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Hi HN, Since last year I developped many websites for friends that wanted either to start working on their own or just wanted to have a small online presence.
by ilovefood 5y ago
Hi HN,
Since last year I developped many websites for friends that wanted either to start working on their own or just wanted to have a small online presence. While designing I always had problems finding the right pictures / images / stock or design inspiration to get them going so I whipped out a small free project to help me "randomly" find images https://assetroulette.com/ https://assetroulette.com/.
You can try it out, it's free, no need for registration, I am not gathering emails or whatever, it's so far just a simple tool I whipped up last weekend to solve a small niche problem I had.
Currently hosted on a 3€/month server. It helped me visualize images in their context (web page) to iterate quickly. The issue I was facing was that while some images on stock websites looked cool at first, embedding them almost always looked bad and was a waste of time... This way I can refresh a couple of times and eventually find an image that is relevant (works for CSS too and generally any asset - even user provided ones - on the webpage that can be shuffled until it is satisfactory).
I'll leave the website up for a little. I decided to share it because I successfully used it today on a website for a friend that wants to start selling jewelry. I would love to have some feedback, it's still in construction but maybe you can already find a good use of it. Thanks in advance!