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Clubhouse clones are coming

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Re: Clubhouse clones are coming

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Post by meheleventyone »

freewizard wrote: post #22

Not mentioned by the OP but Telegram also released an update last week to its group voice call feature, which essentially turns a channel or group into a ClubHouse room. https://telegram.org/blog/voice-chats-on-steroids

Discord joined the party as well and just rolled out Stages which is basically the same thing as Clubhouse. That’s going to be super useful for us though as we quite often present to our largish community so having better moderation control is going to help out a lot. I also think having this at the community level is going to be far better than being thought lead at by people who love the sound of their own voices.

Re: Clubhouse clones are coming

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Post by rvz »

Invite only and still no Android app and valued at $1B? Complete horsesh*t from the VC hype machine. (and they know it.)

Now the clones / competitors are here with the same features and have their existing Android audience, Clubhouse probably needs to reassess on why they still exist. (a16z still hyping it through forced notifications)

Sounds like this train is already low on hype.

Downvoters: Ready to explain? Alright, So as I said months ago [0][1][2] "With Twitter and Facebook feature clones coming along, We'll see how Clubhouse fights for survival whilst being 'copied to death'." Today, the clones have already caught up, and 1 month later, Clubhouse STILL has no Android app.

And now you get this from LinkedIn [3]. So, how is this valuation justified as I have already asked months ago? [4]

As the competitors close in, the best time for Clubhouse to announce their Android app should be today. Why have they been unable to release it?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26110642

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26291534

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26524603

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/30/linkedin-confirms-its-work...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883362

Re: Clubhouse clones are coming

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Post by thrower123 »

Clubhouse is going down the exact same route that Quora did. Initially, they seeded the platform with a sense of exclusivity and big name users, but it is rapidly suffering the effect of what happens to any platform as it goes broad and average quality of user goes down.

Re: Clubhouse clones are coming

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Post by nstart »

This seems like an ok time to point to Shaan's twitter thread on why he believes clubhouse will fail [1]. Nothing is guaranteed of course, but it is an entertaining read. It's designed to be a bit over the top, silicon valley esque story style. But the person who wrote it, is writing from their experience of actually launching, and burning out in an attempt to build a similar company which makes the thread that much more interesting.

In any case, it surprises me that Clubhouse is staying in closed mode for so long knowing that the bigger social networks are coming for them, especially Twitter which is where I see the most number of people talking about Clubhouse.

[1] https://twitter.com/ShaanVP/status/1371972261004070913

Re: Clubhouse clones are coming

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Post by arkitaip »

ausbah wrote: post #49

I'm still not convinced that clubhouse is anything more than real time podcasts saturated with linkedin influencers

Far more useless apps have reached far higher heights. In the end, growthies cater primarily to future investors and that means growth, spectacle, FOMO and dark patterns are prioritized over usefulness and innovation.
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