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!