Icon Horse

Maker

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!

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4yr ago

Stewart Barrett

@mtimofiiv Wow - This is awesome, I wonder if we can put it in our product. I'm going to fetch the PM now....

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4yr ago

Kay Pengelly

@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.

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4yr ago

Mike T

Icon Horse

Maker

@stewup Sounds great! Feel free to reach out if you need any assistance or have any feedback! 🙂

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4yr ago

Mike T

Icon Horse

Maker

Thanks @kay_pengelly! Glad you liked it – this was certainly the most laser-focused product I've ever worked on! 🙂

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4yr ago

Jeremy Bradley

Encrypted Image Filtering App

@mtimofiiv Great idea, Mike! Good luck with your launch.

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4yr ago

Gabrielle Bourret-Sicotte

Greenr

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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4yr ago

Mike T

Icon Horse

Maker

@gabrielle_bourret_sicotte thanks, hope you get to use it! Also good luck with your launch! I’ll check it out 🙂

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4yr ago

Gabrielle Bourret-Sicotte

Greenr

@mtimofiiv Thanks Mike :) We have launched now go check us out!

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