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The New Clubhouse

Clubhouse has reinvented itself as an audio messaging app.

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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Android•iOS•Social Media

Launch Team

Aaron O'Leary

Product Hunt

Hunter

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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

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1yr ago

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?

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1yr ago

Ben South Lee

Postmates

@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.

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1yr ago

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.

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1yr ago

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).

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1yr ago

Chris Messina

Raycast

Top Hunter

Launching soon!

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?

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1yr ago

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

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1yr ago

Chris Messina

Raycast

Top Hunter

Launching soon!

@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? :)

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1yr ago

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