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Aaron O'Leary

The New Clubhouse - Clubhouse has reinvented itself as an audio messaging app.

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Clubhouse is back. The app that popularized social audio rooms is reinventing itself “to be more like a messaging app” with new voice-only group chats called “chats,” as detailed in a blog post from the company.

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Aaron O'Leary
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Admittedly, I totally forgot about Clubhouse, despite spending so many hours on it in 2020. The new update looks pretty cool, I'm curious if it can recapture the hype it had in the early days
Ryan Hoover
Product Hunt
Big shift from its live synchronous + follower model to async + friend model. The UX is very intuitive and clean. It delivers that feeling of running into a friend at an event. I shared some thoughts about this on Airchat, another async audio network. The two apps have similar functionality but very different graph models. Clubhouse is friend-focused where Airchat is interest-focused. They both serve different use cases, although long term the two will likely expand to compete with one another. Curious to hear other's take on this! What's your first impression of the new Clubhouse?
Ben South Lee
@rrhoover I gravitate towards the AC use case, but I'm a fan of the design paradigm Clubhouse introduced with the new update—it really does feel like a social gathering.
Kasey Baughan
@rrhoover I feel awkward initiating the conversation with my friends like this. Maybe if they can create a compelling prompt or find a way to gamify it, it could help overcome that. Maybe prompt a spicy question among your friends each day. The answer with the most likes wins the prize for that day. I don't know. I just don't think raw async voice messages will work. It needs some structure. But kudos to them for the willingness to pivot from sync voice chat when it was not working.
Rajiv Ayyangar
Product Hunt
@rrhoover early but I kinda love it! It's like texting but higher bandwidth. In a way it kinda reminds me of Honk https://www.producthunt.com/prod... in that it adds a dimension to text. (Honk: realtime, CH2: higher bandwidth).
Chris Messina
Raycast
From Odeo to Anchor and then OG Clubhouse, social audio continues to try to find its niche, and messaging might be the necessary wedge to drive engagement, but how will Clubhouse drive awareness and distribution in this market? Audio messaging is all but a commodity at this point. Will teens flock to this iteration of social audio?
Cristina Bunea
Command AI
@chrismessina do you think the intention is to go after teens though? the product itself to me feels like it's targeted at a slightly older audience
Chris Messina
Raycast
@cristinaibunea mm, yeah, I agree — but typically the secret of growth in social is to go after the younger demographic to keep a steady stream of new users... so if it's not teens, is Paul basically the target user persona? :)
Bhargav Patel
Aah! The new changes are interesting. Feels like a better Snapchat without videos! 😉 However, I loved Clubhouse for how it let us speak and host those unrestricted audio rooms. Been using its alternative application Breakout Audio on my phone. The good old days - posts, likes, communities, and more! I hope Clubhouse will make the app cool again with the new update!
Gary Fung
It’s dead. This makes it even more pointless. If it can’t compete with Twitter Spaces, how is it going to compete with WhatsApp, iMessage, Messenger which all have tap and hold voice messaging?
Minh Do
I think live/social audio was in a kind of stagnant place. And it was tough if we compare audio content, as an audience member, to podcasts and radio, Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces both struggle. So I think it’s a wise decision to experiment with a new format that is still audio-first. I think there’s still space for an audio-centric social media app and it seems to me Clubhouse is the player with the most dedication and wisdom for the medium.
Tinh Khac
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Wow hadn't thought about Clubhouse for ages - nice to see these changes
Arjun Das
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Nice. Remembering olden days!
Kayode Odeleye
Who Wants to Be a Unicorn (Unicorn Game)
Very interesting @aaronoleary but I am really sceptical they can recapture that magic. The world seems to have moved on. Time will tell...
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