Clubhouse is getting boring.<p>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.<p>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.<p>I'm not sure why I keep tuning in, but I don't suspect it will last. I know others feel the same way.<p>Unless Clubhouse makes some obvious improvements, mainly letting users filter out specific keywords and languages, I suspect it won't survive mass-adoption.
It's going to be tough considering the major players already cloned their service.<p>Twitter: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-spaces-idUSKBN2B32ZT" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-spaces-idUSKBN2B3...</a><p>Facebook/IG: <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/10/22276645/facebook-clubhouse-social-audio-app-develop" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/10/22276645/facebook-clubhou...</a><p>TikTok: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-china-clubhouse-copycats-idUKKBN2AW0KY" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-china-clubhouse-copycats-...</a>
I'm curious, do you think we'd be having this conversation <i>today</i> if they had released an Android app?<p>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.
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.<p>Take as an example, even with the TikTok clones tiktok is still on top.
They could probably survive indefinitely just by selling all that juicy personal data they pilfered when everyone granted the app full access to contacts.