Finally, Placekitten: A Web Service For Kitten Photos

Michael Arrington

J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

Placekitten: Something every designer needs. “A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code.”

“This is awesome,” says a developer/entrepreneur who stumbled on it today and is apparently using it. It certainly has a little more character than services like Dummy Image.

It’s two days old.

I love people who do stuff like this just because the thought enters their head.