> would want to engineer in-house? It's quite expensive to do so so why not buy a reasonable working solution until you become big enough? Clubhouse is in th

> would want to engineer in-house? It's quite expensive to do so so why not buy a reasonable working solution until you become big enough? Clubhouse is in the end a life style app which from the get to go uses the snake oil of pseudo elitism and exclusiveness to create a flair of it being a high quality serious product independent of weather or not it actually is one. So they do a clever slow grow strategy: - start with invites to grow slowly and with this only have slowly increasing costs of operation - only start with one platform to keep initial cost down - buy in/rent all the tech know-how to reduce initial costs and bring initial products out faster even if it has some quality or security issues - (maybe) hype highly to grow investments fast - later expand to other platforms - later replace bad dependencies with custom solutions