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24 alternatives to PlaceGuitar - my weekend image placeholder project
http://www.placeguitar.com My weekend project is, as you may have guessed, an image placeholder service that serves up guitars! The inspiration came from a tweet (http://twitter.com/#!/zedshaw/status/88126558686019584 ). I decided to hack it together using Python on Google App Engine. The service is simple - pass in your width and height in the url (e.g. www.placeguitar.com/800/600 to get an 800 by 600 image) and get back a random image of a guitar to your size spec. Pop the url in the src of your img tag to use it on a site. That's all it does. There is a quick and dirty admin only form to…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. PlaceGuitar - my weekend image placeholder project launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Originally started as a project to restore patterns from now defunct website 808.pixll.de just for myself, but eventually i decided to share it with others. I've seen this website mentioned a couple of times on HN:) Currently it only supports Roland TR-808, but there will be more.
2025 · drumpatterns.onether.com · its alternatives →
- 2AU
2013 · mebe.co · its alternatives →
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Lightest way to include placeholder images in your design
2016 · placeholder.pics · its alternatives →
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Plaiceholder▲204Beautiful pure CSS image placeholders, without the hassle.
2020 · plaiceholder.co · its alternatives →
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2011 · tvsizematters.com · its alternatives →
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PHOTOMOSH▲120Insert an img or short vid and get some vaporwave art
2019 · moshpro.app · its alternatives →
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Free online placeholder image generator | Themedevhub
2025 · themedevhub.com · its alternatives →
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- 10MU
2013 · phrase.it · its alternatives →
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Imgsrc.Space▲88Get image and video placeholder right from code, fast
2021 · imgsrc.space · its alternatives →
- 13PF
As you can tell, I haven't really been sure how to pitch this site. Maybe it's trying to do too much. It's still a work in progress, but I would love to get some feedback. Thanks HN! HOWTO: http://groktar.com/?m=kTD4PzaNwv Lagrima: http://groktar.com/?m=TLZgtrjM6n
2013 · groktar.com · its alternatives →
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Forget kittens. Pizza is where it’s at.
2019 · its alternatives →
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- 19MW
2013 · prtflio.eu · its alternatives →
- 20IM
Hi HN, I built a little tool to help me get better at remembering country locations on the map: https://learn-worldmap.netlify.app/ It's made from plain HTML/CSS/JS, and not intended to make any money or anything. Just thought that maybe someone else may enjoy it. Also of course happy about any feedback! Cheerz.
2023 · learn-worldmap.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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Hey all, Last week I had to make a couple of test pages and turned to one of my favorite sites to fill it with some imagery: https://placebear.com/ There's a pretty large amount of sites like this, but none seemed to be serving the superior animal: sloths. So I hacked this together quickly over the weekend. It's definitely ugly code and an ugly approach, nothing prevents this from going OOM, it'll probably fall over under a bit of load (or when the single spot instance running it gets replaced), but it was fun to build and fills my needs. Hope this inspires you to expand the…
2022 · placesloth.com · its alternatives →
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Beautiful image placeholders, without the hassle. Contribute to joe-bell/plaiceholder development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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