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High resolution logo for any domain or stock ticker

by wlj on 6/6/24, 6:06 PM with 17 comments

  • by maxchehab on 6/6/24, 7:13 PM

    This is a great backlink play, kudos
  • by baobun on 6/6/24, 6:57 PM

        The page you were looking for doesn't exist.
    
        You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.
    
    After typing something in the box and clicking button.
  • by TuringNYC on 6/6/24, 6:48 PM

    I like this! Curious if you pre-cache all public tickers or if you are trying to do this real-time using crawlers at time of request?
  • by ctphipps on 6/6/24, 7:15 PM

    I’m seeing a square favicon/app icon, not really an official company logo. Should there not be an option for the actual logo?
  • by pimlottc on 6/6/24, 6:49 PM

    There should be some sort of message if there's no results. It just clears the input box.
  • by thesurlydev on 6/6/24, 7:17 PM

    I use something similar that's offered for free: https://clearbit.com/logo

    It would be interesting to know how your solution is different.

    Feature request: offer high resolution vector format like SVG.

  • by codersfocus on 6/6/24, 6:55 PM

    I thought this would be an AI app that would rely on the domain name and/or website crawl to infer an aesthetic, and then create a prompt that would be fed to a generative image transformer
  • by pimlottc on 6/6/24, 9:54 PM

    The result for FORD is a broken image:

    https://logo.synthfinance.com/v/ticker/FORD

  • by mreome on 6/6/24, 8:02 PM

    It doesn't appear to work for google subdomains. For keep.google.com gives a very blurry google logo with the edges clipped off. For mail.google.com the result is a broken image link.
  • by mungoman2 on 6/6/24, 7:30 PM

    What is the source for the logos? They are sometimes jpg with bad compression artifacts.
  • by astrodust on 6/6/24, 8:02 PM

    Free!*

    * User assumes all liability for use as these are almost exclusively registered trademarks.

  • by RIMR on 6/6/24, 7:35 PM

    So it seems that you found a database of PNG images associated with stock tickers, and added favicon scraping, and then put it together with the false promise of "high resolution logos", when I get severely mixed results and a lot of errors when it can't handle a favicon.

    I mean, it works, good job at that at least, but it doesn't work well and it doesn't seem useful.