I stopped using it 5-6 months back as most rooms I find were pretty boring or just people arguing about random stuff.
If you still use it, what are some interesting rooms you follow?
In my experience Clubhouse turned into a corpse merely a few weeks after its hype, after that it was just people parading this corpse around because what they saw in clubhouse was based on experiences a very small number of (other) people made on there. Those experiences were never inherent to clubhouse, but solely based on the limited amount of users, and a bit of curiosity among internet celebrities. Something that was never going to scale or keep up in any way.<p>There are only so many incredible Harvard professors you can randomly meet at night to listen in on them having the most incredible discussion about life and the future.<p>The moment I took a look (which was pretty early) it was already nothing but scams and spam. And celebrities of varying popularity selling stuff to their audiences.<p>The google stats for "clubhouse" paint a picture: <a href="https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=clubhouse" rel="nofollow">https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=clubhouse</a>
I've been using it regularly for 7 months, still love it.<p>I have my internet stranger group of friends who are always around for chat. But also love listening to music rooms when I want to discover new stuff.<p>Essentially I use it for radio as a socially deprived remote worker.<p>I also created a bot that can talk and speak in rooms that leverages GPT-3 for a bit of fun -> <a href="https://lordajax.com/post/Omega-Clubhouse-GPT-3-bot/" rel="nofollow">https://lordajax.com/post/Omega-Clubhouse-GPT-3-bot/</a><p>There are Figma and live Javascript coding rooms, where everyone gets on and has open access to the same playgrounds. Get's chaotic but generally everyone self organizes.<p>Nothing really compares to Agora/Clubhouse audio quality.<p>Footnote: I am a "socialite" and love to talk to new people often.<p>==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ====<p>Made a Clubhouse room -> <a href="https://www.clubhouse.com/room/MwrYA8YQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.clubhouse.com/room/MwrYA8YQ</a><p>Edit: Sitting in an empty room for 40 minutes now... proves the thread I suppose aha - will wait patiently<p>Edit 2: Got 1 person so far<p>Name a vegetable when you come up so I can kick non HN people.<p>==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ====
Never even bothered with it, they seemed to initially sound as if the missing features were some sort of advanced tech that was going to take a lot of time to build.<p>When in fact they just weren't able to use Agora's SDK for Android properly. The weirdest thing is that they made it mobile app exclusive, for something which really does not need to be phone exclusive to begin with.
I had a week of using it regularly in the evening, including a few german rap battle evenings, which were genuinely amazing and felt really special. There was a special interest group of watch enthusiasts which I found really charming, and also some Pidgin-English rooms I found linguistically entertaining for a while. But I stopped eventually (the amount of crypto/get-rich-quick stuff that other mention was bad, but I'm not sure that wasn't the reason I left as such - there just wasn't enough non-get-rich-related stuff in the end), and haven't been back in six months.<p>I hosted a room once, which I was really nervous about - I never really felt like I could participate in most of the rooms I was listening in on - there weren't many ins, and joining a voice-call is much harder than posting a message. I wonder if that barrier wasn't a big factor.
I was excited to try it relatively early on in its popularness spike. I spent I think 3 evenings walking around listening to multiple channels or whatever they're called. Nearly every one seemed to be a snakeoil sales pitch and I just got sickened by it. Deleted it after a week and never looked back.
Yes, the Industrie40 club still has very interesting content.<p>Its not the big rooms. Its the small rooms. There are not constantly available. You just need to find (active) clubs that are right for you and need to follow their content.<p>With the (not so) new feature of reply, some of those content is available like a podcast. But, of course that is missing the point of participation.
I got my invite (when it was invite only), which was exciting as it felt exclusive. But soon I found that the rooms were mostly around Crypto, Get rich soon schemes. Only a few were truly interesting to me. And the notifications were nagging too. So I turned off the notifications. Soon, I found that I no longer needed the app. Finally uninstalled it.
I think it was a pretty good idea. Not sure where it went awry.
I enjoyed it early on (about a year ago) as it was novel and had this sort of "cosiness" to a lot of the chats. I stopped using it as much when my dad had a stroke in late January and I just wasn't in the mood.. but I've since returned a bit and it still isn't clicking for me anymore. A few ideas as to why:<p>1. A core group of speakers got addicted to it, tended to dominate many of the rooms, and appeared to know each other. So it got a bit samey and boring with them moderating everything.<p>2. A quantity vs quality dynamic seemed to appear in order to grow following counts and club sizes, which led to non stop lowest common denominator chats. I just went on now and this is clearly still a problem.. "Big Income Opportunities for You in 2022", "Real Relationship Talk", "Networking eLounge".. these sound like email spam subject lines. For me, these topics suck for the same reason on Clubhouse that they would if they were Ask HN topics..<p>There's probably more to it than that, and I might be being unfair, but those are just my initial gut answers.
It would be cool if there was something like "HN in Audio" on ClubHouse.<p>That was what I was hoping when I first tried it.<p>Or something like "Indie Hackers talking to each other".<p>Or "Digital Nomad audio meetups".<p>But I never found interesting channels.<p>Any suggestions?
I too stopped using it. Too much noise, very little signal. There were some interesting parts. Like listen for an hour to get an interesting perspective, story , viewpoint of 5 mins.<p>It really depends on who was in the room, and the ability of the people on stage to stimulate interesting conversation.
Never managed to get an invite. Seems hard to scale your app and gain traction when interested people can’t even give it a go. I guess the elitism was part of the marketing.
I left Twitter because I got bored of the conversation, too much noise and irrelevant chatter. When I joined clubhouse I was disappointed to see the same people and chatter, and a lot of crypto everywhere.<p>It also felt somewhat formal, I felt uncomfortable seeing myself as a listener in a square. It was ambiguous whether I was a passive listener or I had the possibility to be active. I have a thick accent so I prefer to communicate by chat.
Thank you for reminding me of it. This caused me to delete my account there. I am no fan of apps that rely on synchronous experiences, and I also see much higher value in podcasts and their curation (having show notes to know in advance what is covered, being able to skip over uninteresting parts and the content is of higher quality because less spontaneous.
Eternal September comes for all exclusive services that try to grow wide.<p>I thought Clubhouse was interesting, just because of how it speed-ran the Quora descent from high-quality, VIP-seeded experience, to absolute Yahoo Answers depravity once it opened up and the unwashed masses poured in.
As far as I could tell the hype was in large part driven by celebrity VCs like Naval and Balaji constantly hyping it as the next stage of social networking and that can only drive people to use it for so long. Numbers have been falling all year since then.
For me most of the appeal of social media is that it's async, so Clubhouse never really interested me. But if I did want to have that experience there are any number of relevant-to-my-interests Discords with voice chat
I still don't get the whole idea behind Clubhouse - I've read it's modelled on some 80s-90s <i>phone parties</i> or something like this? All I know it's some kind of invite-exclusive voice chat
Lol, no. I was in it from March or April of 2020 and I don't know if I've used it at all in 2021. I've used Twitter Spaces a few times, but Clubhouse is dead.
(Not related)<p>At the time Clubhouse was being hyped in Twitter, a startup hired me as a growth engineer (read, social media manager). I went through tons of twitter threads of viral growth case studies. Everyone was so preachy about Clubhouse and Hey.com. They sold the idea that those were the greatest things ever to hit the startup space. The "invite only business with viral fame on twitter" felt like the only way to a sell startup in the 2020-21 era.<p>Writing this comment now, I feel nothing but hate and bitterness for Twitter's hypocrisy in the dev/hacker circle there. Discovering a good idea or content worth value from twitter is like finding a needle in a bunch of needles.
sometimes, mostly for a16z events and local tech events (Vietnam & Southeast Asia). I don't understand and don't follow the hate (overhyped, overfunding, etc.) but I think the app is very smooth and works pretty well for me.