Show HN: Doodle with strangers 1 on 1 in real-time

Hey guys,<p>I'm re-releasing PaintAcquaint and I wanna know what you guys think about my site! I'll be doing a live-stream at 8 o'clock buuut here are the updates:<p>Updates from Beta:<p>-Cleaner UI w/ new icons courtesy of #tehkseven<p>-Updated Java Server<p>-Bitmapping so no more layering for each brush stroke for a drastically improved performance<p>-Full Screen Mode<p>-Hard Link for your saved photos<p>=]

Great idea. Unfortunately all of the people I was paired with wanted to draw pictures of penises, scribble over the whole thing, or leave after 15 seconds.

Aww just had a good sesh where we drew (I think) a guy with a poster about looking both ways before crossing the road. Accidentally clicked leave.<p>This is fun, and I understand the idea of communicating through drawing... but I still find myself wanting to type at some point.<p>Maybe if you hang out for x seconds, you can text chat?

I was painting a guy then someone did a dog, then someone painted the sky, some trees, and someone was starting to do an elephant but i got disconnected, if you saved that image please share!<p>EDIT:<p>here's how it started<p><a href="http://www.paintacquaint.com/g/221.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.paintacquaint.com/g/221.jpg</a>

<a href="http://www.paintacquaint.com/gallery.php?ID=235" rel="nofollow">http://www.paintacquaint.com/gallery.php?ID=235</a><p>This was a really fun thing and really creative picture imo!<p>Wow, some of the other links here are terrific. I'm amazed two random people have enough dedication to build such detailed stuff.

That was fun, I tried to paint a happy sky and a landscape, just like Bob Ross does on his shows. But I think I did it in the wrong order. Wonder if you could capture some of the pictures as they were being doodled and then show it as an animation, then let people vote on their favorites.

Well, the site's starting to bottom out. If anyone's still reading this, does anyone know what's a good way to pull in more traffic?<p>I've been kinda relying on reddit and deviantArt the past couple of days.

<a href="http://colorillo.com/" rel="nofollow">http://colorillo.com/</a> does the same thing, using HTML and JavaScript with no Flash, and it allows arbitrarily many participants at once.

I think I win:<p><a href="http://www.paintacquaint.com/gallery.php?ID=224" rel="nofollow">http://www.paintacquaint.com/gallery.php?ID=224</a>

I had a great time playing with this tonight, got into a virtual cartoon "fight" creating super-heroes and so on. Great app.

<a href="http://www.paintacquaint.com/gallery.php?ID=233" rel="nofollow">http://www.paintacquaint.com/gallery.php?ID=233</a>

Pretty neat, but needs a chat window or something. I just found myself painting messages ;)

Pretty cool. What's the technical stack behind it?