Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Placemonkeys
A quick and simple service for getting images of monkeys.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Placemonkeys launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN! I posted this on April 1st when it launched, and though it didn't get traction here, it was a minor hit on reddit! Now that we've got a few thousand monkeys under our belt, wanted to give it another shot here! Happy to talk about the technical details of running the site - using supabase/postgres and constantly putting out fires from the traffic.
2025 · monkeys.zip · its alternatives →
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DataMonkey▲676Your GeoAI to combine in-house with public map-based data
2024 · datamonkey.tech · its alternatives →
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TinyFaces▲403Free crowd-sourced avatar gallery including Sketch plugin
2017 · tinyfac.es · its alternatives →
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Get unique AI-generated people faces placeholders in Sketch
2019 · sliday.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Plaiceholder▲204Beautiful pure CSS image placeholders, without the hassle.
2020 · plaiceholder.co · its alternatives →
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Automate workflows in 1,000+ apps with text analysis
2019 · monkeylearn.com · its alternatives →
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Gradient Joy▲107Beautiful gradients as placeholder images just for you
2018 · gradientjoy.com · its alternatives →
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Place Dog▲95Cute dogs as placeholders for your websites and designs
2021 · place.dog · its alternatives →
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Lightest way to include placeholder images in your design
2016 · placeholder.pics · its alternatives →
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Google Pics▲38Boundless AI image generation meets precision editing
May 2026 · workspace.google.com · 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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Free online placeholder image generator | Themedevhub
2025 · themedevhub.com · its alternatives →
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Professional website creation in web studio In an age when most people search for […]
2016 · avatars.adorable.io · its alternatives →
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Hi, HN, I'm Roshan and I'm part of the team that's launching the Placekey today at https://placekey.io. It is a free and open universal standard identifier we built so that data pertaining to places can be shared across organizations easily. A Placekey is a short identifier that has Address and POI sections detailing What is at a place and a section describing Where on the globe the place is. Eventually, there will be a Placekey for every place in the world, even those without postal addresses. US geospatial data from a large array of partners…
2020 · its alternatives →
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