Looking for Hosting Sponsorship

As long as we unleashed source code to public we lost our only revenue stream coming from selling sources. Until we find another one, we need to cover our hosting expenses (104USD/month).
We looking for a java hosting sponsorship for the next 6 months. It shouldn't necessary be a dedicated server as we are currently having. Good shared java hosting would be enough for the first time.
If you have an extra hosting resource and willing to help us, please write us to litha.paint@gmail.com.

Litha-Paint Became Open Source

Hi there!
Despite of world-wide downturn there are still some pleasant moments in our life. Having no investments nor obligations we can afford ourselves such crazy little things like throwing our project to the public.

You can download it from https://svn.codehaus.org/litha-paint/ anonymously.

Go ahead until i changed my mind :-)

We have got a new license agreement

We created a public license agreement which allows person or organization to obtain either binaries or sources of the product.
Of course, you may still leverage a power of our graphics engine via javascript API for free. If you need to setup your own server, you need to agree with our license requirements.

If you need more details about license rules and prices for binaries or sources, write us to litha.paint@gmail.com.

regards,
Vyacheslav Evgrafov

Litha-Paint is on the eBay

Dear web2.0 community.

During last sixteen months our tiny team was absorbed in developing litha-paint.com - javascript-powered vector graphics editor. Me and my friend Alex Padalka have been created core functionality for the product for 4 months of intensive exhausting work. At the time, we were working full time for some software company. But our hearts, dreams and all our free time were dedicated to our project.

We didn't had customers, didn't had investments and even didn't had a business plan. The only thing we had is the faith, that drawing vector graphics in webbrowser, equipped only with javascript - is amazing thing and a kind of magic. But real life had showed that having just faith was not enough.

Internet community warmly met our product and asked for some more features. Many site owners asked us to integrate LiThA engine into their online stores and portals. It was obvious that we need full time dedication to the Litha-Paint in order to satisfy growing demand. We started to search VC but failed very soon. There are no venture capitalists here in Ukraine and obtaining visa to USA is near impossible.

At that time we still had a fuel for one more quick march. We decided reorganize our codebase and extract convenient API to our drawing engine. That process took us three monthes. We finished the task in May 2007 and started working with webdesk.in, supporting them with their wDraw.

Soon after that we received more inquiries from entrepreneurs related to using litha-paint on their sites. We couldn't accept any of proposition, because it would requires a lot of customization works. We just haven't resources for managing all such things.

We decided to sell Litha-Paint.com on eBay. It was very personal decision for me and Alex. Both of us should agree that we can't materialize or dream. Both of us should accept that we understand nothing in business. In context of amount money and emotional and intellectual power we spent on LiThA-Paint, we started to think about product as of our own child. But delay may mean death for the project. There still is a niche not taken yet by Flex, Sliverlight and JavaFX. There still is demand for lightweight software. We started an auction on 04.11.2007 with starting price = 0.99$.

If there would be a person who would want to do something with the product, we will help him. We will provide all sources, scripts, manuals, our knowledge about sourcecode, server infrastructure, etc.

The auction would last for ten days.


sincerely yours,

Vyacheslav Evgrafov.

Latest News

Many things happened last month.
First of all we performed some performance improvements on the client side by reducing amount of divs for ellipse, line, polyline, polygon and free hand.
Secondly, we created start page with more info about our product and created a simple demo.
And last but not least, we started integration with YouOS. The new application YouDraw is built using Litha technology and it would be hosted on YouOS. YouDraw should provide an idea to javascript developers about how to utilize drawing power of Litha on their own sites.

API has been released!

We just released our javascript API that allows sites from outer domains utilize Litha's drawing functionality. API described on our wiki. Simple example of Litha's canvas usage by 3-rd party site from other domain name you can find here.

Litha-Paint under Bitty Browser

Bitty Browser has gained popularity on the Web and is available on several popular resources such as Netvibes, Google and Windows Live.
The good news is that Litha-Paint works under Bitty Browser in full-size mode.

Just try the following:
1) open www.bitty.com;
2) find Bitty Browser on the right side of the page;
3) type www.litha-paint.com in its address bar;
4) select "Open it in full-size"
5) click on "Skip to my selection"

Bitty would load Litha-Paint. You'll need to create new document, specify width and height of the document in pixels. That's it. Now you can draw in Bitty Browser!