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Dev tools · July 18, 2011

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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…

PlaceGuitar - my weekend image placeholder project launched on July 18, 2011 with 5 votes, #80 of 194 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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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…

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