buy the logo, otherwise you only have a thumbnail.
- johns 10y agoThat's either a seal playing with a ball or a mermaid.
- mendelk 10y agoCute idea. Note that it was just changed to go up by $20 per logo sold, but that still doesn't really solve the economic problems posed by some of the comments.
- netfire 10y agoI'm wondering if it will continue to decrease as demand decreases. If the amount was eventually lowered to go up by something like $5, it might be sustainable for quite a while...
- noer 10y agoUsing a .pizza domain and using "Hot & Ready" in the tagline might make the casual consumer think these are logos made out of pizza, or are on pizza with cheese in the shape of a logo, or would have to do with pizza in general.
- dpc_pw 10y agoI like the idea of a website listing a lot of logos, me scrolling through them and picking something I need. But I wish new logos would be added continously, priced separately, and definitely price increase on something that did not sold in the past is ridiculous. :D
- elmigranto 10y agoI wish there was a price on sold logos, so I can see what those were worth to someone.
- triplesec 10y agoI wonder how many of the sales here are from this being on HN. It's a classic time-scarcity sales ploy, like the one-day sale websites. Don't fall for it.
- bbcbasic 10y agoPlus... I wonder how many of the sales are real :-) Scarcity and social proof in one hit, awesome. But who knows what really got sold?
- ColonelTrick 10y agoWhoever buys the "A-Ok" logo is going to have a very rough internationalization experience if they try to bring their product to Brazil...
- TimWolla 10y agoMy first reaction to that one was that it looked like Blender, the 3D software. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)
- swampthinker 10y agoCould you elaborate? Not sure what you mean.
- theGREENsuit 10y agoit's an obscene gesture, like the middle finger.
- swampthinker 10y agoHaha, learn something new everyday.
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- kriro 10y agoThe pricing model could be the logical conclusion to some basic behavioural economics insights. Feeling of a loss >> feeling of a win. Thus you create an ever present feeling of that potential loss (missing out on the lower price) which forces potential buyers to act to lessen that feeling of possible pain as opposed to the standard approach of selling based on the feeling of a win (my nice and shiny logo). This idea could probably also be leveraged to combat procrastination somehow. It also has that novelty factor of the pay per pixel advertising from back in the day. Neat :) I guess the only problem is that the last logo shouldn't sell easily (without adding more).
- jo909 10y agoThis makes it look like getting a logo is easy and quick. And it can be, probably. It's not my area of expertise, but I would expect there are some pitfalls just like with company names, app branding and other branding/trademark stuff. I would not want my logo to be too similar to somebody else, and researching that is probably tricky.
- leksak 10y agoThe person that made this site would probably be sued if he/she sold a logo to a company that's too similar to existing work, arguably not before the company itself gets sued. Hence, for new companies it's a gamble as the legal fees could put them out of business. Maybe there is a disclaimer somewhere on the site, but I haven't found it. Regardless, finding out whether or not a logo that you produced (or a design studio produced) is too similar to already existing work is difficult as images cannot be as easily searched as plain-text. This is hard for design studios too. Also, and this is speaking as a layman, but initiating such a legal affair probably requires a trademark.
- mikeryan 10y agoNot sure how this works against something like 99 designs which can get you a custom logo for $300-1200 bucks. https://99designs.com/pricing https://99designs.com/pricing
- j45 10y agoThis reminds me of stylate.com which was selling a logo and domain together for a reasonable price (hundreds instead of thousands). I'm not sure why the service ever shut down.
- j45 10y agoThis reminds me of stylate.com which was selling a logo and domain together for a reasonable price (hundreds instead of thousands). I'm not sure why the service ever shut down.
- olalonde 10y agohttp://www.brandcrowd.com/ http://www.brandcrowd.com/ has more selection and doesn't increase the price for every logo sold.
- kelvin0 10y agoBrilliant! However, they are quite pricey at 500$. I always thought making a custom logo would be expensive, but buying a ready made one could be much cheaper, any thoughts regarding the pricing?
- swagasaurus-rex 10y agoIt goes up by $20 every time somebody purchases a logo. Not really a sustainable business model, but it seems to be working wonders this morning with the increased traffic coming from Hacker News.
- sotojuan 10y agoPinboard did the same thing in the beginning. Of course, Pinboard increased by a fraction of a cent with each new subscription, not $20.
- rch 10y agoSeems like all the components are in place to do automated domain-name, brand, and logo generation.
- grillvogel 10y agowow $500 for some clipart what a deal
- icantdrive55 10y agoI have a business question. Has anyone on HN known anyone who actually bought a logo from this particular site? I think the site is great. I just question the sold logos, but then again I don't understand the buying mentality of most people. I'm not knocking the site, or logos; just doing research.
- hn_user2 10y agoI saw it in /new this morning. Only one logo had sold. Bought a logo for $80. Saw logo go to sold and price go up. I received the vector assets on the next page. Seems legit. Although probably short lived in its current form. Perhaps with some tweaks could become an ongoing concern. Not sure what I will use it on. I thought it was well done and I'm sure I'll put it to use at some point.