timjones

Author here. Wanted to give some background and the TLDR version.

I’ve never been great at design; the idea of designing a logo I was proud of has always seemed daunting.

Over the last few months, I’ve been hacking away at a few side projects, all web apps. In doing so, I put together a repeatable process for designing an above-average logo as a non-designer.

I break it down into 4 steps:

1. Choose a color palette - I stumbled upon this site called Colorhunt (https://colorhunt.co/) on ProductHunt awhile back.

2. Choose a Google Font - I find it easiest to start by Googling for some articles where authors list their favorites.

3. Find a logo mark - I’ve used free icons on Flaticon. You need to include an attribution link for your free icons, but I don’t mind doing that for side projects.

I recently discovered that if you download an SVG file, you can import it into a design tool like Figma and edit it!

4. Combine logo text and mark in Figma

For you non-designers out there, how do you make your logos?

Hi all! OP here.

Here’s the Github Link in case you missed it in the article - https://github.com/Dino-SaaS/Argon.

I have an engineering background but I'm not a designer. So when I discovered that there were all these awesome Bootstrap themes out there - with huge libraries of pages and components - I got excited.

Rails is my framework of choice, but I couldn’t find any solid tutorials for integrating a Bootstrap theme into Rails. After figuring it all out, I decided to share and open-source the result.

I’d love to hear from all of you:

- Have you used a Bootstrap theme? What did you like/dislike? If not, why not?

- What's missing from my tutorial?

- What would you want to see next?

Sorry for missing this!

Right now, it is up to the student to make sure they abide by the rules set forth by their landlord for subleasing. Typically this is just filling out a form telling them who will be living in the property, and in some cases, an additional fee. We would prefer to keep the legal responsibilities on the student, but will work towards making it as easy as possible to facilitate transactions and contracts with the subletter online.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Definitely check out http://readme.io. Their docs look beautiful and set-up is a breeze.

Thanks for the compliments on the interface!

College students don't use Lovely for off-campus housing - the best properties don't need to be advertised beyond a property manager's website. We've been more heavily focused on solving the renter's needs to-date, and focus on bubbling up those properties that other websites don't have. For now, we provide free leads to property managers, so that value is obvious.

College landlords often rely on co-signers (parents), and many perform background checks on both the renter and the co-signer. There are certain areas in college towns where literally every property is rented by a student. If a landlord purchases a house in that area, they understand that their renters will almost definitely be students. Demand for these properties is so high that they are almost guaranteed 100% occupancy every year, so it's still an attractive investment.

I'm glad you think we're useful!

Our number one focus is solving the student problem. We don't intent to take responsibilities away from these agencies, but rather to make it easier to fulfill them. We make it easier for them to fill their properties faster at no cost to them. Generally property management companies have received this very well.

Thanks!

As with anything, it's been challenging for some and rather easy for others. Our success so far is partially due to the fact that we have existing relationships with a ton of landlords. They know we send them leads and already trust our brand.

Most landlords in our markets don't use much software. We're primarily renter-focused, starting with lightweight tools focused on helping smaller property managers. Again, our existing relationships and the fact that we're already generating a significant percentage of their leads really help our ability to get property managers on board.

Thanks Mike!

All sublets are posted by our users. We haven't had to scrape from other sources.

Airbnb doesn't typically have a ton of supply in most of our smaller college towns. We get a lot of sublets posted partially because there aren't a lot of great resources outside of Craigslist.

Cribspot - Ann Arbor, MI Full-time Front-end Engineer (First engineering hire) https://www.cribspot.com

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We're a team of 5 recent graduates (two engineers) making it easy for college students to find, lease, and pay for college housing, and have big plans for this fall and beyond.

We're looking for a full-time front-end engineer. Our front-end is built with CoffeeScript, Ember.js, and Sass. The ideal candidate is familiar with Ember and is dangerous with at least one other front-end framework. We want someone who is as passionate as we are about new technologies, someone who gets excited about being the third member of a team building better products than billion dollar competitors.

If you're interested or want more info, shoot me an email at tim [at] cribspot.com

Cribspot - Ann Arbor, MI - https://www.cribspot.com

Full-time - Lead UX/UI Designer

Cribspot is a platform for college students to search, sign, and pay for off-campus housing. Over 50,000 college renters have used our platform since September. We're based in Ann Arbor and recently won the Techweek Detroit Launch Competition (http://www.xconomy.com/detroit/2014/05/23/cribspot-wins-tech...). We're gearing up for massive expansion this fall, along with a brand new rent payment product. We're a team of five people in our low 20s.

We're looking for a Lead UX/UI designer to take charge of all aspects of our front-end user experience. The ideal candidate also the HTML/CSS knowledge to make their designs come to life.

Compensation is very competitive and includes generous equity. Email me at tim@cribspot.com for more information.