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Re:Clubhouse Payments by mylons on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:45PM (#26705616)
Giants will clone and make a piece of shit. Apps like this survive by creating a network of people. They do that by creating demand to join the service. How do you do that? Make it invite only, and invite a ton of high profile people and get them using and talking about it, creating FOMO.

The only people who threaten this are Facebook and Twitter. Twitter _actually_ could clone it or buy a competitor. But, look at Twitter’s history of that. They literally KILLED a TikTok by buying it and shutting it down. They are in the process of killing a live video competitor to twitch and youtube called periscope.

Don’t be afraid of The Big Bois.

Re:Clubhouse Payments by echelon on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:52PM (#26705684)
> 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.

Re:Clubhouse Payments by iforgetti on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:51PM (#26706205)
Serious question, what did snap chat pivot to?
Re:Clubhouse Payments by antoniuschan99 on Monday April 05, 2021 @10:06PM (#26707202)
I would like to know too. Snapchat was ephermerial messages, stories, and filters? Tik tok is reels?
Re:Clubhouse Payments by shaklee3 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:01AM (#26708086)
They made glasses with a camera in them
Re:Clubhouse Payments by busymom0 on Monday April 05, 2021 @10:28PM (#26707343)
What did Snapchat pivot to? The only pivot I know they did was changing from disappearing messages to stories (not sure if the disappearing messages are still there?). But this wasn't exactly a pivot as far as I know because of FB copying the stories feature afterwards.
Re:Clubhouse Payments by mylons on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:07AM (#26712699)
my intuition on FB agrees with you but I can’t think of something like clubhouse that they didn’t buy or attempt to? any particular ships you’re referring to?

the ones you’re referring to were social photo/video plays which FB was perfectly setup to enter. FB doesn’t have an audio product as far as i know.