Ask HN: A site that lets you use someone else's profile picture in your app?

1 points by jtcchan 12y ago ↗ HN

I'm looking for a site that is basically a collection of Twitter profile pictures. You sign up for the service and in doing so, authorize others to use your Twitter profile picture for their projects (e.g. say, as a dummy user in their app). I think the license was for personal projects but it has an option for commercial projects as well.

I vaguely remember seeing such a site (on HN?) once upon a time ago but I can't seem to find it. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

(I'm using it to build screenshots for an app.)

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jbird1 12y ago ↗

Interesting for dev but why wouldn't you use Gravatar?

jtcchan 12y ago ↗

Well, Gravatar is useful for having users sign up and have their profile pics ready to go (which I'm already doing). But now I'm looking for placeholders of real people so I can build screenshots of the app. You probably need explicit permission from the owner for that kinda thing, right?

It's just that I saw the site before -- it's kinda driving me crazy I can't find it now.