Re:Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter
by josefrichter on Monday January 10, 2022 @03:57AM
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I don’t think Clubhouse’s fall has anything to do with the tech.
Re:Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter
by rvz on Monday January 10, 2022 @06:50AM
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It is one of the many reasons why the hype died. [0] Ultimately they could not move quick enough against the competition.
The expectation with apps these days is to release on both platforms from day 1 and Clubhouse was still too busy writing their Android app a year after releasing their iOS app, meaning they were too slow to compete against everyone else.
As soon as that was finished with the invite system removed, everyone already left for Twitter Spaces or Discord Stages.
Re:Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter
by josefrichter on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @09:22AM
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Honestly, I think the novelty just wore off. I doubt that Clubhouse users moved to other platforms, I think they just mostly stopped using the chatrooms.
After some exploration phase, it seems the main use case settled to just semi-interactive podcasting. Which is something that Twitter did take over. But my guess is this is just some 5% of the initial traffic and even Twitter could live without that probably.
So Clubhouse 'succeeded' on native this then before every single competitor copied them to the point where everyone has abandoned it? At what cost?
It didn't stop Discord from copying them (which that is in React Native). It also seems that Discord is the prime example that proved how slow Clubhouse was to catch up in the first place without an Android app available at the time for their entire product.
As soon as the Clubhouse Android app released, it was already too late.