[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.