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Discord

also referred to as: discord app

includes Discord Embedded Apps

24 statements across 6 episodes · 12 bullish · 0 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Sep 2, 2020 by Seth Sivak · said 139 times in 24 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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brought up most by Anjani Mitra (30), Jason Citrin (27), Seth Sivak (24), Olivia Moore (8), Balaji Srinivasan (7), Kevin Chou (3), Anjney Midha (3), Justine Moore (2)

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Everything said about Discord, oldest first

Sep 2, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sivak: Unrestricted Community Discord Meme Channels Drove Top Spellbreak Marketing
“We made the meme channel accessible to everyone, not just testers. And I think that was really important because it meant that tons of people that didn't have a key yet could still be making memes. And the people that did have that did have a key, the testers …”
Seth Sivak Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 19:24 From Unknown Title to Viral Game: 12 Growth Lessons From Spellbreak
Sep 2, 2020 positive
Opinion
Sivak: Discord Is Far Superior to Email or Social Channels for Community Building
“And we knew that discord was going to be really useful for us because we could engage directly with them and be able to tap in to that audience and much better way than we could through any other social channel that was currently out there or through email.”
Seth Sivak Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 10:35 From Unknown Title to Viral Game: 12 Growth Lessons From Spellbreak
Sep 2, 2020
Insight
Sivak: Game studios should use existing community platforms over proprietary forums
“And more and more, I think you're better off choosing an existing platform than running your own forums.”
Seth Sivak Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 25:29 From Unknown Title to Viral Game: 12 Growth Lessons From Spellbreak
Sep 2, 2020 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Only one-third of Spellbreak's early Discord members were playtesters
“At any given time, only about like a third of the people in the discord were actually testers.”
Seth Sivak Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 12:48 From Unknown Title to Viral Game: 12 Growth Lessons From Spellbreak
Sep 2, 2020 positive
What-if
Sivak: Spellbreak Community Required Mandatory Playtest Voice Chats to Form
“And I think without us really pushing these play tests, I don't think it would have actually happened because I think that that sort of loose social connection of just being in text chat or whatever is not the same as like forcing you to play with the same gro…”
Seth Sivak Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 15:07 From Unknown Title to Viral Game: 12 Growth Lessons From Spellbreak
Sep 2, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Spellbreak Discord server doubled from 30k to 60k members in four days
“And our Discord server doubled in size in four days. We went from 30,000 to 60,000 people in the course of four days.”
Seth Sivak Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 18:39 From Unknown Title to Viral Game: 12 Growth Lessons From Spellbreak
Nov 16, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Balaji Srinivasan: Crypto-Discord hybrids will emerge to track community collective action
“In fact, messaging apps, discords are not built for tracking collective action. This is kind of the unification of cryptocurrency and discord. You will get something that actually tracks that and has leaderboards for people and everybody can see who did what c…”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 59:26 The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
May 31, 2024 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Viggle AI Restricts Creation Behind a Three-Step Discord Onboarding Process
“Now what Viggle does is it's only available in Discord to create. There are three steps you need to go through to be able to create a Viggle. That includes reading the rules. That also involves actually going through the mechanics of how to build the right seq…”
Bryan Kim May 31, 2024 ▶ 8:50 7 Ways to Boost Retention (Both Pre- and Post-AI)
Jun 4, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
AI music generator Suno debuted among top web apps via Discord
“And we've seen that be fairly predictive now of Suno was one of the highest ranking new companies that we saw on the list this time, and they just sprouted out of a successful Discord.”
Olivia Moore Jun 4, 2024 ▶ 10:47 The Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps
Jun 4, 2024 positive
Insight
Discord invite traffic predicts which generative AI products will launch top apps
“Like, if you wanted to predict what's gonna be on the list in six months, Looking at the Discord data, you can even track, like, which Discord pages are getting the most invite traffic or things like that as a proxy for interest. And many of those companies th…”
Olivia Moore Jun 4, 2024 ▶ 10:26 The Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps
Jun 4, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Midjourney generates nearly 1% of all invite traffic across Discord
“Like Midjourney itself is driving, you know, close to a percent of all kind of Discord invite traffic, which is very cool.”
Olivia Moore Jun 4, 2024 ▶ 11:49 The Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps
Jun 23, 2024
Assertion Supported
Discord built proprietary WebRTC streaming and serverless networking infrastructure
“The company had built its own WebRTC streaming service had built its own voice and video infra its own real-time comms infra. We built a bunch of serverless networking”
Anjani Mitra Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 21:12 How Discord Became a Developer Platform
Jun 23, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Citron: Game development will increasingly pivot toward niche topics and mechanics
“I think we're gonna start to see more and more games that are focused on more and more kind of niche topics and niche mechanics.”
Jason Citrin Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 30:34 How Discord Became a Developer Platform
Jun 23, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Midha: Luma gained 30K–40K community members in four days via Discord
“And before they even had a website or a mobile app, they launched as a discord app. And I think what that resulted in was like, I think in, in three or four days, they had 30, 40,000 people in the community show up.”
Anjani Mitra Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 40:55 How Discord Became a Developer Platform
Jun 23, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Citrin: Gaming and social hangouts remain primary use case for Discord
“Throughout all of it, gaming and playing games with your friends and hanging out with your friends was always the main thing that people were doing, even if they would go spend time in a public community or, you know, futzing around with generative AI or somet…”
Jason Citrin Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 11:19 How Discord Became a Developer Platform
Jun 23, 2024
Disclosure
Citron is building an arcade shooter to test Discord's platform
“I have, like, a small side project I'm working on right now, which is a game kind of like this. It's like a arcade shooter that has kind of a leaderboard mechanic, but with sort of like a modern kind of roguelike Vibe on it. Anyway, It's just like random stuff…”
Jason Citrin Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 23:15 How Discord Became a Developer Platform
Jun 23, 2024
Assertion Supported
Midjourney's public Discord server has around 20 million users
“Yeah, I think their public server is, yeah, it's about that size. It's pretty large.”
Jason Citrin Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 26:55 How Discord Became a Developer Platform
Jun 23, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Citrin: Discord rebuilt core voice tech three times early on
“We had to rebuild, you know, the voice tech three times”
Jason Citrin Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 9:17 How Discord Became a Developer Platform
Jun 23, 2024
Assertion Supported
Citron: Discord was built starting January 2015 and launched May 2015
“We started building it in January 2015, and then brought it to market in May 2015”
Jason Citrin Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 7:22 How Discord Became a Developer Platform
Jun 23, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Citrin: Discord originally capped group size at 30 to 50 users
“The max group size on Discord, I think, was like, 30 people. Maybe 50.”
Jason Citrin Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 10:22 How Discord Became a Developer Platform
Jun 23, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Citron: Most Discord activity occurs in small groups under 15 people
“People mostly on Discord spend their time hanging out with their friends in these kind of smaller invite-only spaces with like, you know, less than 15 people per se.”
Jason Citrin Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 17:26 How Discord Became a Developer Platform
Jun 23, 2024
Disclosure
Discord built internal games for years to test its embedded app platform
“Rather than just opening it up, we actually built a few games ourselves to really test the platform, make sure that it was designed well, that it worked for players, that the interaction loops were good and that, you know, took a couple years to kind of sort t…”
Jason Citrin Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 20:40 How Discord Became a Developer Platform
Jun 23, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Midha: Developers built 20,000 Discord activities generating 4B daily minutes
“Just in the last three weeks since launch, developers have built over 20,000 new activities on the platform that's generating four billion minutes of user interaction per day.”
Anjani Mitra Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 0:14 How Discord Became a Developer Platform
Mar 15, 2025
Insight
Midha: Most Discord voice activity is casual, low-energy hanging out
“You know, we spend a lot of time at Discord and, you know, a huge amount of Discord usages in voice channels, and when you look, when you actually kind of spend time looking at and trying to observe what the shape of a great conversation and voice is on Discor…”
Anjney Midha Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 55:15 Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
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