This is not what killed clubhouse. In fact, clubhouse instantly got worse when they launched the android app...

Are you implying that the Clubhouse got worse because they brought in Android users? Because, if you are, that's pretty ......

I think that's what happened regardless of how it sounds. Until it was an elitist iPhone only app, it had a cool vibe around it, but I suspected once they open the floodgates most people will realize how little value it has. Then they probably couldn't handle the traffic and new issues. I'm not saying there's any problem with Android users, but building a community on a single mobile platform for a long time then mixing it with another was probably a bad move.

Clubhouse from the beginning was just a bunch of vapid hot air about how cool Clubhouse was, without any substantive backing behind the supposed coolness except for all the VC-backed users constantly saying how cool it was.

When Clubhouse finally opened up to a wider audience of people who weren't being incentivized to use it, new users churned out almost immediately because it wasn't actually very cool at all.

Basically, the story of Clubhouse was the story of Google Glass.

It worked for Instagram - Clubhouse's failure was far more spectacular.

Sharing pretty pics is easy to get and easy to do. Listening into a random conference calls is much harder to sell and even harder to scale.

Clubhouse was funny. By the time I finally got access and off the waitlist it was already pretty much dead.

Instagram came out at a time (2010) when android phones were crap, and iphones owned the smartphone space everywhere, I don't think it is a valid comparison.

Clubhouse was killed by Twitter Spaces.

Clubhouse was a stupid product, it was just putting all the people who were most annoying in school into one room so they could tire themselves out. Nobody wants to listen to that.