Jeffrey Desenfans

Jeffrey Desenfans

Founder Studio Des Graphic Design

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Maker History

  • BrandGuideMaker
    BrandGuideMakerAgency-grade brand guidelines without the agency price tag.
    Aug 2026
  • PDF Print Checker
    PDF Print CheckerKnow if your PDF is print-ready in seconds. 100% local.
    Jul 2026
  • QuoteBuilder
    QuoteBuilderAI-powered quote builder with instant EU/KBO company search
    Jul 2026
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    Joined Product HuntJuly 26th, 2026

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1mo ago

How did you come up with your logo, naming and branding? (Vision behind it.)

A day ago, I was talking to a friend about logo design.

TL;DR: how the Apple logo came to be and how it wasn t always the bitten apple we know today.

The first concept was actually Newton sitting under a tree.

Is spending $2,000+ on design agencies a waste for pre-revenue startups?

There s a massive divide in the builder community right now:

Group A: "Ship fast with a 5-minute logo. Visual consistency doesn't matter until product-market fit."

Group B: "First impressions are everything. If your brand looks amateurish, nobody trusts your product."

I built BrandGuideMaker because I believe founders deserve agency-grade brand structure from day one without burning thousands of dollars of runway on designers.

I built BrandGuideMaker to stop startups from burning thousands on agency brand manuals.

Here's the issue: Start ups don't start their brand right because they don't have the funding yet.
Then they scale. The situation worsens.

The idea is pretty straightforward: you upload your logo, set your brand strategy (story, vision, tone of voice), and pick your colors and fonts. Our engine automatically calculates safe zones, plots unacceptable usage, formats CMYK/HEX color systems, and outputs a clean, 13-page print-ready vector PDF in under 2 minutes.

We ve included a live preview studio so anyone can build and test their brand book right away before exporting.

I d genuinely love to hear your thoughts! How do you currently manage brand consistency across your projects? What features would make your workflow easier? I ll be hanging out in the comments all day to answer questions and take feedback!

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