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Collaborative ASCII Drawing with Telnet is a web-based tool that lets multiple users create ASCII art together in real-time. Visitors connect via telnet to draw and edit text-based images as a group. The platform is… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Collaborative ASCII Drawing with Telnet launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1IM

    I made a website for drawing ascii art with other people https://ascii-collab.app/ It's been online for a little over a year so there's a fair bit of stuff to browse if you want to look around (so much that I even made a poster https://ascii-collab.app/poster.png) There are other websites like yourworldoftext that do this but ascii-collab has some extra features like per-user undo/redo, box selection, a color highlight mode to see who made particular changes, and there's admin tools so I can remove spam. The code is open sourced here…

    2021 · its alternatives →

  2. 2MC
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    Collaborative decks for creative teams

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Make ASCII art for READMEs, Discord & creative visuals

    Sep 2026 · imagetoascii.art · its alternatives →

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    I've made an ASCII drawing board. You can set any brush, canvas size, export art as a text file. I want to keep it as manual/analog as possible, hence there is no tool for converting image to ASCII. Prompting LLMs to draw ASCII art turned out to be a difficult task . So instead I decided to ask it make a drawing board. Wihtout coding agent I wouldn't even try myself. Although it is an interesting task, it would drift me away. Basically it's just a drawing board with endless variations of textures and brushes: when you make large canvas and zoom out you don't see ASCII anymore, but…

    2025 · delopsu.com · its alternatives →

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    Create beautiful text charts (ascii) from your data

    2023 · mrrartpro.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7AA
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    Surprise your readers with an original post using text art

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple proof of concept realtime collaborative drawing 🎨 🖌🌳💻 - nyxtom/drawing-webrtc

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10CP

    2012 · dchang.mit.edu · its alternatives →

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    I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that people may witness the end-to-end experience.

    2024 · lostpixels.io · its alternatives →

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    Here▲304

    Hang out and collaborate over video on a real-time canvas

    2020 · here.fm · its alternatives →

  13. 13AO
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    Ello 3.0▲282

    A social network for artists

    2017 · notongamcasino.co · its alternatives →

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    Mural▲271

    Online whiteboard for visual collaboration

    2016 · mural.co · its alternatives →

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    Rendernet▲181

    Create AI images with character consistency

    2024 · affogato.ai · its alternatives →

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    ASCII art on your wall ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    ScribbleX - A social drawing game

    2020 · scribblex.com · its alternatives →

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    Draw art with people around the world on an infinite canvas

    2024 · everyonedraw.com · its alternatives →

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    Using a Teletype Model 33 electromechanical terminal (https://twitch.tv/33asr) - ASR33/asciiart/README.md at master · hughpyle/ASR33

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We're working on an AI studio product, and have been experimenting with the recently-released ControlNet (https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet) After wasting hours with it, we decided to put together a quick fun project. "Sketch" allows you to draw anything (works w/ touch inputs on mobile too), enter a prompt (it can be as simple as "drawing" and it'll try to guess) and you get something out fast. Keeping it all on a public feed as well, to serve as inspiration. Hope anyone here finds it fun :-)

    2023 · clio.so · its alternatives →

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    Mixed▲239

    Real-time whiteboard for distributed teams

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Drawft▲69

    Communicate with drawings - in real time

    2014 · its alternatives →

  24. 24CD

    Artificially Intelligent Design

    2017 · johan-nordberg.com · its alternatives →

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