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Post by azinman2 »

picodguyo wrote: post #69
echelon wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do apps like this survive and grow? Giants can clone the entire product with a small team. I'm worried about this exact problem. Edit: First thought that comes to mind is filing a few patents and then throwing 50% of funding into a lawsuit against the first giant to clone you. This is traditionally not the way , but with the incumbents so nimble and readily able to pick off good ideas, it seems like it might be t…

What would they patent exactly? Group voice chat? I imagine someone patented that decades ago and if anything, Clubhouse will be licensing or fighting patent trolls soon if they aren't already.

The way they do moderated group chat. It isn't just a giant chat room.

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Post by azinman2 »

manigandham wrote: post #94

What a strange app. Are people really that amazed by conference calls? It seems the entire play right now is exclusivity, not product.

It's not a conference call. It's a moderated panel, and they have many famous / interesting people participating on their platform.

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Post by manigandham »

azinman2 wrote: post #123
manigandham wrote: post #94

What a strange app. Are people really that amazed by conference calls? It seems the entire play right now is exclusivity, not product.

It's not a conference call. It's a moderated panel, and they have many famous / interesting people participating on their platform.

Aren't conference calls also moderated? Otherwise they would just be a broadcast.

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Post by xiii1408 »

BelenusMordred wrote: post #106
xiii1408 wrote: post #61

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> Yet, with no Android app and an increasing amount of competitors copying the hell out of Clubhouse, I can only see this going in the way of Meerkat, Yik Yak and Periscope. (By being shut down) We'll of course have to wait and see, but I don't imagine that Clubhouse will be entirely displaced. What's unique about Clubhouse is not the concept of a Clubhouse room itself, which is essentially a Discord channel with bas…

> Clubhouse is one of the very few online places I've seen people willing to speak frankly on sensitive political issues in Chinese This is more an effect of you being exposed to Chinese people rather than some new phenomenon. Mainland politics is everywhere online, it's in the digital spaces that Westerners rarely visit though.

Would love to hear examples of other platforms.

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Post by antoniuschan99 »

iforgetti wrote: post #73
echelon wrote: post #40

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> Giants will clone and make a piece of shit. Facebook does a damn good job of sinking ships. The only two survivors I can think of are TikTok and Snapchat. And Snapchat pivoted.

Serious question, what did snap chat pivot to?

I would like to know too. Snapchat was ephermerial messages, stories, and filters? Tik tok is reels?

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Post by dylan604 »

paxys wrote: post #55
fastball wrote: post #16

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They're taking VC. The strat here is probably to get as many users onboarded as possible ("of course I'll support them directly on Clubhouse, it's the cheapest way to do it!") and then at some point once people have grown accustomed to supporting creators through clubhouse they'll start taking a cut.

You would think they need to grow user count as quickly as possible (like all other VC funded startups), but the fact that they don't have a web app, don't have an Android app and don't have open signups on iOS leaves me very confused about their entire strategy. Is Clubhouse just being pushed by VCs and other tech celebrities as their personal soapbox, or does it have potential to be something beyond that?

Cynical me says they are building up an audience, and then they'll start injecting ads into the streams.

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Post by seppin »

rogerdickey wrote: post #47
SteveMorin wrote: post #3

I wonder how this will compete with things like substack. Will creator support like clubhouse's payments, undermine or enhance things like payments from platforms like substack. I use both for my newsletter: For example my newsletter ProductiveGrowth , weekly stories about productivity, leadership, motivation, and anything else that helps us and our teams grow and be more productive. I don't use either payment option…

This seems like one to downvote

"Stay tuned to find out!"

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Post by antoniuschan99 »

manigandham wrote: post #124
azinman2 wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not a conference call. It's a moderated panel, and they have many famous / interesting people participating on their platform.

Aren't conference calls also moderated? Otherwise they would just be a broadcast.

That’s the gist of it. A moderated conference call with famous people on it. So it is like a podcast/conference call.

I tried it, but got bored of it :(. I think it’s because of the live nature of it and the fact there could be so many guests on at once.

I think clubhouse style audio and live stream selling (like qvc but on Instagram or Tik Tok) are the current and future trends.

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