alexray

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   by alexray 5y ago

   Yeah, that's a great idea. We want to add previews soon. Right now, it's a human using our internal tools. We're making a lot of progress towards generating it with software, but aren't there yet.
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   by alexray 5y ago

   I'm not sure where they came from -- what browser/device are you using? We use Webflow for our marketing site, so I may need to go fix some settings in there. P.S. I wish I was cheeky enough to make that jab at freelancers ;)
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   by alexray 5y ago

   Thanks! Yeah, names are TOUGH. You should see all of the names we decided not to use for Parade.
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   by alexray 5y ago

   RE:ML - We pay designers and non-designers to describe a wide variety of marketing assets and use their output as the training data. It's a lot of work, but we try to compensate them well. RE:Ownership - you own what you create. We pla
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   by alexray 5y ago

   Thanks! Glad Parade was valuable for you!
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   by alexray 5y ago

   Great! Glad to hear it.
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   by alexray 5y ago

   Thanks! I'm excited to hear that, and glad you think it's amazing! It sounds like Parade could be a great fit for your side projects :)
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   by alexray 5y ago

   Yeah, I think you're exactly right re:"just having a few off-the-rack workflows that are easy to play with would be helpful". There really seems to be standard conventions that would work for most workflows, kind of like what
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   by alexray 5y ago

   That's a good point. We want to figure out a way to help with UI design in the long run, but for now, we're focused on branding. P.S. Have you read Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things ? Your comment "someone is d
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    by alexray 5y ago

    Ah, thanks for pointing that out. We'll get this fixed.
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    by alexray 5y ago

    Yeah, that's good feedback. We don't want to put down the idea of working with a designer later in your company. In fact, many of our users have grown their companies and hired designers to extend their brand into their applicatio
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    by alexray 5y ago

    Thanks so much! I love hearing that :)
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    by alexray 5y ago

    Yeah, that's something we want to improve. Thanks for sharing NewGlue - I like the way they do their example brand too.
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    by alexray 5y ago

    Thanks! Glad you like it. It's funny - we've heard the "I don't trust myself" sentiment often. We want to make you believe that your choices are great (and, most of the time, they are). We've thought about offe
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    by alexray 5y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion. We'll try to find a way to bring more of our product outside of the login wall. Creating a brand and getting a style guide is free. We charge in the hundreds-of-dollars range for the agency side of our busine
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    by alexray 5y ago

    Yep, that's very near term on our roadmap. Right now, you can download the Google Slides document that we make and have it work pretty well.
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    by alexray 5y ago

    Thanks so much!
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    by alexray 5y ago

    We're not yet, but we've explored it a bit. It seems like a great idea. We want to figure out a good way to make it work with a lot of the common frontend toolkits.
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    by alexray 5y ago

    Yeah, UI design is tricky. We haven't solved that yet, but would love to in the long run.
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    by alexray 5y ago

    Thanks! I'm excited to hear that. Give it a spin sometime and send feedback - the more feedback we get, the better our product will be :)
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    by alexray 5y ago

    Yeah, this is definitely true. It's not worth much time or money on design early on. You just need something credible -- sometimes we joke about the idea of "Minimum Viable Branding (MVB)", like an MVP. We think Parade gets y
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    by alexray 5y ago

    We're big fans of Umso too! Some of our users have created brand styles on Parade and built their website there.
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    by alexray 5y ago

    I'm glad you're interested -- based on how you described yourself, you're exactly the person we're building for. Looka is a great tool for creating a logo, and they're primarily focused on that -- and I've seen
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    Launch HN: Parade (YC S20) – Launch your company without hiring a designer

    179 points by alexray 5y ago|72 comments
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    by alexray 6y ago

    This game is so fun. My girlfriend and I play it pretty much every night. Sometimes the outcomes are kind of wacky - I've gotten last place with what I think is museum-quality art (well, at least my mom would like it) - but it's c