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Show HN: $2 incremental pricing logo project

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Inspired by Logo Pizza, where they increased price with $20 for each logo? (saw this pass by some time ago here on HN)

http://logo.pizza/

Totally! We love what they are doing.

Awesome idea! Purchased at $164 - look forward to hearing back!

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"

Logodust/Metafizzy strike me as being on kinda the same page re: trying to give good things to the community at a low or 0 price point.

Actually makes more sense with 2$, as there will be many more cumulative purchases before the price reaches its eventual peak. Bit like penny auctions.

I think you're doing yourself a disservice. I remember coming across your portfolio (and possibly even speaking with your team, I don't recall) when I was looking to get a new logo made for a client. Now, if I'm ever in that situation again, how will you ever convince me to pay market rate for a logo when I know you've been doing them for $2, $4, $6, etc?

In other words, you're lowering the perceived value of your work.

Appreciate the thought. Here's how I look at it: our core service offers a bunch of different perks that this experimental service doesnt include like: more revisions, faster delivery etc. so when you are in a rush or want to bounce back and forth ideas, this service isnt the way to go.

Megabus famously offers $1 fares for early bookers. Everyone knows that the true fare value is not $1. Plus, this logo product isn't on par with their regular service, which includes unlimited revisions and goes for $450 - $650.

It's a solid marketing play.

Megabus still does something like this! For example, there are $5 tickets from Cincinnati to Chicago right now if you're willing to book about a month out.

Can anyone explain if the game theory behind this is sound? because that sounds like a pretty ridiculous "business model".

Does the price ever stop increasing or go down? Is this meant to be a temporary operation?

It's meant as a temporary experiment. But we're thinking of having a handful of random days during the year where the price resets.

I feel that it should simply reset after X days without any takers, thereby reflecting the market's ill-appetite for the increased price. Or perhaps the price should decrease by $2 each day without takers. Would be really interesting to then graph the price after several months, seeing where the market settled.

Sounds interesting but the problem then is that nobody will share it with friends. Since you gain an advantage by keeping it silent and take the low price offer when it resets. But I like the general thinking. Needs to be fleshed out.

How about a pressure system? Each purchase increases the price by $2, but each day that passes without a purchase lowers it by $2. Eventually it would reach some sort of equilibrium of how much people are willing to pay for a simple logo service, right? Cool idea though.

for low demand/supply markets this sounds like a great way to set your price point generally as a buisness!

You could have each logo price decrease by $2 per day it remains unsold. The starting price would follow the current rules, increasing $2 for every sale.

Each logo should naturally go for a fair 'market' price (for that logo), and presumably will eventually be sold by the time it reaches $2. It prevents the service usage from leveling off as the price goes too high: at some point, it is cheaper to pay for a custom logo designed to spec.

Plus it increases traction, especially for designers that need logos for clients: now there's incentive to come visit the page occasionally even if you don't currently need a logo, because there might be a gem sitting there for a good price.

The website looks terrible on Ultra Widescreen monitors. Maybe try it on two monitors and span the browser window over both? I think you got something wrong on styling.

Agreed, this is what it looks like on my screen.

http://i.imgur.com/hoyFicn.jpg

Same here in chrome on a big screen. In firefox it just stays black...

It takes ages to load too on mobile: couldn't get past the loading wheel; a shame...

Scrolling is also broken if your mouse is on the left-hand side of the page.

I like this idea -- it allows the seller to find an optimal price through what's basically an auction process. The early buyers get a "good" deal, and when sales level off, they can roll back the pricing a few dollars and know they've found their optimal market position.

I like the idea, but this does seem like a clickbait Show HN title.

Logos aren't being sold for anywhere close to $2, which is what a reasonable person would think before clicking.

It's more like "$2 incremental pricing logo project", though I admit it trades terseness for accuracy.

You are right. Edited title. Tnx

I am testing this at $130. I will follow up with a review on experience and end-result.

Making money at O(n^2 + n)

Sadly, the top comments are down at the bottom.

Perhaps the scoring algorithm is X=-X.

I'm not sure about your logo but the website is simply not that good. It takes quite a lot of time for me to load, its possible that its my network ( i live in Australia, we have horrible internet ) but the site should be as fast as possible regardless of where the person is located and many other more heavier websites are loading faster for me so this is an issue with your site.

The scroll bar is also broken, and the loading icon/indicator doesn't load for quite a bit of time so i never know whether the site is even loading, and if i should wait.

I would suggest taking a look at this issue just so its more available.

Do you the offer service aswell for logo design being made in both iOS and Android icon styles?

I would be tempted to hit it at this price, but want something I can get out into iOS and Android icon easily.

Absolutely. In the design brief you simply share some style examples and we'll get it done.

I'm curious here, how long do you typically spend on one of these logos?

My partner spent several years working as a freelance designer and typically a logo was a fairly lengthy process for a lot of businesses, and the bills would run up over $600-800 pretty quick + more $$ for assigning the copyright.

Unable to find the link, but this "type" of offer has been posted to HN before and to me is just starting to feel like spam.

EDIT: Here's the link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12488149

different organisation, same business model. That's just like saying that anybody who sells ads on their website is spamming HN because others have posted products that make money with ads.

In my opinion, the first time it was novel. HN is not a place to advertise business services, regardless of if they might be of use, a deal, etc.

This was, as noted by the poster, inspired by the post I linked to.

Stand by my position this is spam.

I suppose it's a good job that opinions are just that then.

I personally enjoyed this link.

I missed the other one first time around, so it doesn't feel anything close to spam to me. Maybe if I saw one of these everyday.

Out of curiosity. For your premium service, do you offer any discounts to open source projects?

It's not urgent so I won't be emailing yet, but I might in the future. Thanks :)

Inspired? it's a copy of logo.pizza! this article isn't really relevant. It seems like logodust's "open source logos" just stopped being released over time, and instead they are focusing on pure commercial activities.

it's not a copy. logo.pizza offered premade logos. here you have a briefing after purchase and you get a custom made one.

however, i dislike this kind of "services". it does not reflect the real value and work behind a logo. therefor future customer will have a distoreted idea on what a logo is worth.

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