# Sketch Logo AI

Aiolum story: https://aiolum.com/story/sketch-logo-ai/ · added 2026-11-05 · updated 2026-11-05

**In short.** Sketch Logo AI (Logo generator from sketches, Turkey): US$8.4K in the first four months, May 2024. Evidence grade D: reported, not verified. Team: 3 co-founders (Berk Elmas, Burak Uyar and Can Elbirlik); headcount after 2024 not published. Launched January 2024; still running.

Logo generator from sketches · Turkey · AI-native · team of 2 to 10 · still running · group: Photos and portraits

- Outcome: US$8.4K in the first four months, May 2024 (evidence grade of the headline number: D; headline in US dollars: 8400)
- Launch: January 2024; months from launch to the outcome: 4
- Team: 3 co-founders (Berk Elmas, Burak Uyar and Can Elbirlik); headcount after 2024 not published
- Outside funding: None (bootstrapped, as reported)
- Main factor: Search traffic
- Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 1, copyable pattern 3, capital needed 1
- Tags: AI-native, Small team, Bootstrapped, Running, B2C, Design

Links:

- Visit sketchlogo.ai: https://www.sketchlogo.ai/
- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6737916133
- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.okapitech.sketchlogoai
- Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/sketch-logo-ai

**The product.** A web app, with iPhone and Android versions, that turns a rough drawing plus a short text prompt into a finished logo, a 3D version of a logo, an illustration or a tattoo design. The output is a PNG or an SVG file, with a commercial license. The home page lists one Pro plan at US$19 a month or US$199 a year, with unlimited generations.

**Why it worked.** Most AI logo tools in early 2024 took only a text prompt. Sketch Logo AI let the user draw the shape first, so the result followed the user's own idea. Startup Founder Stories reported that the founders then put their effort into search pages and directory backlinks, not paid ads.

Evidence grades: A = disclosed by a public company, a filing or a payment processor, or verified by one; B = two or more independent reports agree, or a journalist confirmed it; C = a founder claim that no one else verified; D = reported, not verified: one founder claim or a third-party estimate with no second source; E = no revenue figure found, so the headline is a non-money fact and the other facts carry their own grades; calc = computed on this page from graded facts.

## Summary

Sketch Logo AI is an image-to-image generator for logos. An image-to-image generator is an AI model that takes a picture as input, here a rough sketch, and draws a new, finished picture that keeps its shape. The user draws, types a few words and picks a style, and the app returns a logo, a 3D version of a logo, an illustration or a tattoo design as a PNG or SVG file (a vector format that stays sharp at any size). It runs on the web at sketchlogo.ai and as phone apps from the Turkish company Okapi Yazilim.

Startup Founder Stories names Berk Elmas, a software engineer in Turkey, and his co-founders Burak Uyar and Can Elbirlik as the team; the Product Hunt page lists the same two co-founders. The product launched on Product Hunt on 25 January 2024 and finished 6th of the day. In a Reddit post in May 2024, as quoted by Startup Founder Stories, the founder said that the tool made about US$8,400 in revenue in its first four months, with no outside funding and no paid ads.

That figure rests on one founder post, quoted by one third-party site, so this page grades it D: reported, not verified. The same site also gives a monthly figure and a six-month figure, but the first is its own estimate and the second has no date; this page does not use them as facts. The product was still on sale in November 2026.

## Pricing

Sketch Logo AI prices read on the home page on 5 November 2026 (grade C); there is no separate pricing page

| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro, monthly |  | 19 | unlimited usage; shown next to a crossed-out US$29 |
| Pro, yearly | 16.58 |  | US$199 a year; shown next to a crossed-out US$299 |

One Pro plan, sold monthly or yearly. The home page shows crossed-out higher prices next to both (US$29 a month and US$299 a year) and says the yearly plan gives "2 months free". Both include unlimited usage, 15 preset styles, 2D and 3D generations, PNG and SVG output, private generations and a commercial license. The phone apps are free to install with in-app purchases; their prices were not read.

## How much revenue does Sketch Logo AI make? The numbers, graded

A three-founder logo generator that, by the founder's own account, made about US$8,400 in its first four months, quoted by one third-party site

| Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue in the first four months | about US$8,400 | D | Founder's Reddit r/SaaS post of May 2024, as quoted by Startup Founder Stories: the tool "cleared about $8.4k in revenue inside the first four months". The Reddit post itself was not read. | [1] |
| Average per month over those four months | about US$2,100 | calc | Calculated: US$8,400 divided by 4. Revenue was probably not even across the months. | [1] |
| Early daily revenue | around US$100 a day | D | Startup Founder Stories says the founder publicly stated "an early run-rate around $100/day". No date is given beyond the May 2024 post. | [1] |
| Monthly recurring revenue shown by Startup Founder Stories | US$3,000 a month, as of May 2024 | D | Not a founder figure. The site writes that it is "a conservative estimate, not a confirmed number", derived from the US$100 a day claim. Shown here only because the site's card displays it. | [1] |
| Revenue by about six months | toward US$25,000 (not verified) | D | Startup Founder Stories writes that revenue "kept climbing toward $25k by the six month mark" but gives no date and no quotation. Not used as a fact on this page. | [1] |
| Product Hunt launch | 25 January 2024, 6th of the day, 258 points | C | Product Hunt page. Startup Founder Stories says 5th of the day; the Product Hunt page shows "# 6 Day Rank". | [3, 1] |
| First paying customer | within about 72 hours of the launch | D | Startup Founder Stories, from the founder's post. | [1] |
| Team | 3 co-founders: Berk Elmas, Burak Uyar, Can Elbirlik | C | Startup Founder Stories names all three; the Product Hunt page lists Burak Uyar and Can Elbirlik on the team, and 2024 comments address the maker as @berk_elmas. | [1, 3] |
| Outside funding | none | D | Startup Founder Stories: "bootstrapped throughout, with no outside funding and no paid acquisition". | [1] |
| Price today | US$19 a month or US$199 a year | C | Home page, read 5 November 2026. | [2] |
| AI model | custom Stable Diffusion models on RunPod GPUs | D | Startup Founder Stories only. The company's own pages do not name the model. | [1] |
| Phone apps | iPhone 1.0.0 on 14 January 2025; Android with 5K+ downloads | C | App Store: 3 ratings, 2.7 out of 5, last version 1.0.6 on 14 February 2025, age rating 4+. Google Play: 4.2 stars from 51 reviews, updated 18 March 2025. Developer: Okapi Yazilim Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi. | [4, 5] |
| Blog output in the first six months | close to 29 posts | D | Startup Founder Stories. The blog in November 2026 lists posts signed "Oliver Taylo". | [1, 6] |
| Time from launch to the headline figure | 4 months | calc | Calculated: January 2024 to May 2024. | [1, 3] |

How to read this table: grade D is a single founder claim quoted by a third party, with no second source. Grade C is the company's own page or a store listing. A "calc" value (grade X) was computed on this page. No value is grade A or B.

## When did Sketch Logo AI launch, and how did it grow? Timeline

From a Product Hunt launch in January 2024 to phone apps in 2025. Each entry carries its grade.

- **Early 2024** (grade D [1]): Berk Elmas, Burak Uyar and Can Elbirlik start Sketch Logo AI, built with Next.js, Node.js and TypeScript, according to Startup Founder Stories.
- **25 January 2024** (grade C [3]): Product Hunt launch: 6th product of the day, 258 points. The launch post lists sketch to logo, 2D to 3D, image to art and logo to logo.
- **Late January 2024** (grade D [1]): First paying customer within about 72 hours, as quoted from the founder.
- **May 2024** (grade D [1]): In a Reddit r/SaaS post, the founder says the tool made about US$8,400 in its first four months, mostly from search traffic.
- **14 January 2025** (grade C [4, 5]): iPhone app version 1.0.0; an Android app follows, last updated 18 March 2025.
- **November 2026** (grade C [2, 6]): The site is live with the Pro plan at US$19 a month, an AI tattoo generator page and a blog.

## Why did Sketch Logo AI work?

### Sketch as input

A text prompt alone gives a generic logo. A sketch fixes the shape the user has in mind, and the model fills in style and detail. That one difference was the reason to choose this tool over text-only generators, as the Product Hunt launch post presents it.

### Search pages and directory backlinks

Startup Founder Stories reported that the founder called search the main source of customers: a bought boilerplate came with a list of over 150 directories for backlinks, and the team published close to 29 blog posts in six months. The site today has more than a dozen pages for one kind of logo each (bakery logo, gaming logo, real-estate logo), each a page that can rank for its own search term.

### One launch for the first customers

The Product Hunt launch in January 2024 brought the first paying customer within about 72 hours, as quoted from the founder. After that, search pages had to carry growth.

### One cheap plan

A single Pro plan, which the home page lists at US$19 a month, with unlimited use. A low price made trying the tool an easy decision for small business owners.

## How it was built

These details come from Startup Founder Stories, which summarizes the founder's own post (grade D), and from the company's pages and store listings (grade C).

- Custom Stable Diffusion models, an open image model family, hosted on rented RunPod GPUs (graphics processors rented by the hour).
- A Next.js front end with Node.js and TypeScript APIs behind it.
- A bought SaaS boilerplate (a ready-made starter code base) that came with a marketing guide and a list of over 150 directories.
- Output as PNG or SVG, with 4,300+ fonts, 500+ colors and 30,000+ icons in the editor, according to the home page.
- Phone apps for iPhone and Android, published in 2025 by Okapi Yazilim.

Sources: [1, 2, 4, 5]

## Who tried this before Sketch Logo AI, and why did they fail?

Three companies in our database of failed startups sold a creative or design tool and lost to larger or free products. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

The failed startups come from our database of dead startups, retold here in our own words; Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so they carry no evidence grade.

### FiftyThree (2011 to 2019; funding US$45M; cause: Competition)

- Promise: Turn an iPad into a digital sketchbook with the Paper app and the Pencil stylus.
- Why it died: Apple's own Pencil and Procreate's features made its product less needed.
- Record: 

### Pagedraw (2018 to 2021; funding US$1.5M; cause: Competition)

- Promise: Turn Sketch designs into React code automatically.
- Why it died: It bet on one design tool when designers moved to Figma, and developers preferred writing the code themselves.
- Record: 

### WebCake (2013 to 2016; funding US$120K; cause: Competition)

- Promise: Let people without technical skills build a good-looking website.
- Why it died: Wix and Squarespace had more features and more money.
- Record: 

## What changed

The three predecessors built a creative tool and then met a larger company that offered the same thing as part of a bigger product: Apple, Figma, Wix. Logo generation has the same risk. Canva, Kittl, Recraft and Google's free AutoDraw sit next to Sketch Logo AI on its own Product Hunt page, and general image models can draw a logo from a prompt.

What differs is the cost. FiftyThree raised tens of millions; Sketch Logo AI, as Startup Founder Stories reported, was bootstrapped on an open model and rented GPUs, so a few hundred customers can pay for it. The open question is whether search traffic for "AI logo generator" keeps coming to a small site once the large design tools rank for the same words.

## Can one person copy Sketch Logo AI now?

**Verdict: Yes, the method is open to one person.**

Nothing here needs money or a large team: an open image model, rented GPUs, a starter code base, one launch and many search pages. The hard part is the niche, since logo generators are now many, and a new tool needs its own input or output that others lack, as the sketch was here.

1. Find the input that other generators ignore (a sketch, a photo, a document) and build the tool around it.
2. Use an open model on rented GPUs so that the cost per image stays low.
3. Launch once on Product Hunt for the first customers.
4. Publish one page per search term ("bakery logo", "gaming logo") and collect directory backlinks.

**What is still open.** Other narrow design outputs where a sketch helps: tattoo stencils, embroidery patterns, signage, app icons.

## What could go wrong for Sketch Logo AI?

- **What is not verified.** The headline figure, about US$8,400 in the first four months, rests on one source: the founder's own Reddit r/SaaS post of May 2024 (reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1ct84b2), as quoted by Startup Founder Stories. This page did not read the Reddit post itself. The site's "$3K MRR" card is its own estimate, which it calls "not a confirmed number", and its line that revenue went "toward $25k by the six month mark" has no date or quotation. A reader could look for a payment-processor profile (for example on TrustMRR) or a later dated founder post.
- **Real brand logos used as examples.** On 5 November 2026 the home page showed the real Wendy's logo (alt text "Wendy's Logo", with the ® mark) under the heading "Redesign and generate any logo with AI logo generator", and the real Starbucks logo (alt text "Starbucks Illustration", with the ™ mark) as the sample for its 3D logo maker. Using other companies' trademarks as examples, and redesigning existing logos, carries trademark risk for the company and for users who publish the results.
- **Marketing lines and testimonials.** The home page says the tool generates illustrations "that you can sell on other online platforms to make money faster!". It names no amount. The testimonials on the page are signed with first names and handles only (for example "@CheriBlossm"), and none links to a business.
- **Same maker account, another product.** On Product Hunt, the 2024 launch comments address the maker as @berk_elmas, but in November 2026 that maker account shows the name "Mark Anderson" and the headline "Face Swap AI Maker". The Sketch Logo AI site does not link to a face-swap product. This page does not know who runs that product.
- **Free logo generators and general image models.** The Product Hunt page lists Recraft, LogoFast, Kittl, Zoviz and Google's free AutoDraw as similar products, and a 2024 commenter asked why he should switch from Canva. General image models from the large AI companies also draw logos from a prompt at no extra cost to their subscribers. Store reviews are weak: 2.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings on the App Store, with one reviewer writing that it "makes up random things".
- **Signs of slower work.** The iPhone app's last version is from 14 February 2025 and the Android app's last update from 18 March 2025. No revenue figure after May 2024 was found.

## Sources

1. Startup Founder Stories: Berk Elmas, Sketch Logo AI, $8.4k in four months — https://startupfounderstories.com/stories/berk-elmas-sketch-logo-ai-8k-revenue (grade D). Read in full on 5 November 2026. A third-party summary of the founder's Reddit r/SaaS post of May 2024, which it links; the Reddit post was not read. Source for the revenue claim, the team, the stack and the growth channels.
2. Sketch Logo AI home page — https://www.sketchlogo.ai/ (grade C). Read in full on 5 November 2026, including the pricing section, the sample images and the testimonials. The /pricing and /about pages return 404.
3. Product Hunt: Sketch Logo AI — https://www.producthunt.com/products/sketch-logo-ai (grade C). Read in full. Source for the launch date, the day rank, the points, the team list, the launch comments and the similar products.
4. App Store: Sketch Logo AI: Logo Maker — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6737916133 (grade C). Read in full. Source for the developer, ratings, age rating and version history.
5. Google Play: Sketch Logo AI - Logo Maker — https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.okapitech.sketchlogoai (grade C). Read in full. Source for the downloads, rating, last update and the developer's full company name.
6. The Sketch Logo AI Blog — https://www.sketchlogo.ai/blog (grade C). Read the list of posts.
7. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.

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