I assume that the initial hype was mostly paid for and then the payments stopped at some point, so the hype stopped too.
Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?
131–140 of 169 posts
Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you are doing an assignment for school that could be answered in 10 words but the teacher has placed a 500 words lower limit for it
Luckily we have GPT-3 now...
I would love to use GPT-3 in reverse, to convert search results into the 30 words that actually answer my query.
Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
But quora is still around and very useful- maybe even more so than during the hype period
I've found Quora to be just full of spam these days. They don't take the problem seriously at all. And they keep trying terrible and spammy incentivization tactics to keep people engaged.
Yeah, I noticed the SEO folks are now trying to game it, making the content even more useless. Self promotion is a huge issue with Quora.
Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?
#134I remember Balaji and Naval promoting it so much (one founder is of Indian-origin I think) like it's just gonna break the entire social media industry and whatnot.
A breakthrough.
Now they won't even mention it. I hate (and laugh) that they don't take a stand on what they promote. Their tweets so ephemeral. Yesterday it was Clubhouse, today it's bitcoin, tomorrow it's xyz. No spine. Just surviving via capitalism with hit or miss investments.
Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?
#135If you have a good idea and small business around it, how do you protect your business from big companies?
Because twitter literally took Clubhouse’s business.
Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?
#136I thought it was interesting to think about what Clubhouse was displacing. It felt the most analogous to radio. So, what could you do if you had radio at internet scale? Or what would it take to make internet scale radio successful? In my mind, it came down to how challenging it would be to produce and monetize content. It's non trivial work. Producing a good radio show that's worth listening to takes a lot of time a…
Clubhouse filled in for going out and talking to people. I don’t think their decline is any great mystery. Concern about the pandemic declined, people started going out again, and stopped listening in on audio chats on the Internet. Twitter Spaces is not doing great either, but it doesn’t really matter because it’s just a feature, not a whole business.
If you could go out and talk to celebrities, sure. Or hear off the cuff celebrities from different worlds mix.
That’s what made it so exciting in the beginning… making it feel like you were part of an exclusive club even if you weren’t a famous person. Eventually the hype fades because the bar lowers, and the most interesting people move on.
Your point about Covid is also fair… the timing was good.
Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
somehow Quora is still around though - how?
A fairly large percent of my google searches contain answers from Quora on page 1. They’re playing the SEO game well. And from that comes traffic, which I’m guessing they must be monetizing. It’s the new “Yahoo Answers”
Yes, something is off with Google's ranking of Quora pages. On many topics reddit have more relevant content but Quora turns up higher on search results.
Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?
#138Similar to Quora -- the hype was based on the initial exclusivity/SV celebrity factor. Once things opened up, average quality of content went way down.
[deleted]
Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?
#139Similar to Quora -- the hype was based on the initial exclusivity/SV celebrity factor. Once things opened up, average quality of content went way down.
But quora is still around and very useful- maybe even more so than during the hype period
I find Reddit to be much more useful these days when searching for answers.
Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?
#140If you have a good idea and small business around it, how do you protect your business from big companies? Because twitter literally took Clubhouse’s business.
It's very hard if your product could be a feature.
"Dropbox is a feature, not a product" - Steve Jobs