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alexray

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About alexray

Big nerd

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    Comment #45923753

    I made a RNG https://prom.dev/p/random-number-generator

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    Comment #45922547

    Did you use the "mean comment generator" to write this comment?

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    Comment #43071583

    What’s the use case you’re trying to solve for here?

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    Comment #32140992

    this looks so great! congrats on the launch!

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    Comment #32086017

    Hey HN, Alex and Ben here, and we wanted to share another web app we created recently. Sweetfont is a tool to help you find fonts without having to know a lot about typography. The…

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    Comment #31939980

    Great idea!

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    Comment #31939295

    Good find -- we'll fix that!

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    Comment #31939290

    Yeah, rereading the license, it looks like we shouldn't use images from there. We have already removed them from the list - thanks for the flag

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    Comment #31938548

    Once this becomes the next decacorn, we're going to get Ferdinand Z. M. B. K. M. O. A. B. L. von Habsburg-Lothringen to be our spokesman. Heck, Ferdinand -- if you're in the commen…

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    Comment #31938462

    That's a good point -- our goal is for everything on the site to be able to be used without any sort of attribution. I think it's that way now, but will go and double check everyth…

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    Comment #31938433

    That's a fair callout -- thanks. We will probably make the color a little less intense in the future, or at least give an option of muting it :)

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    Comment #31938407

    How do you imagine using it as a browser extension?

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    Comment #31938401

    Thanks! What kinds of components? We're happy to add more

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    Comment #31938396

    I haven't heard of Faker before, but it looks cool! (It's https://fakerjs.dev/ , for anyone else who discovers this here)

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    Comment #31938377

    Cool, thanks - that seems to be a popular request. I think we'll build that next.

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    Comment #31938354

    Those are great ideas. I hadn't thought of including a seed, but it shouldn't be too hard to set up. What kinds of data types are you imagining?

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    Comment #31938342

    That's a great idea

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    Comment #31938337

    Oops! I'll fix that :)

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    Comment #31938333

    Interesting -- want to chat and tell me a bit more? You can send me an email at alex at ui filler dot com

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    Comment #31938287

    That's cool! We're thinking about adding an API in the future. What kinds of things are you using mockaroo for?

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    Comment #31938275

    Right! We wanted to make sure not to use real people's photos. It is a bit eery that all of their eyes stay in the same place as you hit shuffle...

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    Comment #31936363

    Hey HN, Alex and Ben here, and we wanted to share a simple web app we created recently. UI Filler is a quick way to get placeholders for your designs. We do a lot of UI design and …

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