What I Learned at Clubhouse

Re:What I Learned at Clubhouse by rvz on Monday July 25, 2022 @03:46PM (#32229956)

Seems like the Clubhouse boosting party is beyond over. No justification into why VCs think that it is worth $4B. [0] I don't see a path for survival for this hype product and it turns out that nothing of value was lost as soon as its ideas were easily copied to death.

Nothing new was brought to the table that could not be copied. This is why the Clubhouse had nothing interesting inside it and my mind remains unchanged on this since [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883362

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Re:What I Learned at Clubhouse by JumpCrisscross on Monday July 25, 2022 @04:49PM (#32230715)

> why VCs think that it is worth $4B

One VC: Andreessen Horowitz. Who are now knee-deep in the crypto rug-pull scam.

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Re:What I Learned at Clubhouse by __derek__ on Monday July 25, 2022 @05:02PM (#32230868)

Maybe it's complementary to their portfolio: how many people have bought tokens after hearing about the projects on Clubhouse (or its clones)?

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Re:What I Learned at Clubhouse by prohobo on Monday July 25, 2022 @04:11PM (#32230274)

IMO, Clubhouse was a good idea for the zeitgeist (lockdowns) and had a lot of novelty value, but ultimately wasn't what people really wanted. What they really wanted was Twitter Spaces because that's the actual public town square and that's where "knowledgeable" speakers can have opportunistic discussions, pop in and have their say then leave.

Clubhouse should have tried to sell itself to Twitter as soon as possible, though I'm not sure it could have worked out regardless. It's just too easy to copy the idea, and they're unlucky because of that.

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Re:What I Learned at Clubhouse by skinnymuch on Monday July 25, 2022 @06:40PM (#32231910)

The difference is Twitter Spaces are lead by bigger influencers? What’s the point of being live for that? Or how is that much different than a podcast that has Q&A?

If something is lead by the main person/people, then it won’t be a natural sort of discussion right?

I don’t know how to get to Twitter Spaces, but did use Clubhouse a bit.

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Re:What I Learned at Clubhouse by sangnoir on Monday July 25, 2022 @11:55PM (#32234077)

> If something is lead by the main person/people, then it won’t be a natural sort of discussion right?

That form may be perfect for the subject - the genius of Twitter Spaces is its flexibility: it can be indistinguishable from a podcast (with 1 person speaking), or a town hall where anyone/everyone can get to speak, and anything in between. I've been in some amazingly great/funny/informative Spaces - and it hinged on the quality of moderation.

FWIW, "a podcast with a Q&A" is valuable: it can draw out amazing insights from listeners in realtime - unlike regular podcasts that get discussed on Twitter after the fact, and without canonical answers.

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Re:What I Learned at Clubhouse by skinnymuch on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @08:33AM (#32237416)

Cool. I must not be a big enough Twitter user for them to reveal Spaces to me. Or I'm aloof and haven't noticed it. I'll look out for it now though.

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Re:What I Learned at Clubhouse by dr_dshiv on Monday July 25, 2022 @06:36PM (#32231863)

Except you can’t copy community. But you can kill it or cultivate it. The value of the best online communities won’t be the software but the people. Like HN.

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