Ask HN: Which startups have the most interesting pivot stories?

Re:Ask HN: Which startups have the most interesting pivot st... by hnsanket on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @02:42PM (#32741319)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Which startups have the most interesting pivot st... by bjord on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @03:11PM (#32741807)

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)

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Re:Ask HN: Which startups have the most interesting pivot st... by emptysea on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @04:26PM (#32742752)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Which startups have the most interesting pivot st... by pnw on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @04:49PM (#32743011)

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.

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