Show HN: I hate online Lorem Ipsum Generator so I made my own
As a designer, I use Lorem Ipsum a lot but none satisfied me. They are either too slow or too clunky.
It's a weekend project so why not (•‿•)
Also, I am new here. I didn't know about Hacker News before. Glad to meet you all.
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I want to remove that step as well haha
It would be nice to have some multi-paragraph chunks.
It might also be nice to have a toggle to randomize the text on each copy, so subsequent copies get different words.
Your idea is way better! Thanks
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/littleipsum/id405772121
The time taken to type out Lorem Ipsum would be worth more than $5. I know you have other options in this case, but why would you prefer to waste your time than spend money?
In fact this app seems very sketchy, since its website is dead, and its description states "And it’s completely free!" while it's not.
Even a small fee generally is enough to keep the person who created it interested in maintaining it and improving it.
maybe a different page with some inline css font-family picker with size and color.
Question: inline css font-family picker, is it similar to how google font works?
The grand entrance of the fictional house opens to a spacious living room with high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows that offer a panoramic view of the lush garden. This text is fake. To the left, an open-plan kitchen features state-of-the-art appliances and a large island that doubles as a breakfast bar. This passage is a placeholder. Beyond the kitchen, there is a cozy dining area that can comfortably seat eight guests, surrounded by modern art pieces on the walls. Text generated by AI. Adjacent to the living room, a sliding glass door leads to a wooden deck with an outdoor fireplace, perfect for evening gatherings. This text is for illustrative purposes. Upstairs, the master bedroom boasts a private balcony overlooking the backyard, complete with a walk-in closet and a spa-like en suite bathroom. This description is not real. Finally, the basement has been transformed into a home theater with surround sound and plush seating, making it an ideal retreat for movie nights. This content is synthetic.
It’s also easier to search the site for Lorem Ipsum to check you haven’t left anything. Once it’s filled with English you have a harder time finding what needs to be replaced.
Even if it's a logical application of AI — which I don't believe it is — the author rolled up their sleeves and made a thing and probably learned a lot more than typing "hey chat-gemini-pt make me a thing".
I'd hire that guy over you any day.
It even fetches relevant images from a stock image site (I'm not a fan of AI generated images) and handles menu and title, headings, the whole page generated from a user input prompt.
So tempted to share but 1. It's kind of trivial to set up (hint: I use Python to generate a Flask template and serve it up) and 2. Last time hn broke my VPS ;)
I guess the real challenge is to do this at scale.
Well apart from Sentry, Datadog, and Loom.
And the content is missing. All there is there is some placeholder text. /s
Yours is also cool. I like the copy buttons.
https://github.com/fosslife/devtools-x
it's offline and written in tauri+ rust
Two suggestions for the website:
1) I opened the video and it got hidden and now I have to close the website or mute the tab.
2) >Why? Here's what Alan, our founder got what to say.
"got what to say" is wrong.
It's not a great look, especially when you're plugging the design studio, collab partner, and founder for such a basic project. If it takes this much resources to make a box of text with a copy button, I would hate to see the efficiency of your larger projects.
Aside from that, congrats on making something. It's simple, looks relatively polished, and works decent. I think you could maintain the simplicity and add a few features to allow generating alternate text, and a variable number of paragraphs that can be copied at once.
For the "Slow" and "Clunky", I was talking more about the UX rather than the performance of such sites. The fastest way to quickly grab a "lorem ipsum".
For the 1mb logo, that's on me haha. Did it during the weekend. Thank you for letting me know.
"Clunky" I get is about UX, but "Slow"? In what way is UX of other lorem ipsum sites slow?
I typed "lorem ipsum" into a search engine and the first three results were perfectly usable. Only one of them had a "copy" button, if that's what you're after. To their benefit, they were all less than 9MB of resources.
I don't mean this derogatively, I just don't understand how is this better than literally any lorem ipsum generator.
I'm getting very strong "It's not a generator, Jerry!" energy.
For me, I just want to access a tool, do 1 step to quickly grab my Lorem and go. Hence the making of this site.
Imagine you are designing a 10-page website, you don't want to hand-select or click on "generate" and then copy every single time.
Just get in and out :D
That's the idea anyway. Thanks for your comment though, I am new here so I may not understand the culture here well.
It's just a weekend project.
Snoop Dogg style lorem ipsum texts.
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