Joe Schmoe

An illustrated avatar collection for developers & designers

4 followers

An illustrated avatar collection for developers & designers

4 followers

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Joe Schmoes are colorful characters illustrated by Jon&Jess that can be used as profile picture placeholders for live websites or design mock ups. API + SVGs available ✌️

Launch tags:Funny•Design Tools

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SecurePik

Love it! The artwork is awesome! Looking forward to more. 👍 the part on your site: wtf is this? (hilarious) 😆🤣 I was just about to say some things but then I noticed your comment: "We're still working hard both on designing more avatars and also cutting them all down into reusable pieces so you can build your own or generate an (almost) infinite amount of random, silly avatars!" You guys are going to take it to the next level when you create an avatar generator like that. I noticed when I copied the code for the Jess Schmoe and paste it to a test site, it was super big. 😲 If your generator also has an option for avatar size, that would be great. If not I can just compress it myself.

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7yr ago

Joe Schmoe

Maker

@jessehojjensen Hey thanks for the great comment! It's our first side project so it's great to hear people loving it!! 😻 For the size, the images are sent as SVGs, so they don't really have a size - they automatically scale up or down, for free. When sending a regular image (png, etc) the size counts, because each pixel is sent part of the data of this image, resulting in a larger image being a bigger file. With SVGs, the data sent is information on how to draw the vectors (paths, colors, etc). With it, your computer is capable of drawing the SVG at any size, be it 10x10 or 1000x1000 pixels. So what you see here is if you open one of the Schmoes directly in your browser, your browser is rendering the image full screen because nothing is telling it render it differently. When embedding the image into your website, you would usually use an tag and use css to size this img (or an attribute directly). Hope this makes sense!

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7yr ago

Dragula

Love this! <3 Super easy to use and has a bunch of useful features. I love all the character designs. They have so much personality!

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7yr ago

Joe Schmoe

Maker

@talwarutkarsh thanks for the kind feedback!

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7yr ago

Joe Schmoe

Maker

Hey everyone! I'm Jon from jon&jess! Good surprise to see us on Product Hunt today! Jess and I were tired of not having a good solution for profile picture placeholders as we were building product with user profiles, so we decided to design our own and make it easy to use - both in mock designs or in an actual app through an easy API. The ways to get an avatar are basically as follows: https://joeschmoe.io/api/v1/:any...: to get a random (but consistent) Schmoe. This one is the most useful, as you'll always get the same Schmoe from the same string. That gives consistency for the same profile, but diversity between different https://joeschmoe.io/api/v1/:name: to get a specific Schmoe (jon, jess, see the list on the website!) https://joeschmoe.io/api/v1/random to get a random one https://joeschmoe.io/api/v1/male... to get a random male https://joeschmoe.io/api/v1/fema... to get a random female We're still working hard both on designing more avatars and also cutting them all down into reusable pieces so you can build your own or generate an (almost) infinite amount of random, silly avatars! Would love to hear what you think and any additional features you'd want to see, Cheers Jon and Jess 🙂

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7yr ago

Dragula

It's very easy to use and has a bunch of useful features. I love all the character designs. They have so much personality!

Pros:

simple, easy to use, quirky

Cons:

none so far

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7yr ago