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Citron: Hundreds of Discord embedded apps will launch within eight months

Jason Citrin · How Discord Became a Developer Platform · Jun 23, 2024 · at 36:06

Jason Citron is co-founder and CEO of Discord. He addresses developer activity following the March 2024 launch of Discord's embedded app SDK.

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“I suspect that there are probably, you know, 20,000 people poking around. I think there's thousands of them that are, like, actually really making something. And so, you know, I expect we'll probably see hundreds of those things come to market over the next six or eight months.”

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