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Show HN: I hate online Lorem Ipsum Generator so I made my own

 2 weeks ago
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Show HN: I hate online Lorem Ipsum Generator so I made my own

Show HN: I hate online Lorem Ipsum Generator so I made my own
49 points by alanpham 2 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 26 comments
As a designer, I use Lorem Ipsum a lot but none satisfied me. They are either too slow or too clunky.

https://loremcopy.com/

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.

I'm a big fan of Hipster Ipsum (https://hipsum.co).

A sample:

Pour-over leggings chicharrones same direct trade, sriracha hexagon cardigan succulents pinterest hot chicken tattooed hella. JOMO roof party disrupt taiyaki pickled ugh kickstarter ethical activated charcoal. Gastropub selvage lumbersexual, microdosing mukbang raw denim DIY edison bulb asymmetrical jawn snackwave wayfarers tofu solarpunk organic.

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I like this too! Simple and minimal but there is an additional step to click "Generate"

I want to remove that step as well haha

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Ha ha ha safe humor, gold! DAE notice hipsters? To the top with you!
Why use Lorem Ipsum, when you can just ask AI to "write 5 paragraphs about ancient Chinese pottery", on whatever topic your website/app is.
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The purpose of Lorem Ipsum and similar is to provide text that looks close enough to actual content but isn't anything someone is going to get distracted by when evaluating a template. If the text is actually readable, even if entirely made up by a LLM, it doesn't work.
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Why doesn't it work? It's closer to the real website. It works better than lorem-ipsum.
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It could be mistaken for actual text that would go into the final project. Lorem-ipsum is obvious fake text. I’ve had to explain to someone what it is before, but it was obvious enough they asked instead of thinking they should review the content of the text.
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Also using Lorem Ipsum makes it easy to tell at a glance whether the site/app is using real text. Using generated real text would require a bit more thought to verify that the generated text should be replaced.
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Lorem Ipsum generators take a tiny fraction of the power that an AI would use. Asking an AI to do it just seems wasteful.
Is it a "generator" though? It seems to be static.

Well apart from Sentry, Datadog, and Loom.

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> Is it a "generator" though? It seems to be static.

And the content is missing. All there is there is some placeholder text. /s

If I may add suggestions, I'd love a bit of CSS for dark mode.
Cool project, love the quick access!

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.

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That's actually a good idea. It is also a pet peeve of mine so I added "variations".

Your idea is way better! Thanks

I was thinking today that if we had to pick a latin motto, it would "lorem ipsum".
could add a hotlinkable video and a picture.

maybe a different page with some inline css font-family picker with size and color.

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That could work! Like a placholder video and image is various aspect ratio

Question: inline css font-family picker, is it similar to how google font works?

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Sounds strange that someone would pay for that. But who am I to judge.
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I would rather typing each letter our than pay $5 for a Lorem Ipsum Generator haha
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I understand the sentiment, but this is why we have the free software sustainability crisis. https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/open-source-has-a-sustainabi... https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/sustainability/sustainability....

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?

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Wait what? Where is the free software here?

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.

link is not working, it redirects me back here again
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