Lorem Picsum
Dev tools
placeholder image service
SHOW HN2019
880points
123comments
#5of 2,195 in 2019
Top 1%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
21 positive, 24 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 52 comments about the project. Thread score +0.28.
Design: 6 for, 2 againstIdea: 4 for, 1 againstDocs: 4 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clear, simple docs and homepage
From 3 comments
Just wanted to comment on the clarity and effectiveness of the home page. Love it! So many user-friendly checkboxes are ticked off. Nice look, great description, plenty of…
O1111OOO on HNExactly. It took me under 30 seconds of scanning through the page to understand most of the API. No fancy badges, abstract graphics or buzzwords, just a direct demonstration of…
hliyan on HNThis is what API homepages, or at least "Getting Started" pages, should feel like.
yingw787 on HN
Great name
From 2 comments
Normally, I don't think much of the name of a product. Descriptive, flowerly, pie-in-the-sky, complete bs, etc. This one is genius.
berbec on HNLooks like this is not the first service like this, but I'll be honest, I wasn't aware they exist! Haha! This one might win the contest on beat name though. I feel like it's a…
40four on HN
Nice photos
From 2 comments
Simple service, easy to use, gets the job done, good selection of beautiful photos and great documentation on the open source repo. I'm sold
jbkkd on HNLove at first sight!
arendtio on HN
Objections
Photos rely on Unsplash licensing
From 1 comment
This looks neat and might come in handy. I'm concerned about the legitimation, though. Citing from https://unsplash.com/license: > This license does not include the right to…
pvorb on HN
Service was down during backend switch
From 1 comment
Has there been some kind of relaunch? Service was unreachable last Friday.
ricardobeat on HN
URL format with slashes is hard to read
From 2 comments
I don't like the fact that it's /200/300, it should be /200x300. The slash makes it more difficult to read, i.e. in the example: https://picsum.photos/id/237/200/300, it would be…
herpderperator on HNIt should be https://picsum.photos/id/237?w=200&h=300, IMO.
quickthrower2 on HN
Requests
Category or tag filtering of images
From 2 comments
Are the photos scraped automatically from Unsplash or are they manually curated in some way? I'm wondering because it looks like that website classifies photos by category…
marc_abonce on HNThis needs some support to query by tags to turn into something awesomer.
TomK32 on HN
Video or GIF placeholders
From 1 comment
Somebody should built an equivalent for gifs and videos
busymom0 on HN
Questions
How is the service funded and hosted
From 1 comment
How is something like this funded? Doesn’t this cost money to host?
anbop on HN
What is the privacy policy
From 1 comment
What is your privacy policy? Do you store any information about the users?
gloflo on HN
Alternatives named
PlaceKitten
From 1 comment
I'm personally partial to PlaceKitten[1] though around halloween I will sometimes switch it up with PlaceZombie[2] This one looks nice in that you wouldn't be embarrassed if it…
throwaway2016a on HN
Unsplash Source
From 2 comments
What is the difference between this and Unsplash Source[1]? [1]. https://source.unsplash.com/
n_u_l_l on HNThis seems to be built on top of the unsplash API. That is of course ok, but does it provide any relevant additional functionality? You can literally use…
blackbrokkoli on HN
lorempixel
From 2 comments
http://lorempixel.com/ It's pretty old, too. https://www.awwwards.com/sites/lorempixum
PavlovsCat on HNSimilar: lorempixel.com https://placeholder.com/
edgarvaldes on HN
placeholder.com
From 2 comments
I've used this plain placeholder (https://placeholder.com/) and it worked nice, but this looks like next level :) Thanks!
ndusan-hn on HNSimilar: lorempixel.com https://placeholder.com/
edgarvaldes on HN