Developers struggle to find or make icons that fit their projects
Developers and digital creators can’t always find the icon they need in one library or in a style that fits their project. Making a simple icon themselves can feel tedious, while generating a polished set can involve repeated prompting, curation, and model training. The signals point to related needs around icon discovery, consistency, and creation, but don’t establish how widespread or urgent they are.
For developers and digital creators. Mentioned from Apr 2025 to Jul 2026 on Bluesky and Hacker News.
4 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 4.0/10
- Pain
- 4.5/10
- Frequency
- 5.8/10
- Willingness to pay
- 5.0/10
- Momentum
- 4.7/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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Often times, I don't find all the icons I need in one icon package. I wish there was a way to find icons of various sources (and thus, various styles) and make them more consistent to be used in a program
I'd pay a little to not have to prompt and wait for a bunch of icons, a little more to not have to curate and reroll, and more to not have to train a lora, all assuming those are buying me quality thresholds I care about
Build brief
See what to build and who will buy it
- 2 product ideas with the smallest useful version and pricing
- 4 places to find your first customers
- 2 more quotes from people who have this problem
- Current workarounds, existing solutions and risks