Show HN: Relevant placeholder images (alternative to placeholder.com etc.)

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4 years ago

I made https://imgy.dev/ last week. Provides more relevant placeholder images for comps and so on. Same idea as the old Placeholder site, but prettier. Just embed an image tag linking to the service, and tell it what you want. For example

img src="https://imgy.dev/puppy"

Will give you an image of a puppy. You can also specify image size to crop to or use landscape / portrait. See the site for examples.

Very simple build. I needed it and it was quick to dev. Took about a week to get the API uncapped before I could share it. Uses pexels API.

Give it a go. Let me know if it breaks.