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Clubhouse is a case study on missed opportunities. What were their biggest mistakes? Violating GDPR and common-sense privacy norms by demanding access to user
by artfulhippo 5y ago
Clubhouse is a case study on missed opportunities.
What were their biggest mistakes?
Violating GDPR and common-sense privacy norms by demanding access to users’ contact list?
Still not having a content discovery system?
Spamming users with notifications to the point that they disabled them?
Waiting a year to make an Android version?
Integrating with Twitter and Instagram instead of building a direct messaging system?
Building creepy features (you can see how recently your mutual followers have been online) before finding real product-market fit?
Making the founders and a16z partners the most popular users by encouraging new users to follow them by default?
Founders talking on the app for many hours every day, and getting VIP treatment in each room they were in?
Not having a way to listen to convos anonymously (especially a problem for public figures who get asked to comment whenever they join a room) ?
Not having recordings, effectively signaling that Clubhouse conversations are disposable?
Dismissing complaints from early users about poor moderation and harassment on the app?
Trying to “monetize” too early (they aren’t monetized, but they do let users tip each other; an odd feature to prioritize over content discovery or DMs) ?
Raising too much money?
Turning down Twitter’s $4B acquisition offer?
Did I miss anything?
- busymom0 5y ago> Turning down Twitter’s $4B acquisition offer? ouch.
- Apocryphon 5y agoSomehow I don't think they're going to pull a Snapchat and find their way out.
- dannyw 5y agohahahahaha .