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.
- 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)
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!
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.
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.
How often do people need a brand data in quantities they couldn't just look up manually? If I just need Nike and no one else, this site, while useful, isn't so useful so as to bed to really bother for a one off. But if we're making a fantasy football/whatever app, and need branding for every single team, this would be a great help.
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
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.
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.