Forbes hosted a similar competition during last year’s Forbes Under 30 Summit in Boston.Ībout the 2017 Forbes Under 30 Summit, October 1-4, Boston Nearly all the images you see on the internet are compressed in some way.ĭiscord can afford image compression for the general public.Forbes collaborated with Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary, Co-Founders of Sound Ventures, as well as Boston-based Rough Draft Ventures (powered by General Catalyst), to host a $500,000 global competition for early stage for-profit entrepreneurs who have disruptive and scalable ideas with the potential to change the world for the better.Īshton Kutcher, Guy Oseary and Forbes have committed to a three-year partnership (through 2018) to host for-profit competitions for entrepreneurs under the age of 30.

(and maybe videos) Image compression is cheap, easy, and fast. We also aren't talking about compressing any other files other than images. Ad supported, data selling and widely popular Facebook Messenger offering a 25MB limit for free, and User funded, data protecting and niche chat app Wire offering the same size for free. It's also rather interesting that various different companies with different audiences, business models and reach can offer a larger upload limit for free. This might get some people to leave Nitro, but the vast majority would probably stay. Telling the client to compress the image (rather than compressing the image at server level) would still let Discord keep most of their money, as they wouldn't have to pay for large files. The whole reason why the upload limit is 8MB is to save money. Compressed images would save Discord money, not cost them more.Nitro is bought more for the games, server boosts and whatnot. While I could use those services, I don't really feel like it most of the time. If Nitro only offered higher file limits, the vast majority of people would just use Firefox Send, Google Drive or Imgur. While having a 50MB or 100MB file limits is helpful, it's not usually the main reason why people purchase Nitro. Increased file upload limits would not devalue Nitro that much.If Discord only made money through Nitro, the platform would be unsustainable. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and we may share this aggregate data with our affiliate' 'In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Services, we may conduct research on our customer demographics, interests and behavior based on the information collected. ' Advertising platforms, which include Twitter and Facebook (and whose SDKs are integrated within our Service), may collect information for optimizing advertising campaigns outside of the Service.' Looking at Discord's privacy policy, we can see that Discord sells information to third parties. Discord doesn't make money only from Nitro.

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