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Comment by sanity31415 | Hacker News Reader

It's very interesting to see Discord used in this way, along with other uses like MidJourney.

Makes me wonder if a service custom-designed as a "general purpose user interface" might be useful to people, it's something I've been thinking about building for a while but need to validate the need first.

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Also I've got a friend who's built a ChatGPT Discord bot - check it out, it's entirely free: https://twitter.com/firtozb/status/1610344330236989440

Why is MidJourney integrated through Discord though? What is the benefit? It seems a bit odd that all the generation prompts are made in public channels, when it could just be done through the web app privately.

I think they went with Discord because it's by far the easiest way to get started. And it still kinda works, although you can get lost in the flood of messages.

The reason they have the generation prompts in the public channels is to generate free marketing around how many people use them. It's like how levelsio only replies to messages on Twitter.

Greetings first commenter! I agree, Discord is pretty amazing because it gives you a lot of features for free that you'd need when starting out. The flip side, just from observing other servers, is that you constantly have to manage the channels. Too many, and people are barely posting in them because they can't find them and/or they're too niche; too few, and you get lost in the torrent of messages in a single channel.

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