launchly

Potentially very useful site. I love the logo, did you have that designed by someone? Searches are fast and seem to be accurate from the couple that I tried. Heck I think I even found an icon I want to use for launchly!

I like how it lists other sizes/versions of an icon but I think it would be handy if it told you what those sizes are in pixels. I mean I can tell it's "about" X x Y but if I need something that's exactly 22x22 it would be nice to see those dimensions.

The simplicity of the landing page is great and "google-esque" which is a good thing. The auto-complete is also very handy.

Wow, I loved it! Easy to use and very helpful... ++

I completely agree. Although, I must admit that the licenses on icons have confused me a great deal in the past. Could you provide a translation on what each license means? What that means is, if I write an application or a web page, yet the icon is under the GPL license...can I use it without making my program or web page GPL'd?

That could be very helpful, like a summary "translation" of what the license really implies for normal people. Who wants to think about MIT vs GPL vs LGPL vs whatever.

Your site is awesome! I love the easy search and as someone else put it, the "google-esque" feeling. I agree with the others that one thing missing is the "translation" of the licenses. Great idea and site!

Hi everybody!

Thank you for the kind feedback - don't hold back on the more negative parts also.

Regarding "translations" of the licenses then this will probably be the next thing that will be added.

For launchly: The logo was designed by Turbomilk (www.turbomilk.com) and a logo cost $1850. I think you should consider this even though it's a bit for a startup. It really helps with at good logo when your site has a simple layout with few colors:

http://turbomilk.com/services/rates/

I use this site all the time, very useful!

My only suggestion for improvement is to continue to get more and more icons.

Also maybe store the users preferences (Such as Icons per page) in a cookie so that they don't always have to select how many icons per page they want to see.

Otherwise best Icon site out there.

I'm working on supporting user profiles where you can save settings, see download and search history etc. It will launch in august i hope.

I love the idea but how on earth does it interpret the search terms? I entered "free" and got cartoon fawns as a result...?

@justin

It searches for exact match first - if any icons have 'free' as a tag, they will be shown first. Next it does a search for 'free' in broad match (with wildcards in both ends) - that means the icons for 'freebsd' (a linux verison) was shown in the search results. Since there are no icons for with the tag 'free' you got the 'freebsd' icons as search results.

I will add a little notice in the search results which tells the user when there are no exact matches.

Hope that helps.