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I run a side (open source) project called Iconduck (https://iconduck.com). It collects and makes open source icons, illustrations and graphics available to download in various formats.

The goal is to collect sets from across the web (atm, mainly Gumroad and GitHub) that have open source licenses that allow for them to be available on a central site.

I then use a service called Typesense (https://typesense.org/) to make these all searchable.

It's a scratch of mine that I wanted to itch, and it has pretty strong usage (along with a limited user base; around 1k signed up users).

It's a fun project to work on, and I'd love help on this. Anything from design, front-end, back-end, product or marketing.

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Any particular reason on using png instead of svg directly to display images.

I tried to copy as well as open in new tab, got checkered.png instead. With noun project for example, one can right click and copy the image link, which can be pasted on drawio.

Using PNGs because there's some cross-browser issues with displaying SVGs from a number of the open source sets that I've collected. Rather than going icon by icon to resolve those (which isn't feasible), I render a PNG, make the PNG downloadable (via the button), and make the SVG downloadable (also via the button).

Could probably make it so you can right-click the image and open it in a new tab. Will take a look at that :)

1. Thanks for a wonderful site. It's the best of its kind

2. I hope you're not paying for hosting, since places like Cloudflare and Netlify host static sites for free, and I think yours probably qualifies

3. It's free--what would you need marketing help for?

4. Have plans to monetize somehow? I can imagine a couple of ways you could do so.

1. Thanks that's v kind :) 2. A bit complicated, but it's not an added financial burden :) 3. I'd love to grow it, the API, and a bunch of other things related to it. 4. Yeh there are some routes, but for the time being, I'd love to have it serve as an open source resource for people.

Let me know if you'd want to contribute: oliver@iconduck.com

Are you aware of thenounproject.com? It looks like your project is branching out into more than icons? Edit to add: just visited thenounproject.com again and looks like they added photos to their database.

Yep I know of them. They're gr8. We're just positioned differently (I'm much more interested in having everything be open source).

I'd like to know a little more and possibly contribute. I come from a design background, but I'm a full stack engineer now so I like to dabble in different things from time to time.

Yeh happy to chat. Wanna send over an email? oliver@iconduck.com

Cool, might start using this instead of svgrepo

Wow, nice, i am front end developer, i would love to join you on this

That’d be dope. Send over an email? oliver@iconduck.com

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