I recently bootstrapped a company and we wanted some nice looking default images for our users that didn't upload their own and we found some out there but not too many with the goal we were looking achieve — other than boringavatars.com (where this project gets its inspiration!). We didn't want to implement avatars creators like the ones where you can customize the exact look and feel, that seemed too... Source: 8 months ago

Makes sense. I concentrated on porting what existed in boringavatars.com first. There is definitely room to alter the algorithms that generate the images now, though. Source: over 1 year ago

I would first like to thank Boring Designers for their initial work on boringavatars.com. All I did was port what they did to other frameworks using Mitosis. Source: over 1 year ago

Boring Avatars - Generate Avatars for your users faster and easier if you are lazy like me. Source: almost 2 years ago

Tyke (Free) Not a trike but a tyke! (I'm so sorry)... A little bit of scratch paper 📝 that lives on your Mac menu bar. Source: about 1 year ago

I'm moving to Linux/Gnome from macOS. There is a little app for Apple's OS that I use a lot: Tyke. It's utterly simple, basically an icon on menubar that holds a text field where I can't type or paste anything I want in plain text. When I reboot the system, it vanishes. Source: over 2 years ago

I use the free Tyke all the time. Don’t mind at all that it has few features. https://tyke.app/. Source: almost 3 years ago

For a simple(r) no non-sense, free, no markdown just plain text alternative, check out Tyke: https://tyke.app. Source: almost 3 years ago

Tyke is the most dead simple option I've seen. https://tyke.app/. Source: about 3 years ago