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Shipping Clubhouse on Android in ten weeks

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Re: Shipping Clubhouse on Android in ten weeks

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Post by ramoz »

As someone in tech I always thought the core experience was a quality product.

As an extinct user, the experience increasingly diminished the more "creators" were enabled / whatever started becoming of the "creator-first" mantra. It last felt like i was on a TV guide scanning through a bunch of paid programming, c-class doctor phils, and had lost the connections I made / ability to do the whole collective learning that felt really powerful at one point.

Clubhouse felt like "something else" for a bit, and then suddenly it didn't. I stopped using the app right around when android was released. I think Android users missed out.

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Post by raina_rain »

cddotdotslash wrote: post #5

I think they missed the hype train for this one. Anecdotal, but every person I know who used Clubhouse during the height of the pandemic has completely or nearly completely stopped using it in favor of outside or in-person socialization now.

Maybe it will catch a new wave with Android release.

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Post by simonswords82 »

When Clubhouse was first launched people in my LinkedIn network were holding Clubhouse meetings that I could not join because I am on Android.

I had FOMO for all of a week, and now I don't care. There is not room in the current ecosystem for another meeting app. I don't see a long term future for this app.

Re: Shipping Clubhouse on Android in ten weeks

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Post by rPlayer6554 »

gmaster1440 wrote: post #24

Great write up, and kudos to the team for delivering under pressure. Would be nice to read why the team decided not to build a React Native app from the beginning.

Ironic to see so many HN people complaining that their Android app missed the hype train but HN is usually where I go to get my daily dose of React hate. If they had used react native they might have released them at the same time.

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Post by colesantiago »

I'm very curious if there were any reasons or design decisions on why Clubhouse didn't go for React Native from the start?

Would it be fair to say they could have gotten to market quicker had they went with RN?

Would love someone from the team to elaborate on this as Agora also has RN SDK's as well as Firebase.

Re: Shipping Clubhouse on Android in ten weeks

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Post by tomComb »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #16

Don't get hung up on the "Clubhouse" part of the headline. This is a good, albeit somewhat sparse, article about building an Android app on a rushed timeframe. It's amazing to see how quickly a production-grade app can be produced by a team that arrives with the knowledge and experience for connecting the right frameworks and apps together. However, my experience matches the author's in that the hardest work often is…

Given how long it took them to begin the process of creating an Android app one has to wonder whether they were after some sort of exclusivity.

Re: Shipping Clubhouse on Android in ten weeks

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Post by kevmo314 »

colesantiago wrote: post #28

I'm very curious if there were any reasons or design decisions on why Clubhouse didn't go for React Native from the start? Would it be fair to say they could have gotten to market quicker had they went with RN? Would love someone from the team to elaborate on this as Agora also has RN SDK's as well as Firebase.

Having dealt with Agora's RN SDK, honestly looking back I think it would've been easier to just write two completely separate native apps.
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