Discord - A New Way to Chat with Friends & Communities

Why is Discord such a good GTM for AI applications?

Text interface. Most users are just generating images, videos, and audio in these Discord servers. Prompts are easily expressible in simple text commands. It’s why we’ve seen image generation strategies like Midjourney (all-in-one) flourish in Discord while more raw diffusion models haven’t grown a... See more

Major social platforms today are noisy. People have found refuge in groups (iMessage, Fortnite worlds and group chats). If Facebook is Walmart, tools and communities like Discord (ie:gamers) or Public.com* (ie: casual stock traders) are boutique stores

Besides the three dimensions, scale, reliability, and the speed of iteration, there are other dimensions that have a major impact on the shape of the solution. Consider the following:

Speed (time to response)

Slow : Results needed in minutes

e.g. portfolio optimization

Fast : Results needed in milliseconds

e.g. high-frequency trading

Scale (requests/sec... See more

Discord confronted the challenge head-on. The team paid for Reddit ads (another “no-no” for early consumer companies) that directly called out incumbents TeamSpeak and Skype. Risky? Maybe. But it got gamers’ attention, generating spirited arguments about the pros and cons of each product.

-Discord servers are too chaotic

The easiest way to onboard your first community members is to create a Telegram or a Geneva group. Discord and Slack are also reasonable solutions but are more useful at a later stage when you need to create different channels around different subjects.

Do centralized platforms always win due to speed? It appears that history will repeat itself (web2x2) in two potential ways: extensive protocol innovation is a fool's errand, and Slack will always outpace Ethereum's IRC, as with web2. Could some decentralized projects look more like an empowered engineering team than a standards body meeting (failu... See more