[gowld]

> 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]

Their 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]

The 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."

[segasaturn]

This 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]

Despite 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.

[rchaud]

No surprise then that it became a hotbed of hustlebros and MLM salespeople within months.