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bjord
on Sept 6, 2022
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Ask HN: Which startups have the most interesting p...
pretty sure the discord as a whole was a pivot away from a video game (I believe they extracted the chat feature they'd built for the game and ran with that)
emptysea
on Sept 6, 2022
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I think that’s actually the Slack origin story you’re thinking of, but honestly discord could have the same origin.
pnw
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Slack and Discord have a lot in common. Both were the founders second attempt at a game company that morphed into a chat platform.
Jason previously founded Aurora Feint, which became the social platform OpenFeint, acquired by Gree.
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