Show HN: Free Logo API – logos for any company or domain

Posted by lorey 23 hours ago

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The Clearbit Logo API finally went down yesterday after the HubSpot acquisition. I relied on it across several projects (heavily), so I built a drop-in replacement:

https://logos.apistemic.com

Key features:

- Free to use, no signup or API key needed

- Both companies and domain names work as input identifiers

- WebP format for smaller payloads and better cache hit rates

Stack: S3 for storage, heavily cached fastapi, Next.js for the site. Everything's behind Cloudflare for proper CDN/caching. This was the first time I tried to build something end-to-end from idea to deployment with Claude Code (Max) and I have to say, Opus 4.5 took it like a champ!

For the younger folks, here's what the old Clearbit API looked like: https://web.archive.org/web/20230920164055/https://clearbit....

Happy to answer questions about the implementation or hear your thoughts!

Web: https://logos.apistemic.com

X: https://x.com/karllorey

Comments

Comment by korabs 22 hours ago

Nice work, love the simplicity of the api! How do you handle logo sourcing? Is it favicons or something else?

Comment by lorey 15 hours ago

Yes, there's the <link rel="icon"...> an other specific tags providing far more options than the old favicons.

For anyone interested: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

Comment by norbert515 21 hours ago

That's awesome! Love that you can use it out of the box without annoying singups/keys :)

Comment by lorey 15 hours ago

Thanks, this is how I feel about this, too.

Comment by super_ar 17 hours ago

Really cool!

Comment by alexabs 22 hours ago

Awesome project!