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p/mockarooA realistic data generator to test your app
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Chris Messina

Mockaroo - A realistic data generator to test your app

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With Mackaroo you can test your APIs more easily and realistically than ever. It generates more than 9,000 female and male names and 50,000 surnames in many different languages so you can get a real-world view of your product.

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Chris Messina
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It always bothers me when I see mockups on Dribbble that use "optimistic data" — like super pretty profile photos or shot names. Data in the real world is way more messy — photos are bad, names are long and hyphenated (not to mention in other languages), etc. It's nice to see a tool that combats this kind of designer-laziness by making real-world data available for mocking up apps and interfaces with realistic data! Also works with the Sketch Data Populator!
Menachem Pritzker
@chrismessina totally agree with that. it's easy to design a pretty looking app where everybody uploads a great profile pic and full data, the real UX challenge is in designing a beautiful looking app with a bunch of empty fields
Eleanor Harding
@chrismessina Very true. Photoshop is the best way to show a client what their product will never look like.
Nick Zieber
@tweetanor @chrismessina So true, but also a good way to get a client to pay money. Sort of a Catch - 22
Brittany Martin
This concept was just featured in a Techcrunch article. http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/26... I'll be trying this out today!
Chris Messina
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@brittjmartin great spot!
Maarten Belmans
Great idea :) Thanks for hunting. I'll be using this a lot!
Marko
This is awesome!
Matt Curry
For a data analytics firm, this is immensely helpful. Thanks!
Ben Thompson
This looks useful. Often when we're creating new reports, it's tough to evaluate their effectiveness until we see it with actual data. Cheers to the team behind Mockaroo
Ross Currie
This is great. In my other life I'm an identity & Access Management Consultant and frequently when we're working in dev environments we need large amounts of identity data to test with... I wish I had this five years ago.
Marc Magnin
This tool is really useful. I found it a couple of months ago and I use it every time I need to quickly populate a table with realistic data. The ability to generate CSV on the go, ready to upload to troubleshoot a web-app is awesome. The developers in my team also use it to test their systems.
Josh Puetz
This is EXCELLENT: especially the SQL option! Fantastic work!