[hnsanket]

Discord was probably supposed to be a gaming company but now it's a lot more than something related to just gaming

[bjord]

pretty sure the discord as a whole was a pivot away from a video game (I believe they extracted the chat feature they'd built for the game and ran with that)

[emptysea]

I think that’s actually the Slack origin story you’re thinking of, but honestly discord could have the same origin.

[pnw]

Slack and Discord have a lot in common. Both were the founders second attempt at a game company that morphed into a chat platform.

Jason previously founded Aurora Feint, which became the social platform OpenFeint, acquired by Gree.