When building products on the web, mobile or desktop, you often needs favicons (logos of websites). Icon Horse was born from that need – one simple URL for any given website you can embed in your app. And if it can't find an icon, it serves a fallback!
Hi friends,
I'm Mike, a freelance web/mobile developer. One day, I was working on a project and needed an easy way to fetch favicons (logo icons for another website).
Unfortunately, this is a bit of a pain – there's many different icons with different sizes & they're found in different places (Twitter thread I made a while back about it). And if the site cannot be found or has no icons you could end up with a big ugly broken image!
All I wanted to do was to embed a little icon of a website, why was it so complicated? 😢
And so I started working on what has become Icon Horse (side note, did you know there's yoursite.horse domain names? I didn't). It's designed to be like Gravatars but for websites. It can be used anywhere, like in your own websites + mobile or desktop apps.
Plus, if the site is unreachable or has no icons, no problem! Icon Horse serves a fallback icon (paid users can even customise the fallback!), so you never have a broken image!
Anyways, let me know what you think! Feel free to give it a try. You don't even have to sign up 😘
Have a great day!
@mtimofiiv@stewup Thanks Stewart! I've just gone onto the site to give it a go. I'm super impressed by it - it's super intuitive and quick, and solves a niche that not many people have thought to solve. Really great peace of tech here.
Love how there's a "How to use" part of the website as well. It's so great to see a product with a crystal-clear proposition that delivers. Great work Mike.
Wow this is great! I'm always searching the web for favicons when I do Greenr Mockups. I'll check you guys out. By the way we are launching tomorrow so dial back in!
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