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

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Post by blooalien »

wallawe wrote: post #10
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…

This makes a ton of sense as a browser extension, why not go that route? With this, I still have to google your site (or at least type it into the url bar if i remember the exact url)

If you use it a lot, this makes a ton of sense as a bookmark on your browser's quick access bookmark bar, sidebar, or new tab page. It would also make great sense as a script accessible JSON API endpoint, as another reader here suggested.

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

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Post by iratewizard »

alexray wrote: post #33
wallawe wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This makes a ton of sense as a browser extension, why not go that route? With this, I still have to google your site (or at least type it into the url bar if i remember the exact url)

How do you imagine using it as a browser extension?

Click icon, scroll to desired filler and copy or download

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

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Post by arjvik »

alexray wrote: post #24
jw1224 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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...

Where'd you get the abstract images from?

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

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Post by kc10 »

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.

something like this? https://fakerjs.dev/

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

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Post by kaoD »

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…)

What is amazing to me is that I cannot exactly tell why but I immediate recognized the AI source too, even after seeing only the first photo!

Our brains are truly amazing pattern-matching machines...

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

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Post by enokai »

arjvik wrote: post #53
alexray wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Where'd you get the abstract images from?

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

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Post by bartvk »

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.

Not an API but as a library, a friend of mine made this for Java/Kotlin: https://www.datafaker.net/

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

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Post by aasasd »

harlanlewis wrote: post #15
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…

This is almost perfect, just need a few more special characters. Fortunately, Ešeeva'e Ó Cuinneagáin Sólveig doesn't mind being a _very_ early adopter. Edit: I bet this post looks pretty stupid now after parent edited to include special characters.

> after parent edited to include special characters

I added the city, because I remembered about it. Frankly, I didn't know that Polish had that many diacritics, specifically considering their unfortunate crash into all the digraphs. Ferdinand's name is left as it was, and your point is valid and valuable.

BTW, I had no success googling the name you provided. Thought it would be someone vaguely famous.

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

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Post by probabletrain »

kaoD wrote: post #56
jw1224 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…)

What is amazing to me is that I cannot exactly tell why but I immediate recognized the AI source too, even after seeing only the first photo! Our brains are truly amazing pattern-matching machines...

The eyes are in the same location for all pictures, which I think is a subtle but important clue to our subconscious
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