"You look at it and you go, 'How does a 17-year-old kid get to 20 to 30 million users without outside capital?' and you go, 'There must be a huge demand for this product,' " Bunker said of Chatroulette, which was founded by Andrey Ternovskiy, a Russian teen. "It reminded me of Adult Friend Finder back in the '90s. You've got that version of things, and then you've got a cleaned-up version of that, which has much more appeal."  So Bunker, who made a name for himself in tech by creating an online dating site that later took the name Match.com, set out to tweak Ternovskiy's idea.  The best companies, he said, are not necessarily original.  "It would be really, really hard to have an original idea -- [where] it's totally original, nobody ever thought about it whatsoever," he said. "I'm from an engineering background, so I try to think in terms of problem solving. I take the parts and try to put them together in an interesting way."  His restructuring of the Chatroulette concept seems to be working. vChatter has attracted 2.5 million users, he said. Earlier this month, the company launched its website; the Facebook app debuted in May.  Chatroulette and vChatter essentially have the same setup: Visitors with webcams are set up with random video chats with strangers from elsewhere on the internet. Both let uncomfortable users click "next" to skip to someone new.  Where the sites differ is in the details. On Chatroulette, users are anonymous and the pairings are completely random. Anyone else who has logged on to the site with a webcam could be your next partner in digital parlor talk -- whether they speak your language and whether or not they're wearing clothes.  vChatter's pairings are only partially random, and the site ties users to their Facebook identities, so you know who you're talking to and, in theory, could report any suspect behavior (Chatroulette has been accused by tech sites as having a "penis problem" because so many men go on the site naked).
Will Bunker says he didn't steal the idea for his Facebook app. He just re-created Chatroulette -- minus the naked people.Bunker is the CEO of vChatter, a Facebook app and newly launched stand-alone