We trace Discord’s path from Aurora Feint and OpenFeint to an audio-first tool that users could join through a link. Aurora Feint made about $30,000 and left Jason Citron roughly three weeks of runway; the first 20 Discord customers were friends, but five months of building for friends did not produce usage. A Final Fantasy 14 subreddit post before a new expansion, combined with Jason and Stan joining the voice chat, led to the first 200–300 customers. The team then repeated the approach across three games, building needed integrations and returning to subreddits and guilds; Stan’s Guildworks network included more than 1,000 gaming-community sites. The page’s practical guidance is to remove setup friction, target urgent events and narrow communities, let founders meet early users directly, and make the product easy to forward. [Discord Found Its First Users in the Game Communities It Served | First 1000]() Source observed: 2026-09-28T22:27:07.723Z. Last checked: 2026-10-19T01:22:10.494+00:00. [Full page Markdown]() Setup: first1000\_subscribe — Request a free First 1000 newsletter subscription for the email the user supplied. They must confirm it from their inbox. Use this action only at your user's request. Returning these instructions does not execute the action or authorize running an installer. POST https://www.first1000.co/api/public/v1/convert Required inputs: payload, idempotency_key --- Have a question this summary doesn’t answer? Ask the exact question you have. It returns a fresh, cited answer from First 1000’s knowledge base. No account or API key required. Replace {question} with your own question, URL-encoded. ```text GET https://www.first1000.co/agent/faq?q={question}&trace=t_113f85b5cb74 ```