Stop Paying for Logos: Build Your Own with This Open-Source Generator
Every side project needs a logo, but not every developer has the budget for a designer or the desire to learn complex design tools. What if you could generate a professional-looking logo in seconds, for free, and even see how it's built? That's the promise behind logocreator, a new open-source project that's quickly gaining traction.
What It Does
logocreator is a free, open-source AI logo generator. You provide a text prompt describing the logo you want, select a style (like abstract, mascot, or minimalist), and it generates a high-quality image for you. It’s powered by the Flux Pro 1.1 model running on Together AI, which is specifically tuned for creating clean, usable graphic assets.
The hosted version at logo-creator.io lets you try it instantly, while the GitHub repo provides all the code to run your own instance.
Why It's Cool
The real magic here isn't just the AI—it's the stack and the open-source nature of the project. This isn't a black box SaaS product; it's a fully transparent, hackable tool built with a modern developer-friendly stack.
- Modern Tech Stack: It’s a Next.js app with TypeScript, uses Shadcn/ui and Tailwind for styling, Clerk for auth, and Upstash for rate limiting. For any dev, this is a fantastic reference architecture for building a full-stack AI application.
- No Vendor Lock-in: Since it uses your own Together AI API key when self-hosted, you control the costs and the data. You're not tied to a proprietary service.
- It Actually Works Well: Many AI image generators struggle with text and coherent logos. Flux, trained specifically for design tasks, does a surprisingly good job at creating usable, stylistically consistent logos from a simple prompt.
How to Try It
The easiest way is to just head over to the live demo and start generating. You get a number of free generations to test it out.
If you're a developer who wants to tinker or run your own version, cloning and running it is straightforward:
git clone https://github.com/Nutlope/logocreator
cd logocreator
npm install
Create a .env file, add your Together AI API key (TOGETHER_API_KEY=your_key_here), and run npm run dev. You're now running your own personal logo studio.
Final Thoughts
As a developer, this project is a double win. It's an immediately useful tool for whipping up a logo for your next README.md, and it's an excellent learning resource for how to integrate a powerful AI model into a clean, production-ready web app. The fact that it's open-source means you can see exactly how the rate limiting is implemented, how the prompts are structured for the AI, and how the results are handled. It’s a practical demo of modern web development meets practical AI.
The roadmap includes even more useful features like SVG export and a user dashboard for logo history, making it a project worth starring and watching.
Check out the code and contribute on GitHub: Nutlope/logocreator
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