Each random chat conversation is referred to as a game and you can restart a new game at any time.The site requires you to be clothed at all times (No.

“You can save, like, a year and a half of your life if your outfit is pre-chosen,” he said.

Pasternak dropped out of high school in Sydney, Australia, last year and moved to New York, with the goal of making what he called “the No.

1 app in the world.” One recent afternoon, he woke up at one o’clock, in his twenty-seventh-floor, forty-two-hundred-dollar-a-month apartment in Hell’s Kitchen.

Created by a Russian school boy, Chatroulette connects millions of strangers in random video conversations.

The web app itself is pretty bare-bones, with two video panes showing the user & you, a huge pane for text chat and a couple of buttons for controlling the chat.