Show HN: Doodle with strangers 1 on 1 in real-time (opens in new tab)

I was debating whether or not to add text chat, but I think the general consensus so far from people using it is they wanna talk. I'll definitely be adding it in the near future!

I like that you can't type

I just had a CRAZY session with some random dude. We wound up playing tic-tac-toe together, without saying a word.

edit*-> I guess I'm assuming it was a dude...

Just did this a few moments ago. No dicks.

http://i.imgur.com/ZiZAc.png

Yeah.. I'm still trying to figure out how I should tackle the issue of just trollers. I was considering as soon as the current user wants to draw with a different person, they'll never get paired up with their previous partners for as long the session on the website lasts for. And it just keeps track of who they rejected.

As soon as I saw this story I thought "DoodleRoulette!".

I was looking for my drawing on his images folder when i got this (NSFW) http://www.paintacquaint.com/g/245.jpg

Not my drawing by far but hilarious!

Hey JoshTriplett,

Colorillo does a pretty good job at real-time drawing collaboration. There's a bunch of online-real time painting programs out there, like Flockdraw or scriblink. I purposely coded it to have the users pair-up to kind of emulate Omegle or Chatroulette.

The only reason why I didn't decide to make this application using HTML and JS is because I wanted to teach myself Flash + AS3. This was my only 2nd project in flash. I'm definitely planning on porting it to Mobile once I have free time.

Thank you! All this positive feedback means a lot :D

Oh! Glad finally someone asked. The front-end's using flash w/ as3. It was the 2nd project I made using flash, so it was really exciting when I was scrambling across the web for resources. The original front-end the client was actually layering each stroke on top of each other, so what ended up happening was the client would crash after 20ish minutes of moderate use. So I fixed that and ended up using bitmapping to handle the screen. I had a bunch of other features that I disabled for this release [opacity and the undo function] just because they were too buggy.

The server's running I believe CentOS 5.6? or .7? And it's written in Java. Anywho when there's incoming information it stores the coordinates that are being drawn into a buffer. If the buffer becomes full then it shoots it out those coordinates. There's also a 50ms cycle that checks the size of the buffer, so even if it's not full, it'll shoot out the points.

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I mean, for now the server architecture can handle light load but I definitely plan on implementing a more scalable solution if I get more traffic.