Anycrap vs Random Useless Facts

Anycrap serves a database of 35,000+ AI-generated absurdist product concepts — invented gadgets like "Thought-Cancelling Headphones" with a name, satirical description, category tags, and image. Registering an email gets you a free API key instantly (no card), and reads are capped at 60 requests/minute against endpoints for random products, listing/filtering, single lookups by slug, and category counts. There's also a companion npm CLI and an offline faker.js plugin for generating the same style of fake product copy without any network calls.

Random Useless Facts is a free, keyless API that returns one trivia snippet at a time — random, "fact of the day", or lookup by ID — each with its own permalink and a source URL crediting the site it was pulled from (largely djtech.net). Responses come back as JSON by default, but requesting with an `Accept: text/plain` header returns the same fact formatted as plain Markdown-style text instead. There's no rate limiting, authentication, or paid tier — it's a small side project by its Polish maintainer.