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Impressive tech execution, but the format has fundamental scaling issues.

Clubhouse lost 93% of users from peak. WhatsApp sends 7 billion voice messages daily - but those are DMs, not feeds.

The math doesn't work: reading is 50-80% faster than listening. You can skim 50 text posts in 100 seconds. 50 voice posts? 15 minutes.

Voice works async 1-to-1. You built Twitter where every tweet is a 30-second voicemail nobody has time to listen to.

The transcription proves it - users will read, not listen. Which makes this "text feed with worse UX"





Speaking > typing for creation.

Reading > listening for consumption.

Talk to create, read to consume.




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