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Ask HN: Will Clubhouse Survive?

8 pointslukasfischer18 comments

I‘m wondering what you think.

Clubhouse is getting boring.

It's filled with self-proclaimed life coaches, marketing gurus, Bitcoin maximalists, NFT shills, and armchair philosophers. All the other rooms are in foreign languages, probably talking about the same things.

Stalking Lex Fridman and listening to Naval gets old. Elon Musk never shows up. Every room I start ends up getting filled with the above-mentioned populations.

I'm not sure why I keep tuning in, but I don't suspect it will last. I know others feel the same way.

Unless Clubhouse makes some obvious improvements, mainly letting users filter out specific keywords and languages, I suspect it won't survive mass-adoption.

I fully agree.

Yep this right here. I tried to start a niche room for my podcast listeners but had to jump through too many hoops.

I think they can pivot into something useful but in its current form it doesnt’ have much value for me for all the reasons you’ve stated.

It’s full of pretentious people trying to sell themselves. Not very nutritious to me.

Exactly! Its selling point was that it had good conversations, but the bar has dropped drastically.

28 days ago I wrote "I am a strong sell on ClubHouse at a $2b valuation. Just like Medium and Quora, once the masses are allowed on, the noise will get too high and the signal will get lost." I, if anything, feel this stronger now.

It's going to be tough considering the major players already cloned their service.

Twitter: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-spaces-idUSKBN2B3...

Facebook/IG: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/10/22276645/facebook-clubhou...

TikTok: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-china-clubhouse-copycats-...

I'm curious, do you think we'd be having this conversation today if they had released an Android app?

This conversation is inevitable, but would it be happening sooner or later if Android users had access to Clubhouse?

Audio has taken off and I’m sure companies will figure out how to make billions off of it, but what they call innovation is boring to me. How about live-transcribe every conversation and allow me to subscribe to topics, so when someone is talking about a specific topic I can be alerted? How about automatic conversation summaries so the valuable pieces can be consumed more efficiently? I avoid podcast because there’s a lot of useless chit-chat which I just can’t be bothered with. I’d much rather read an article and the comment section.

Same here. I think there's too much noise to signal. But the average talker wouldn't want their conversations written down so I doubt this will happen.

Depends on their daily active user count. It could become a hybrid podcast platform etc... the interactivity is interesting. I'd expect them to get bought at some point. I mean twitter could build their own but it makes sense to buy the audience and early adopter enthusiasm.

Take as an example, even with the TikTok clones tiktok is still on top.

Only if Apple kills the podcast directory that powers that ecosystem.

They could probably survive indefinitely just by selling all that juicy personal data they pilfered when everyone granted the app full access to contacts.

Contact data is a fairly cheap commodity these days.

I've never heard Clubhouse mentioned in real life. I suppose that means it has the opportunity to grow a lot more.

Question is a little vague. What time period are you taking about? And buy survive do you mean not close?

I wanted to keep the question open. :-)

How is Clubhouse different from Discord? It’s just voice chat rooms right?

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