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Glad you asked! So for reference, before I created this, I was using https://loremipsum.io/ and https://lorem2.com/. You can find more examples when you look up "Lorem Generator". They all either lack a copy button or have way too many steps to get a simple Lorem text.

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.


Thanks! Will fix, did it during the weekend so I myself got tunnel vision.


Thanks for the feedback! It's true that I plugged my own studio cause I think it would not cause any harm. I just think if Shopify can plug their name on their side products like "Business Name Generator", we all can do it too.

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.


I have no problem with anyone plugging their business. I assume the entire purpose of a small project like this one is to generate leads. I just find it disappointing that it's one of the most unnecessarily bloated websites I've seen in my life, and you plug so many people involved in the project that should know better. If you're trying to make "The fastest way to quickly grab a lorem ipsum", then you need to consider the performance and the time it takes for the site to load, not just the UX. You should be able to get this down to 100ms load times, and closer to 50ms once cached. It shouldn't be seconds.


> For the "Slow" and "Clunky", I was talking more about the UX rather than the performance of such sites.

"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.


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?


I would rather typing each letter our than pay $5 for a Lorem Ipsum Generator haha


I'd rather pay for things than use "free" things that aren't reliable and end up eating my time to get them working again.

Even a small fee generally is enough to keep the person who created it interested in maintaining it and improving it.


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?


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.


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 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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