No. 042 · 2015 · San Francisco

Discord

Made a game nobody played. Everyone wanted its voice chat.

Group chat for everyone

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Make my startup a legend
  1. 1 2014. A mobile game studio.
  2. 2 Nobody plays it.
  3. 3 But the chat they built is great.
  4. 4 Kill the game. Ship the chat.
  5. 5 Gamers switch overnight.
  6. 6 Then everybody else.
  7. 7 Every community needs a server.
  8. 8 Every startup's support channel lives here now.
Founders
Jason Citron and Stan Vishnevskiy
Founded
2015, San Francisco
What they do
Voice and text communities.

The story

Citron's studio built a game called Fates Forever that never caught on, along with a good voice chat tool. They dropped the game, shipped the chat to gamers in 2015, and it spread far beyond gaming.