RandomUser vs What The Commit

RandomUser (the Random User Generator) is a free, open-source API that returns one or more fully-formed fake user profiles — name, address, email, login credentials, and photo — as JSON, XML, CSV, or YAML depending on the format query parameter. Requests can be tuned with parameters for results count, gender, nationality, and a seed value that makes the "random" output reproducible across calls. It has no authentication and no key-based rate limit, making it a common stand-in for Lorem Ipsum-style placeholder people in demos and test fixtures.

What The Commit serves an endless stream of joke commit messages drawn from a fixed pool, built to be piped into git commit -m when you can't think of anything better. The plain-text /index.txt endpoint returns one message per request for shell scripting and git aliases, and a live /index.json endpoint wraps the same message with a stable hash and permalink. It's free, keyless, and carries no rate limit or pricing page.