Clubhouse Hype and Decline

Clubhouse too. Remember Clubhouse?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25685454

Is this, like, Clubhouse for HN?

Clubhouse is going down the exact same route that Quora did. Initially, they seeded the platform with a sense of exclusivity and big name users, but it is rapidly suffering the effect of what happens to any platform as it goes broad and average quality of user goes down.

Sounds like Clubhouse before it went mainstream and the quality plummeted.

Not a fan of the routine anecdotal comments on Hacker News every time something blows up. We saw the same with Snapchat. Clubhouse is obviously popular and the article makes a good case why that is. Isn't that more interesting to discuss than "tried it, don't understand the hype"?

yeah its not, its just still invite only lolI got on last summer and it worked better in the smaller "club house" styleits just a fireside chat app, or "live podcasting" or whateversome utility for somebut even back last summer, people had these cringy "I'm a millionaire like everyone else" bio, that didn't make any sense then and doesn't make any sense now

Lots of social networks failed before FB took off, a similar network failing doesn't mean it would fail. The key is Clubhouse's selling feature and hype came from the fact that was where the cool kids were, and the audio setup made it harder for conversations to leak to the riff raff. Once both those things were untrue, it lost its hype/sheen.

It’s not dead. It was popular because of it’s novelty, and now it’s just another form of communication or content consumption. Unfortunately for Clubhouse, that means that as soon as big social networks copy you, you need to innovate or die. Network effects of bigger social media are too powerful for Clubhouse, so it’s a bit of an unfair fight.

I'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 sm

Love the focus on casual specifically, I feel apps like Clubhouse really emphasize the "on stage" vs. "off stage" dynamic which can lead to some really frustrating status seeking behavior (e.g. chiming in to show off vs. out of genuine interest or care). Excited to see where this goes!