wouldn't suppose you could tell me what it's for? I see someone saying that Twitter recreated it.. but that doesn't mean anything to me.. their website is so arrogant as to basically only offer a link to download the app.. because I should just.. "know" what they do?
It's essentially a conference call app. You create a room or space or whatever and you can participate or listen in on audio. Some have called it live podcasting. But it's a conference call in the most basic sense. Twitter copied it with Spaces, which feels like a more natural fit. The reason Clubhouse is so popular, or was so popular is that a16z funded it at the peak of zero interest rates. Clubhouse is a ZIP and will likely either get acquired or go out of business as it seems many have stopped using it.
What’s a zip? (Aside from being a pretty hard thing to search for…)
zip, zilch, zero, nada, null, ngmi
Zero Interest rate Phenomena
Clubhouse was a product that had the most perfect launch timing in the past decade: a social gathering app right as the COVID pandemic started.
That was it.
Seems like it was really popular for about 3 months. And then it was just annoying.
It was very briefly billed to be the FB killer.
Which was always an amazing take, since Facebook works by giving you a few minutes to catch up on friends/groups while you're sitting on the toilet or waiting for a bus. It doesn't require you to be in a quiet place and more or less concentrating for an hour in order to get anything out of it.
Yup. I expected this to be a “we’re shutting down, thanks for all the fish” type message. And it sounds like if not for the astronomical raises they did in the good times that’s what it would be. They’ve been hemorrhaging users since Dec 2020.
I was really expecting this to be an announcement that they were closing down.
We don't know the upper bound on how many were laid off, just that it was < 50%.