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Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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I'm sorry if this is a bit insensitive, but if we're talking about a sound conversation based platform, isn't it a bit absurd for deaf communities to be upset?

No, it's not absurd to complain about stuff being moved to places you can't participate in.

Well, what I mean is that it’s kinda like being upset that people are going to concerts or listening to radio.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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post #55

I 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…

We've had Internet radio for almost 2 decades; it's called "podcasts". It's literally eaten "real" radio; NPR probably has more podcasts than broadcasts now.

That seems to support christopherslee's point. NPR already had what it needed institutionally to do podcasts people wanted to listen to and the reach to make sure they have a chance to reach an audience. I could start one and probably do okay because I already know a bit about audio engineering and marketing and can make my own music, but most people start from 0.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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post #47

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What kind of useful answers can be found on Quora these days?

I use it for just about everything. In fact if I could limit my google search answers to just quora, stackoverflow and reddit I would be satisfied.

Interesting.

    site:quora.com OR site:stackoverflow.com search query

results in mostly one or the other winning on Google. However, they are the only ones who show up in the results.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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No, it's not absurd to complain about stuff being moved to places you can't participate in.

It's the same situation with everything being a video now. I do better with diagrams and text, but now I have to sit through someone jabbering for 9 minutes for 1 minute of content to please the algorithm. And as someone who wants to make how-tos, getting any traffic to text these days is nearly impossible.

Oh I’m with you on that one. It’s like the lazy less effective formats are cannibalizing all the others.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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But quora is still around and very useful- maybe even more so than during the hype period

What kind of useful answers can be found on Quora these days?

Just an hour ago, I was looking for beaches in Florida - Quora provided some great answers for me

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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It's two different companies, which I guess was part of the motivation for clubhouse.io to change name to shortcut, since clubhouse.com became massively popular in a very short time

Heh yeah apparently there's more than one Clubhouse. I've never heard of any other besides the Jira competitor, and the OP just said "Clubhouse," not "Clubhouse social media" or anything like that. But I've been downvoted into oblivion, so I guess people think I'm trolling or something

Imagine my confusion when I started a new job and was told we use clubhouse for issue tracking - I had only heard about the social media app

Silly that you're getting downvoted - especially when no one is posting any reasons for their downvote

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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No, it's not absurd to complain about stuff being moved to places you can't participate in.

It's the same situation with everything being a video now. I do better with diagrams and text, but now I have to sit through someone jabbering for 9 minutes for 1 minute of content to please the algorithm. And as someone who wants to make how-tos, getting any traffic to text these days is nearly impossible.

Huh? What serious subject has only video tutorials and no text/diagrams? I also don't understand your argument about traffic to text at all, we're on a high-traffic mostly-text site right now with plenty of how-to style content.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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post #38

It has died, they just don’t know it yet. The network has now been poached to death by the typical influencer expert user looking to build a brand or grow some kind of following. This happens to all new social networks now because new and novel marketing channels give the best ROI, and influencers want to suck these dry before users become harder to influence.

A marketer friend recommended this guy, and I decided to give his book a read. The guy is Gary Vaynerchuk and the book is "Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too".

It's been some time, but I can vividly remember his advice on exploring new social networks in order to generate ROI on new marketing channels. Basically what you are saying but with a lot of inferred 'bro' in the process.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

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It became Shortcut: https://shortcut.com/

Not the same clubhouse, but is shortcut any good?

Trello too simple.

JIRA too complex.

Shortcut shits right in the sweet spot. Try it. It works well with small 2 man teams, and large 65 man teams.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse?

#90
Clubhouse was popular because influential people were on it, behind a wall. This meant if you were an early adopter, you had social capital.

The moment Clubhouse opened its doors to the gen pop, it was doomed.

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