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loving this, and we should all do more stuff because 'its funny' - would make the world a better place

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Localstorage-based flashcard maker hosted on Cloudflare Pages for $0, no server rendering etc.

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

It’s transparent to me, weird.. I’ll have to look into this. Thanks for feedback :)

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

I’m so glad to hear such feedback! Thanks!

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Ouch, Yeah appears pretty obvious. Will add some rounding to the sizes or similar

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Absolutely, but it’s not that simpel, it’s made to be flexible and handle different logic. Not that it’s magic by any means, it’s fairly simple but you’d want to generate the initials on the server anyway, to acomplish similar results

For example, it takes first letter of first name, and 2 letters from last name if only two names supplied and desired length is 3.

However if 3 names are supplied, it uses a letter from each name.

It’s not magic, but doing it in CSS wouldn’t be easy, I imagine

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

It’s made to be a gravatar fallback :)

The reason its not CSS is because this api generates the initials for you.

CSS is way faster, so I’d recommend that

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Thanks! :) hoping to support everything possible

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ui-avatars

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Thanks for letting me know! I will stuff different languages over the coming months to better manage such things :) didn’t know that

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

However interest is subjective, and it’s obviously interesting to some, considering the traction it’s gotten.

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

I dont get it either :) Yes, that’s basically all it does.

I don’t think theres anything to it

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Thanks of adding this!:D

https://ui-avatars.com/api/?name=马云马云&length=4 Maybe this works?

Anyway, actually one could add &no-cache and it would ignore cache, I forgot that part

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

also, Remarkbox looks nice

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Super cool! I like the SVG support part

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Absolutely, I've played around with this. There are tons of open source libraries to determine gender from name. Obviously it cannot be 100% correct, but it can provide a guess

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Thank you! :)

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Haha, they're so great!

There's also this one: http://avatars.adorable.io

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

In regard to latest edit with Twitter

I think it's interesting how much thought goes into default avatars, and that it can be used as a marketing tactic. Thanks for providing link to Twitter as well. Guess I'll have to think more about it in the future.

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Yeah, it absolutely is (ui-avatars). I think its a neat little think to act as fallback for gravatar, but I totally agree that it's overkill

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Didn't consider that aspect. That would be very cool! Okay, thats a little more of a challenge than generating some initials and making a circle, lol. I will investigate, sadly I'm not the most creative person, so wouldn't be as cool as https://robohash.org

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Wow, I expected something else. That is actually interesting!

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Thanks you!

Honestly? Nothing really. Well, you don't have to think about the code part but besides that? Nothing. Actually it would be more performant to use CSS and HTML (or SVG?) to generate avatars. I have a core package (used to generate the initials), and if used that with html, it would be far better.

I use the service for our internal products, as gravatar fallbacks

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

I built this service (or, the core GitHub package) because we needed it internally, and someone requested an API of this, so I quickly threw together this :-).

Also, I think theres a lot of those unique avatar generators out there (even one in the comments here), and I like them but they're not personal like your initials are. Also, for example, in accounting software (where I needed it internally) a monster or space invaders didn't fit with the audience.

I do however like your idea! Wouldn't be hard do create either. Who knows, that could be version 2

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

I love the idea! It's added to my todo :D

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Solid points :D Sadly theres not much I can do (I think?) to make people believe that there is privacy.

I guess generating them locally (or using CSS) would be the best option for anyone concerned with privacy

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

.. I still don't get it :D

lasserafnon Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Absolutely, I'd probably also just use CSS and HTML and use the core package: https://github.com/lasserafn/php-initials to generate the initials, it's faster and you won't depend on third-party.

I absolutely see your point, that's also why I open-sourced the code (see footer), but obviously I could be using different code or track it on the server (nginx or similar?). This is not the case, but I understand. Another option is to use the core generator (which is also open sourced) so that the generation happens locally :) But then again, CSS+HTML does not require any generation

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Chinese support has been added, good catch! I actually thought I had it covered.

However due to caching, the request above will not work before tomorrow. You will have to input another name. I apologize.

I may clear the image cache later today just to fix any issues related to this.