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An audio app that has consumed my life
- TechBro8615 6y agoClickbait title. The app is called “Clubhouse” and it’s a way of meeting new people. It’s invite only. Interesting post, though.
- Jemm 6y agoThere is already and iOS app called Clubhouse that is not the app this article wrote about.
- snypher 6y ago"Second, and more importantly, on Clubhouse you can meet great people." I didn't make it much further than this. The article didn't make it clear as to why its users were more "great".
- detaro 6y agoeasy enough for an invite-only app to fill itself with people that mostly think the other insiders are "great" too
- gav 6y agoThat is true, but it's also been my experience that better discussion happens in smaller forums. Whether that's usenet, reddit, or HN, when it's new, you feel like you're speaking to a small group of people vs. shouting in a large room. The quality of discussion on HN have dropped over time and a large part of that feels like that with more people trying to get their opinions heard, there's a lot of interesting opinions that are missed. Just look at the difference in upvotes between early posts and later mid-thread discussions, if you use that as a proxy for readership, there's a lot less people engaged because conversations get harder to follow and it's not easy to identify conversations that are new to you.
- nik_0_0 6y agoThe article drops some names and, I guess, expects you to have heard of them. I have heard of Namal, so that is an instant indicator to me what they mean in this case by 'great'. I'm not sure that I buy the 'this will scale when floodgates are open' follow up though. Although with the recent 'famous person goes live on Facebook and interacts with fans', it might work!
- SoulMan 6y agoWhat about discord voice chat ?
- StavrosK 6y agoWhat about two tin cans connected by a string?
- Y_Y 6y agoIf you don't have a second can you can just create a loopback interface to transmit locally.
- luckman212 6y agoI'd rather have 2 tin cans filled with rice and beans right now. Useful during lockdown.
- fortran77 6y agoAnd Virtual Airwaves https://virtualairwaves.com/ https://virtualairwaves.com/
- thanatropism 6y agoHow much of this is related to shelter-in-place?
- Causality1 6y ago>a community for casual drop-in audio conversations That there are people to whom this is appealing is interesting. For me personally this sounds like the tenth circle of hell.
- germinalphrase 6y agoIt feels very culture dependent to me, and almost certainly to become a dumpster fire once/if it develops mass appeal. Could it be cool? Yea - if people are respectful, curious and - somewhat - open/trusting. It probably won’t be/stay like that though. Edit: I grew up in a small rural community. People still remember the open party line telephone system. There was a cultural “etiquette” about using it because you had preexisting relationships with those people (however distant). A conversation app needs to have a limiting feature: geographic, contact list, etc.
- ChrisArchitect 6y agowas looking for someone mentioning the 'party line' thing. I've heard ppl like yourself mention remembering that also.
- empath75 6y agoIt seems more like a platform for call-in talk radio style podcasts.
- _curious_ 6y agoThis angle is interesting insofar as the business prop/value potential.
- joezydeco 6y agoWe've nearly completely detached ourselves from live-anything these days, with the exception of sports. It will be interesting to see if people want to migrate back to a real-time broadcast. If the host/content was compelling enough, it could work. But 99.99% of podcasts are not that.
- dirtydroog 6y agoThat was a very long advert.
- Y_Y 6y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- dangoor 6y agoIt was very long, but it wasn't all an advertisement. He spent a good deal of time talking about the potential prospects of the app, issues it may encounter (even with some suggestions), and similar apps that have come up in the past that didn't quite make the cut. That's a lot more in-depth than most product reviews go.
- _curious_ 6y agoLong form "in-depth" advertisement is a thing.
- cambalache 6y agoMay God bless your perceived(?) innocence.
- runawaybottle 6y agoI honestly think the wiki entry on the French Revolution(s) is shorter or similar length. But hey, if you’re that brilliant of a writer, have at it and write about a web app to your hearts content. Never edit anything.
- Jgrubb 6y ago"...that has consumed my life" - is that supposed to make me _want_ to use it?
- _curious_ 6y agoRight?! But I'm personally intrigued by apps that I will never use, let alone "consume my life" because I believe it's important to stay abreast of the pop culture consumer tech trends... "You don’t have to schedule a conversation or reach out to anyone and ask if they want to chat, you just open the app and start talking." Sounds like another app appealing to the lowest common denominator: 'hey everyone, look at/listen to me!'
- code_duck 6y agoI thought this was going to be a post written from the perspective of the developer of a music app, like audio processing or something. I’m a lot more interested in having an app I develop consume my life!
- Jgrubb 6y agoI was secretly hoping for it to be GarageBand, which I only discovered a few weeks ago after apparently having it on my phone for several years now. It's a fantastic little app that does things I couldn't have dreamt of ten years ago. I've been writing pieces of songs, which is something (at 41) I've never done before. But no, this is basically chat roulette 2020.
- code_duck 6y agoGarageband for iOS is absolutely amazing. It is simply the best app there ever was, besides browsers and the basics. As a guitar player since a kid I LOVE touch guitar, bass, the the drums, everything and especially the fact that it's not just an instrument but a song studio. I couldn't say enough good things about GarageBand for iOS. It's amazing. I have hundreds of diverse song snippets since 2010. ChatRoulette! Ha. You're so right.
- tclancy 6y agoCool. I had an idea like this a while back (as a dev I know exactly what ideas are worth) where I would finally learn Elixir and LiveView by building something similar but more like a CB network where you could only connect with people within a certain distance of you. The level of effort and the possibility for trolling left it on the shelf though.
- lukevp 6y agoThe app seems compelling but not something I’d likely use much. I’ve noticed this lowkey buzz for Roam building. While I respect their approach and agree with some core concepts, I feel like the implementation is not ideal for the types of notes I, and many others, take. If anyone’s interested in a new note app we are building, PM me for access to the alpha. We are launching the beta in May but would appreciate feedback in the meantime!
- m3kw9 6y agoClubhouse marketing campaign
- BubRoss 6y agoInside the clickbait marketing campaign that has consumed my job.
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- michael_fine 6y agoI hate to ask, but does anyone have a clubhouse invite?
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- chrisjarvis 6y agoThis sounds kinda fun! One of the most unique apps I ever used had a similar concept. It was called "Wakie: The Social Alarm Clock" and the concept was simple you would set a time you wanted to be woken up and at that time you would receive a phone call from a random other user of the app (likely from another country due to time zones!) and you could also volunteer to wake people. The call would be ended after 60 seconds. These were probably my first experiences talking to someone from another country. The app still exists but has pivoted to something else.
- hobo_mark 6y agoWow, that sounds so diabolically creepy I have no idea who would ever sign up to be called on the phone, by strangers, while sleeping.
- bityard 6y agoThose with a sense of adventure, I presume
- randycupertino 6y agoHaving worked in a medical call center and the amount of men who would masturbate to our female call reps while on calls about health insurance would make this app seem like ripe for abuse for sex predators!
- rl3 6y agohttps://clubhouse.io/ https://clubhouse.io/ If I were them I'd be slightly pissed off.
- firloop 6y agoWhy? The products aren't similar.
- rl3 6y agoEmphasis on slightly, however they're both startups with software products with the same name, even if those products do different things. Whenever I come up with a new product and choose a name, I try to conduct due diligence first to see if there's any other software companies with the same name. It seems like they didn't do that, or if they did they didn't care. On the other hand, maybe the newer Clubhouse drives more traffic to the established one, who knows.
- acjohnson55 6y agoI briefly worked on HuffPost Live, which was basically like this, but with a single stream of content. There were hosts and programming, but at any time, guests could audition to join a conversation. The dynamism of having guests of all levels of expertise on a topic was really compelling. I still feel like the project was ahead of its time. It also didn't have the elitism aspect for gaining access. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HuffPost_Live https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HuffPost_Live
- jbverschoor 6y agoNow I’m curious for an invite
- doh 6y agoI'm on clubhouse for a while. I see some people calling this article a marketing campaign. I must admit that I spend a lot of time on Clubhouse. Since I joined my usage of Twitter and other networks dropped significantly [0]. It's hard to explain what makes Clubhouse so unique and addictive, but it reminds me the early days of Twitter when conversations were more honest and more serendipitous [1]. I'm curious to see how the team will handle the growth. Being closed with a small tight group of people that are loosely connected in the real world makes it quite special. [0] https://twitter.com/synopsi/status/1253916397811273728?s=20 https://twitter.com/synopsi/status/1253916397811273728?s=20 [1] https://twitter.com/synopsi/status/1252431014183354369?s=20 https://twitter.com/synopsi/status/1252431014183354369?s=20
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- ajot 6y ago> If this was a podcast, I would think “hey that’s interesting, maybe I’ll listen later.” I would probably read the episode title and show notes, and I would consider whether the topics were interesting to me, and maybe I’d listen, or maybe I would save it for later. > But with Clubhouse, the conversation is live, and there are no recordings. And when I join they might notice me. So when I got that push notification, I knew: it’s now or never. I had no clue what they were talking about. I was either in or out. So, apart from the novelty and true potential use-cases, this works out of FOMO? I do have enough FOMO right now with RSS, Youtube, Reddit and Hacker News, I don't really find this appealing.
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- olivierduval 6y ago"All of a sudden, I’m explaining my dinky blog post to a guy with almost a million twitter followers!" OK, so it's the usual app: please let me be famous for 5 minutes because one of my God is talking to me. Facebook did it long before...
- olivierduval 6y ago"I think it’ll feel similar to Twitter, in a lot of ways. Sometimes a famous person retweets you or replies to you. More often, a “famous in your world” person does." Enough... I'm definetly ouf of this
- s1mon 6y agoI didn’t have the patience to read all the way through this article. Something about the writing really drove me crazy. I just want a basic explanation of what this is. This TechCrunch article gets to the point much more quickly. https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/18/clubhouse-app-chat-rooms/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/18/clubhouse-app-chat-rooms/
- imagin8or 6y agoIt's a very basic version of IRC but for audio, and only for invitees for now. And it's great for all the reasons IRC is great, but everyone thinks it's all a totally new concept so they're just waiting for it to get its unicorn horn and start pissing cash money.
- samsquire 6y agoYou're not the only one who the writing drove crazy!
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- optimaton 6y agoReally curious to know. Is it because of the conversational tone or the click-baity suspense?
- s1mon 6y agoThe article is almost half done before it begins to explain the basic mechanics of the service, and I still didn't really get it until I read elsewhere. If it was easy for anyone to sign up and/or it had been around for a while, that might be OK, but given that it's not, a sentence or two to tell the reader WTF you're writing about would be helpful. TechCrunch explains it succinctly in the second paragraph: "The most buzzy of these startups is Clubhouse, an audio-based social network where people can spontaneously jump into voice chat rooms together. You see the unlabeled rooms of all the people you follow, and you can join to talk or just listen along, milling around to find what interests you."
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- ChrisArchitect 6y agoif it's a badly written article that many aren't finding informative, stop upvoting it! Here's the other techcrunch article ppl mentioned, posted a week ago and not garnering much interest. heh https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22913692 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22913692