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Why is the logo the same as bun.sh?

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They aren't. https://imgur.com/a/tNRuEpb

But how much variance can you reasonably expect from a logo based on an anthropomorphized bao bun?

Maybe bao in a steamer. If the boa are the secrets the steamer is the vault.

> If the boa are the secrets the steamer is the vault

I think the inside of the bao is the secret, and the bao is the vault.

> how much variance can you reasonably expect from a logo based on an anthropomorphized bao bun

Agreed. Try this: do an image search for cute cartoon bao bun

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cute+cartoon+bao+bun&iar=images&ia...

There are, completely as expected, a bunch of different pictures that fundamentally look very similar.

>But how much variance can you reasonably expect from a logo based on an anthropomorphized bao bun?

Not much. But taking a similar logo from a current hot / hyped tech in a similar vertical just strike me as poor taste.

Bun is kinda DOA last I was asked to evaluate it...

How so?

Huh? Please elaborate. Even just bullet points from your eval would be appreciated. There are any number of reasons not to go with the bleeding edge, but bun's solving for ESM / CJS is kind of a big deal. V interested to hear meaningful objections.

How long ago?

I have no idea why you would say this. Genuinely confused.

They're so unrelated though it seems like it's not a big deal. If they were playing in the same space I'd agree.

It's not the same.

There are minor differences, but the similarity is indeed striking.

It's an anthropomorphized bao bun. How much variance can you expect?

https://imgur.com/a/tNRuEpb

It looks extremely similar to me. I would not be pleased if I was behind Bun.

The only real similarity is that it's a bao bun with a face, which Bun didn't create the concept of.

Who cares? It’s not like they’re in a remotely related niche. Nobody’s gonna confuse the two.

Sounds like Bun chose a bad logo then. They're not going to own the concept of a bao bun with a face.

What about the concept of a window? Can anyone own that? Or, a cat octopus? How about a discarded piece of fruit?

There is nothing distinct about a window or piece of fruit. Obviously if you made an operating system called Windows and used a window as a logo that would be trademark violation, but there's nothing stopping me from opening John's Windows with the logo being a window.

Sure, a trivial strawman example.

But then, if you made not an OS but rather say, a search engine called “pane.io” and used a logo of a 4 pane window of different colors ?

I am open to being wrong here but I doubt it would have gone smoothly.

Haha, I thought the exact same thing.

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