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Folyo
Company blog · blog.folyo.medesignbusiness
Folyo is the company blog at blog.folyo.me, writing about design and business. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “The $5 Logo”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Design and startup posts, including a $5 logo piece, a design roundtable for WeekPlan, and a guide to budget design for startups. HN readers cite these when discussing designers and product feedback.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The $5 Logo3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-06-17
- The Startup’s Guide to Budget Design2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-31
- Design Roundtable: WeekPlan2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-13
What Hacker News says?
I know Sacha is still working on it, yup! His recent post on the $5 logo got a lot of traction: http://blog.folyo.me/the-5-dollar-logo/
Comment linking /the-5-dollar-logo/
on “Show HN: Bootstrappers.io – A community for business bootstrappers”Submitted "How much does a website cost?" – a survey of web designers as a story · 241 points
HN discussionSorry if the post wasn't clear. The 1k to 10k budget is not just for a logo, it could be for the whole app too. The idea of this post is more to say "if this is your budget, here are the options that are available to you" rather than give out precise costs for different jobs (which is hard to do, but I gave it a shot here: http://blog.folyo.me/how-much-does-a-website-cost-and-other-... )
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on “The Startup’s Guide to Budget Design”Submitted The Startup’s Guide to Budget Design as a story · 154 points
HN discussionAs a designer who's launching his own business ( http://folyo.me ), I can certainly identify with this. But I also know that it's easy to be blinded by the new entrepreneur's enthusiasm and see the world through rose-colored glasses. Whether you're a designer or developer, starting your own company or project is not for everybody and has numerous downsides. For example since launching Folyo, I've spent almost no tim…
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on “Web designers should start companies, not freelance”Submitted GroupTalent on Finding, Picking and Hiring Designers as a story · 22 points
HN discussionPlease, I would love to have more feedback on http://weekplan.net . Sacha Greif organized a design roundtable about WeekPlan a few weeks ago: http://blog.folyo.me/design-roundtable-weekplan/ I would love to hear your advices on "how I could increase the perceived value of the product". Thanks!
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on “Offer HN: I'll review your Product/UX for free (for my blog)”Submitted Amazing San Francisco & Bay Area UI/UX Designers as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThere is a great new article on the folyo.com blog, that provides some great places to look based on budget http://blog.folyo.me/the-startups-guide-to-budget-design/
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on “Ask HN: Where / How do you find designers for your projects?”Submitted The $5 Logo as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design case study: Perch redesign as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Folyo Case Study: FamilyLeaf (YC W12) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being a Professional as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The $5 Logo as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted UX vs UI: What Type of Designer Should You Be Hiring? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design Roundtable: WeekPlan as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You’re Not A Pig: How To Avoid Commoditization, With Brennan Dunn (podcast) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can Clients Trust You? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The #1 Reason Why You're not a Great Designer: You're not Charging Enough as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Job boards are broken, and it should be obvious why as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design Case Study: Awessome.com as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Case Study: the Design of ReelSurfer (YC S12) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A real-world survey of "mobile first" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Which country has the best designers? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to pick a designer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Job boards are broken as a story · 1 points
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