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This provides a very strong incentive for bad actors on Clubhouse to create rooms to ask for money under false/scammy pretenses, and Clubhouse has an unclear moderation policy for that.
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If you read the linked announcement: > 100% of the payment will go to the creator. The person sending the money will also be charged a small card processing fee, which will go directly to our payment processing partner, Stripe. Clubhouse will take nothing.
It's still a risky business model, since in certain fraud cases it will be left holding the bag for chargebacks if it has released the money to a fraudster but they don't have a revenue stream proportional to the payment amount to cover whatever percentage of the transactions are fraudulent.
1/ This concerns me because I worry that clubhouse will not be sustainable.
2/ What is the incentive for them long-term to maintain this payment framework as well as to curate their network?
I don’t understand why they are not keeping a larger percentage for themselves. 1/ This concerns me because I worry that clubhouse will not be sustainable. 2/ What is the incentive for them long-term to maintain this payment framework as well as to curate their network?
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The "closed beta" is the marketing strat – people getting FOMO because they can't listen to a convo on CH. "Anyone have a CH invite?" was something I was seeing a lot of on Twitter over the past yearish. FOMO is one helluva drug.
Sure, if done well that works great to generate buzz up to a certain point. Right now though I doubt there's anyone left who really wants a Clubhouse invite but can't get one (so the "exclusivity" thing isn't really driving anyone anymore), and the casual passers-by aren't going to bother jumping through hoops and will just move on.
unless you don't have an iPhone. you can FOMO until the cows come home if you're an android person.
I don’t understand why they are not keeping a larger percentage for themselves. 1/ This concerns me because I worry that clubhouse will not be sustainable. 2/ What is the incentive for them long-term to maintain this payment framework as well as to curate their network?
Also the front page of Clubhouse is just utter nonsense. So much influencer/entrepreneur-bro/bullshit. What I like about something like reddit is that while the default front page is quite trashy, you can curate it with subreddits to get a better experience. Clubhouse, probably due to lack of content, just gives you a mound of trash and expects you to pick out the good bits.