> The world needs what Clubhouse is building
Really?
Founders’ Email to Clubhouse Employees
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who launches an IOS first app in 2023? You are telling android users that they are not important
Everyone (who wants to make money from their app)? I own an Android and I'd still launch an iOS app first because the vast majority of mobile revenue comes from iOS, not Android. At the very most I'd use Flutter to launch on both platforms at once but I'd still prioritize the iOS side.
counterpoint: you can outsource android i.e. pay a high quality dev shop to clone your iOS app and adapt it nicely for Android. I've done this several times, to great effect.
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#93Is there a template these companies are working from? > If you are among those impacted, you will receive a calendar invite to a 1:1 meeting with a manager in your department within the next 10 minutes. Dropbox also today: > If you've been impacted, you'll be sent a calendar invitation within the next 30 minutes for a 1:1 with a leader on your team https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/a-message-from-drew
Layoff ops are pretty standardized so I would be surprised if there wasn’t a template that has been commonly agreed upon to be as neutral in tone as possible
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#94As Twitter proved, Clubhouse was a feature and not a product.
For a brief moment, it looked like they were bringing in a new demographic that wasn't active on twitter. So I could've seen a moat there. Agreed on pure tech - never saw it a pure moat in itself.
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#95> Laptops. We will allow everyone who is impacted to keep their company-issued laptops, to help them research and apply for new roles. Is this common?
If their employees all have macbooks that can be wiped remotely then yeah that isn't uncommon at this stage. My company allowed laid off folks to keep their laptops after the wipe. Probably just avoids a logistical headache getting the machines back from remote employees.
Big time logistical headache. Not only the cost of shipping itself, but then also reimbursing all of the employees for that expense. Then receiving hundreds of units and then having to check them. What are you going to do with these machines? Now spend time to sell them? Store them? By the time you're ramping up hiring, the machines are outdated. Then you need to pay IT to clean them up and refurbish them. And your new employees don't get the dopamine hit from opening a new MacBook and latest hardware.
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#96I had completely forgotten Clubhouse even existed. Surprised it's not more than 50% laid off.
Yup. I expected this to be a “we’re shutting down, thanks for all the fish” type message. And it sounds like if not for the astronomical raises they did in the good times that’s what it would be. They’ve been hemorrhaging users since Dec 2020.
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#97IMO the real problem with Clubhouse was it was for the intelligentsia and their hangers-on. That's not a profitable market. Advertising dollars chase the masses, and what the masses want is, well, celebrities, the good looking, the attractive, and the funny. The public is chasing dopamine hits, and advertisers chase the public.
Yea it’s not clear how you collect money on the product aside from charging a subscription fee. Random ad interludes don’t work that well in a live setting, and most people aren’t looking at the app for most of the time they’re using to make visual ads work.
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#98> The world needs what Clubhouse is building
No
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#994 months severance and they get to keep their laptop. Very generous for a small startup.
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#100It's a shame, the idea is good, just not defensible against copy cats. I think they missed an opportunity to pivot into voice chat for websites/apps as a service. I see big value in how Discord does ambient voice chat as a feature of a server, and I think that could translate well into smaller communities that live outside Discord in websites/apps. Provide the service in an easy to use slick API/SDK, and handle all t…
There's already a handful of well known companies providing that. It wouldn't surprise me if Clubhouse was built off of one of these APIs already.
Such as? I haven't found any plug n play solutions, just APIs like Twilio.