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I'm still not convinced that clubhouse is anything more than real time podcasts saturated with linkedin influencers

by ausbah 6y ago

arkitaip 6y ago
Far more useless apps have reached far higher heights. In the end, growthies cater primarily to future investors and that means growth, spectacle, FOMO and dark patterns are prioritized over usefulness and innovation.
- solosoyokaze 6y ago
  Can you give an example of something more useless than Clubhouse? I can't really think of anything less useful than listening to a bunch of people self-promote in real-time audio.
te_chris 6y ago
TBH Linkedin is probably the best fit fot it. It's the perfect mix of neediness, narcissism and irrelevence
- nipponese 6y ago
  This could be classified as poetry.
site-packages1 6y ago
It definitely seems to be. I just opened the app right now and the room titles I see are: "Breakfast w/ Champions the Millionaire's Breakfast Club" "Money vs Passion: Big Entrepreneurs Open Up" "Welcome to Clubhouse! Get +1000 followers, likes, and comments" "NFTs for Dummies" "SuperDuper Coin takes over CRYPTO!! Less than $0.01!" "Big Instagram Room: Marketing 101" "Rising Affirmations" "NFTs tips 2 Month Anniversary get your POAP" "Marketing and Selling NFTs" "BOSS MOMS: Branding Like a Boss" "DAILY WORKSHOP: Reclaim your passion" That's just a snippet, surprised to not see more around NFTs, and you can imagine there's rocket and star emojis strewn throughout all those titles. I basically stopped logging into clubhouse. There are some good conversations here and there in my areas of interest (none of the above) but even in those people are just preening to get "on stage" and when they talk say nothing of substance "let's take a step back here and think about X" or "where do we draw the line?" seem to be the go-to phrases of someone who has nothing tangible to say about the topic. I would welcome a Clubhouse type startup with actually vetted people that eschewed topics/influencers or which didn't attempt to expand. Like, cap Clubhouse new members 6 months ago and that would have been an amazing app with lots of interesting and successful people talking about interesting topics without all the noise.
SuboptimalEng 6y ago
A-greed
vmception 6y ago
It wasn’t 6 months ago, but it is now.

I'm still not convinced that clubhouse is anything more than real time podcasts saturated with linkedin influencers

by ausbah 6y ago

I'm still not convinced that clubhouse is anything more than real time podcasts saturated with linkedin influencers

Far more useless apps have reached far higher heights. In the end, growthies cater primarily to future investors and that means growth, spectacle, FOMO and dark patterns are prioritized over usefulness and innovation.

solosoyokaze 6y ago
Can you give an example of something more useless than Clubhouse? I can't really think of anything less useful than listening to a bunch of people self-promote in real-time audio.

te_chris 6y ago

TBH Linkedin is probably the best fit fot it. It's the perfect mix of neediness, narcissism and irrelevence

nipponese 6y ago
This could be classified as poetry.

site-packages1 6y ago

It definitely seems to be. I just opened the app right now and the room titles I see are: "Breakfast w/ Champions the Millionaire's Breakfast Club" "Money vs Passion: Big Entrepreneurs Open Up" "Welcome to Clubhouse! Get +1000 followers, likes, and comments" "NFTs for Dummies" "SuperDuper Coin takes over CRYPTO!! Less than $0.01!" "Big Instagram Room: Marketing 101" "Rising Affirmations" "NFTs tips 2 Month Anniversary get your POAP" "Marketing and Selling NFTs" "BOSS MOMS: Branding Like a Boss" "DAILY WORKSHOP: Reclaim your passion" That's just a snippet, surprised to not see more around NFTs, and you can imagine there's rocket and star emojis strewn throughout all those titles. I basically stopped logging into clubhouse. There are some good conversations here and there in my areas of interest (none of the above) but even in those people are just preening to get "on stage" and when they talk say nothing of substance "let's take a step back here and think about X" or "where do we draw the line?" seem to be the go-to phrases of someone who has nothing tangible to say about the topic. I would welcome a Clubhouse type startup with actually vetted people that eschewed topics/influencers or which didn't attempt to expand. Like, cap Clubhouse new members 6 months ago and that would have been an amazing app with lots of interesting and successful people talking about interesting topics without all the noise.

SuboptimalEng 6y ago

A-greed

vmception 6y ago

It wasn’t 6 months ago, but it is now.