Show HN: Get any domain's brand data via API

6 days ago (brand.dev)

How do you handle bigger brands like Yamaha, Samsung, etc that have businesses in a wide range? Yamaha music branding is much different from Yamaha motorbikes, for example.

  • At the moment subdomains work just fine and are separate however it's not perfect since you can use an alternative route on the same domain with different branding.

    A work in progress to be honest.

Why don’t you have a demo where someone can enter a website and see a JSON response? I signed up on mobile to test it out but you dumped me into a settings page.

  • I do! You have to create your API key then the playground appears on the developer portal.

    The fact you couldn't find it means i need to change something, will start auto generating the keys upon signup.

    • Update: I made it so anyone signing up from now on doesn't have to click the "generate api key" button and instead can hit the API playground right away.

      Cheers!

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While I don't think I'm the target audience for this, the quality of landing pages these days is fantastically impressive.

Congrats on the slick look. Can I ask if you made it yourself or got external help here?

Happy to answer any questions!

  • What are you doing to prevent phishing scammers from using your service to create fake login pages en masse? This has plagued similar services to yours.

    How can brand owners opt out of your service's infringing their intellectual property rights in their logos?

    • > What are you doing to prevent phishing scammers from using your service to create fake login pages en masse? This has plagued similar services to yours.

      I check what websites are fetching the logos constantly and block any that seem malicious including canceling their api keys.

      > How can brand owners opt out of your service's infringing their intellectual property rights in their logos?

      I fetch publicly available assets for any brand, i'm not passing them off as my own. Let me know what gave you that impression please :)

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Nice idea. Have you tried it with sports teams?

  • If they have a website then it should work out of the box! Curious why you thought of sports teams though?

    • How often do people need a brand data in quantities they couldn't just look up manually? If I just need Nike and no one else, this site, while useful, isn't so useful so as to bed to really bother for a one off. But if we're making a fantasy football/whatever app, and need branding for every single team, this would be a great help.

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