Iconduck
Creative
icon library
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
8 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.
Execution: 1 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful collection and good search results
From 3 comments
Website looks great and returns icons for all my searches. I hope I never have to use flaticon again after this. Their database of icons is amazing but website is so annoying.
superasn on HNLove it! Search is a little slow for me (instant search would be great!) but other than that, awesome! Especially for a "first stab!"
breck on HNhere's my icon cheatsheet with a bunch of similar projects if it helps anyone solve their icon problems https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#general--misc…
swyx on HN
Good first attempt
From 1 comment
Love it! Search is a little slow for me (instant search would be great!) but other than that, awesome! Especially for a "first stab!"
breck on HN
Objections
Search is slow and lacks instant search
From 1 comment
Love it! Search is a little slow for me (instant search would be great!) but other than that, awesome! Especially for a "first stab!"
breck on HN
Icon set list page returns 404 and licenses page shows few sets
From 1 comment
Could you list all those 132 icon sets somewhere - iconduck.com/sets returns 404 and in iconduck.com/licenses you are showing only 1-2 set for each license.
rayrag on HN
Downloads did not work in some browsers
From 1 comment
Clicking Download on any of those icons doesn't seem to do anything. I'm using Chrome on Window 10. Cancel works.
wiradikusuma on HN
Requests
Recolor icons and batch download by group
From 2 comments
Great job on the launch - I'm always trying to grab new icon sets. I'd love to be able to re-color icons (e.g. black --> white) and group them for batch downloads.
t_smith on HNAwesome-- could you provide a download link for the entire icon set? I'd prefer to have a local copy and find as-needed.
aigoochamna on HN
PNG download at chosen size
From 1 comment
One feature I like on flaticon that you are missing is the option to download a png at a certain size. SVG is great, but if I want something quick to drop into an iOS app,…
chrisBob on HN
Copy SVG button
From 1 comment
Can you add a Copy SVG button to them? HeroIcons [1] has this and I didn't know what I was missing until I started using it. I can basically just copy and paste directly into…
genmud on HN
Advanced search within a single icon set
From 1 comment
Great site, would love to see advanced search, especially to search within a specific icon set. Often I am building a graphic and want consistency across images, so finding an…
spatley on HN
Questions
Will the site be open sourced
From 1 comment
Will you be open sourcing the site itself?
sanketdasgupta on HN
Why the name duck
From 1 comment
why "duck" though?
shuringai on HN
Are the DuckDuckGo icons open source
From 1 comment
I was surprised the site did not have an icon, so I searched for duck and found the duckduckgo icon. are you sure it's opensource ?
slim on HN
Alternatives named
The Noun Project
From 1 comment
Check out: https://thenounproject.com/ This site has a similar goal, with a huge amount of icons already available, free to download.
amelius on HN
Flaticon
From 1 comment
> Regarding flaticon: what about the site do you find annoying? This way I know what to avoid ;) Oh so many things but being OSS I think you'll side-step most of them by virtue.…
superasn on HN
Icones
From 1 comment
Lots of Open Source icon libraries here: – https://icones.netlify.app/ There are also two others that aren't on the list above: – https://github.com/bytedance/IconPark (Apache) –…
marc_io on HN
IconSearch
From 1 comment
Shameless plug for IconSearch [1], my similar site focused on SVG icons on Github/Gitlab. You can see my list of icon sources [2], and website source is available [3]. [1]…
Fileformat on HN