Anjney Midha (a16z General Partner) describes how portfolio startup Luma leveraged a Discord app to find early users before launching traditional web or mobile products.
“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.”
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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 MitraJun 23, 2024▶ 0:14How Discord Became a Developer Platform
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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”
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