if you as an entrepreneur hate cluely, you're a boomer who's going to get left behind. tech is no longer the moat, distribution is. going viral is hard and is a skill.

i don't get the equivalency you're trying to draw. cluely is that ai app that gives you all the answers during interviews right? how does that enable virality?

backend eng; full-stack curious

writer, icon, retired rave queen

they're hitting all the notes: parties that get shut down, exotic dancers in the office etc

ahhh thanks -- tbh haven't been following the product or the founder's trajectory since that original video came out with the kid on a date

it doesn't!

cluely is a stage for roy to become an avatar of san francisco counterculture, it doesn't matter whether the product succeeds or fails or is just overhyped shovelware 

roy was very smart to go after established influencers for core team and that paradigm regardless of product probably wins on a long time horizon