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Clubhouse was lightning in a bottle. It also proves that some things just can't scale, no matter how much money and star-power you can throw at it.

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xtracto 5y ago
What's old is new... I remember around 2006 Skype had a feature that allowed you to "host" talks. The community made some interesting channels, and I used to participate in some of them. Eventually the feature was dropped, and I haven't found a place that could substitute that. But yeah, that's a feature, not a product.
- ALittleLight 5y ago
  This is a good thing to consider. I'm setting a reminder for myself in ten years to create a clubhouse clone. If one exists then I'll just snooze another decade.
jfengel 5y ago
Quora was an interesting example of that. They seeded it with some big names, especially from venture capital and Silicon Valley culture. That attracted a lot of eyeballs quickly, and for a while, some very good content (mostly not from the big names but from its diverse user base, and some good writers achieved notoriety). That wasn't very lucrative, and they've spent the last few years spending that goodwill to attract lower-quality content but more page views. Eventually that will cause its hard-earned SEO to drop off, but today they seem to feel its the best way to monetize what they developed from that early money and star-power.
- SilverRed 5y ago
  Q&A does scale. As much as people shit talk StackExchange, they have done an excellent job keeping the platform high quality and it's leaps and bounds ahead of any other Q&A platform.
Graffur 5y ago
did clubhouse have any star power?
- ryanSrich 5y ago
  Depending on how you define star power, it had Musk, Rogan, among 100s of other well known celebrities in the early days. Not sure if any of those stuck around, but they certainly attracted the right people early on.
  - Graffur 5y ago
    Ah, I thought you mean star-developer/employees. Yes they had some big names, although I heard Joe Rogan went on it once and said he wouldn't go back on it.

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xtracto 5y ago

What's old is new... I remember around 2006 Skype had a feature that allowed you to "host" talks. The community made some interesting channels, and I used to participate in some of them. Eventually the feature was dropped, and I haven't found a place that could substitute that. But yeah, that's a feature, not a product.

ALittleLight 5y ago
This is a good thing to consider. I'm setting a reminder for myself in ten years to create a clubhouse clone. If one exists then I'll just snooze another decade.

jfengel 5y ago

Quora was an interesting example of that. They seeded it with some big names, especially from venture capital and Silicon Valley culture. That attracted a lot of eyeballs quickly, and for a while, some very good content (mostly not from the big names but from its diverse user base, and some good writers achieved notoriety). That wasn't very lucrative, and they've spent the last few years spending that goodwill to attract lower-quality content but more page views. Eventually that will cause its hard-earned SEO to drop off, but today they seem to feel its the best way to monetize what they developed from that early money and star-power.

SilverRed 5y ago
Q&A does scale. As much as people shit talk StackExchange, they have done an excellent job keeping the platform high quality and it's leaps and bounds ahead of any other Q&A platform.

Graffur 5y ago

did clubhouse have any star power?

ryanSrich 5y ago
Depending on how you define star power, it had Musk, Rogan, among 100s of other well known celebrities in the early days. Not sure if any of those stuck around, but they certainly attracted the right people early on.
- Graffur 5y ago
  Ah, I thought you mean star-developer/employees. Yes they had some big names, although I heard Joe Rogan went on it once and said he wouldn't go back on it.