Hello Product Hunt community, I am Raju, the solo-maker of Smart Avatars. When you're building an app that has user profiles, you need a placeholder avatar for users who haven't uploaded their own profile picture. Showing the user initials in the avatar is a standard practice. But this simple task takes hours to build as you need to account for different formats, file sizes, text clipping, text orientation and alignment, etc. When designers ask you to use custom fonts and dynamic backgrounds in these avatars to showcase the brand identity better, this trivial task becomes even trickier. I came across the same problem on a project I was working on. The current solution on the market ui-avatars.com does the job very well, but it does not provide support for custom Google Fonts or gradient backgrounds. So I built Smart Avatars to solve my own problem. Smart Avatars generates your avatar on the first API call and serves a cached response for subsequent calls, and so is highly performant. Check out Smart Avatars today and get your free API key to access unique features like Google Fonts + Custom Gradients support. Docs are here: https://smart-avatars.com/docs I hope you use it in your next app and if you do, please provide feedback/suggestions on how Smart Avatars can better serve you.

Smart Avatars

A free API to generate unlimited custom-branded user avatars

A free API to generate unlimited custom-branded user avatars