PlacePix
Open-source Self-Hosted Placeholder Image Service
What this is
We haven’t read this one yet — so we won’t describe it in our own words. What’s below is measured, not written.
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- since today
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
Design. Launched 3h ago on Product Hunt, picking up 2 votes. Today, we don't have a clean reading on the site right now, so we won't call its status either way.
Moving right now. The clock only starts when a launch goes quiet.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
Daily tracking just started for this launch — the first point is on the board. A second reading lands with tomorrow's run, and the curve builds from there.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
PlacePix is a self‑hosted placeholder image server. Drop images into a folder, run Docker, and serve resized, filtered, and formatted images via simple URLs. Features: face‑aware cropping, filters (grayscale, blur, sepia, etc.), multiple formats (JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF), color/text placeholders, preset dimensions, watermark, srcset generation, upload API, S3 storage, and an admin dashboard. Self‑hosted · Open source · Zero config
Where it launched
1 platform| Platform | Votes | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Product Hunt | 2 | ↗ |
The board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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