[stingraycharles]

Almost all the comments on this post seem incredibly negative and snarky comments like “wow they still exist”.

Please consider that they are a small team, have gone under what can only be considered a monumental explosive growth, and given circumstances, shipping an app from scratch in less than 2.5months can be considered pretty good.

[stale2002]

The technical problems being solved are certainly interesting.

But the snark that I have, is less directed at the clubhouse team, than it is against the cult-like users of clubhouse that I would run into or argue with, X number of months ago, that were clearly taking an app way too seriously.

If you live by the Hype, then you will die by it.

Maybe clubhouse will turn into something interesting eventually.

But it is clear, that all of those influencers and users, who were making out clubhouse to be some world changing app, that will revolutionize social dynamics, were wrong.

[Kosirich]

How much VC hype was due to sincere wish to promote something they believed and found use for and how much of it was shilling something that they have invested in. I'm not that active on Twitter, but for a while it was like a gospel "Clubhouse is the future"

[dpritchett]

I had to mute the word clubhouse on Twitter to keep from getting too cranky about it.

Avoiding VCs and accounts in their orbit helped as well.

[ardit33]

they had lots of funding though.... A 10mil round in June-July 2020, that's more than 14 months ago. Plenty of time to get a decent base feature android app.

Also, they haven't added any features to the iOS app, and their voice quality in the height of it was really lacking (low qual. and lots of hickups), and there were room limitations, etc....

Anyway, it is remarkable what they achieved, as most of us (or our projects) will never get to that growth curve hype they did get, and hats up to them, and yet it is disappointing at the same time as it fizzled out.

Feels like Friendster from 2003. Explosive growth for a while, but struggled to scale with features and usage load until it fell away.

[mynegation]

10mil, yes, but a lot of it probably went into the infra, bandwidth, and marketing (getting famous people and influencers into the rooms)

[CydeWeys]

Also, $10M is really very little money to build an entire big business that everyone knows about out if. Large companies will spend more than that on a single advertising campaign without blinking.

[respondo2134]

Interesting comment, but can you share some first-hand experience where a company spent $10M on a single ad compaign? It is a shit-load of money; anyone saying otherwise has never been remotelly close to anything near 10 million.

[missedthecue]

Citi Bank’s 'Live Richly' marketing campaign famously cost more than $1 billion dollars before it was terminated.

Amazon spends almost a billion a month on marketing. Procter & Gamble is almost the same. L'oreal is around $850 million a month in marketing spend. I'm sure some of their campaigns run into the tens of millions easily. In fact, I think it would be pretty difficult to spend a billion dollars on marketing every thirty days without at least one individual campaign spending more than $10 million.