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> Clubhouse was a kinda cool social network that came out at exactly the right time during COVID. Alternatively, is was a COVID-specific fad with a doomed use
by gowld 4y ago
> Clubhouse was a kinda cool social network that came out at exactly the right time during COVID.
Alternatively, is was a COVID-specific fad with a doomed user experience / network model that never expanded beyond the SV cultural bubble.
- Prbeek 4y agoTheir IOS first app and invite only launch alienated many potential users and gave an opening to Twitter to launch spaces with a huge audience.
- nikanj 4y agoThe invite-only launch was a selling point. "It's a exclusive service, but if you score an invite, you might have a casual chat with a bunch of billionaires and SV bigwigs."
- rchaud 4y agoNo surprise then that it became a hotbed of hustlebros and MLM salespeople within months.
- segasaturn 4y agoThis may be surprising to people in Palo Alto but 99.9% of regular working people have nothing to say to billionaires and SV influencers, outside of maybe some profanities. There's no way a product with that as the premise would have had a future outside of its ivory tower niche.
- fsckboy 4y agoDespite it's origins, ivory tower means, in the sense of being out of touch with common people, academia. It does not mean being out of touch because rich or nobility.