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Re: Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs

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Post by outsidetheparty »

Took me a moment to notice the "shuffle" button; the utility of the site became a lot clearer after that!

Are those real peoples' photos? I know this is intended for mockups and placeholders, but the absence of any licensing info would still give me a little pause before trying this for anything but a personal project. (I recognize the 'fake logos' from logoipsum.com, they don't require attribution but you miiiiight be on the wrong side of the line of their "as long as you don't use the logo to make similar website as Logoipsum then it's all good" thing.)

I hate to be the copyright party pooper, but this is a nifty idea; a quick note at the bottom confirming sourcing and that everything's openly usable would probably encourage more people to make use of it!

Re: Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs

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Post by aasasd »

onion2k wrote: post #20
aasasd wrote: post #12

If you aren't testing your interface with names like Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen, you're doing it wrong. My favorite town is Chrząszczyżewoszczyce, powiat Łękołody: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jaMcIbIWt_4 My favorite country is Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sov…

I think I went to school with him.

Well, it's not like I made him up, he's 25 now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Habsburg_(racing_dri...

Memorable from the 2017 Macau F3 finish: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RfWr8mP3P1Y

Re: Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs

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Post by jw1224 »

outsidetheparty wrote: post #21

Took me a moment to notice the "shuffle" button; the utility of the site became a lot clearer after that! Are those real peoples' photos? I know this is intended for mockups and placeholders, but the absence of any licensing info would still give me a little pause before trying this for anything but a personal project. (I recognize the 'fake logos' from logoipsum.com, they don't require attribution but you miiiiight…

> Are those real peoples' photos?

Certainly not the portrait photos — they’re unmistakably sourced from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (once you’ve seen enough of them, they’re impossible to miss…)

Re: Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs

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Post by alexray »

jw1224 wrote: post #23
outsidetheparty wrote: post #21

Took me a moment to notice the "shuffle" button; the utility of the site became a lot clearer after that! Are those real peoples' photos? I know this is intended for mockups and placeholders, but the absence of any licensing info would still give me a little pause before trying this for anything but a personal project. (I recognize the 'fake logos' from logoipsum.com, they don't require attribution but you miiiiight…

> Are those real peoples' photos? Certainly not the portrait photos — they’re unmistakably sourced from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (once you’ve seen enough of them, they’re impossible to miss…)

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...

Re: Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs

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Post by alexray »

berkes wrote: post #19

I like how this includes images and logos. I typically use https://mockaroo.com/ . But its target is probably less design and more implementing a design in an app or a site.

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

Re: Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs

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Post by alexray »

danielvaughn wrote: post #8
alexray wrote: post #3

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 development and frequently need to fill it with placeholder content. I usually just Google “Lorem ipsum” and end up on a site about the history of lorem ipsum, then copy and paste some small chunk of it to fill the field I need. Ben, who is…

I'm about to build something similar, not as a standalone product, but as an internal component for a side project of mine. If this could be fleshed out, and delivered as an API, I'd pay for it.

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

Re: Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs

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Post by alexray »

ActualBest wrote: post #14
alexray wrote: post #3

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 development and frequently need to fill it with placeholder content. I usually just Google “Lorem ipsum” and end up on a site about the history of lorem ipsum, then copy and paste some small chunk of it to fill the field I need. Ben, who is…

If you click just a little too far to the right of the Shuffle button, you download instead.

Oops! I'll fix that :)

Re: Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs

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Post by alexray »

lazyjeff wrote: post #16
alexray wrote: post #3

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 development and frequently need to fill it with placeholder content. I usually just Google “Lorem ipsum” and end up on a site about the history of lorem ipsum, then copy and paste some small chunk of it to fill the field I need. Ben, who is…

Nice idea, I could imagine using this. Just a thought, it might be nice to see more variation in the Lorem Ipsum, like with text that include numbers and links and capitalized word, maybe even multiple paragraphs.

That's a great idea

Re: Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs

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Post by alexray »

throwaway888abc wrote: post #4
alexray wrote: post #3

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 development and frequently need to fill it with placeholder content. I usually just Google “Lorem ipsum” and end up on a site about the history of lorem ipsum, then copy and paste some small chunk of it to fill the field I need. Ben, who is…

Brilliant idea! Bookmarked. Will use. Some wish list: - implement seed number (to get same results every time) - json endpoint - little bit more of data types

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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