Clubhouse Is Now Out of Beta and Open To Everyone (techcrunch.com) 31
Clubhouse announced Wednesday that it would end its waitlist and invite system, opening up to everyone. TechCrunch reports: Clubhouse is also introducing a real logo that will look familiar -- it's basically a slightly altered version of the waving emoji the company already used. Clubhouse will still hold onto its app portraits, introducing a new featured icon from the Atlanta music scene to ring in the changes. "The invite system has been an important part of our early history," Clubhouse founders Paul Davison and Rohan Seth wrote in a blog announcement. They note that adding users in waves and integrating new users into the app's community through Town Halls and orientation sessions helped Clubhouse grow at a healthy rate without breaking, "but we've always wanted Clubhouse to be open."
According to new data SensorTower provided to TechCrunch, Clubhouse hit its high point in February at 9.6 million global downloads, up from 2.4 million the month prior. After that, things settled down a bit before perking back up in May when TikTok went live on Android through the Google Play Store. Since May, new Android users have accounted for the lion's share of the app's downloads. In June, Clubhouse was installed 7.7 million times across both iOS and Android -- an impressive number that's definitely in conflict with the perception that the app might not have staying power.
Clubhouse's success is a double-edged sword. The app's meteoric rise came as a surprise to the team, as meteoric rises often do. The social app is still a wild success by normal metrics in a landscape completely dominated by a handful of large, entrenched platforms, but it can be tricky to maintain healthy momentum after such high highs. Opening up the app to everybody should certainly help.
According to new data SensorTower provided to TechCrunch, Clubhouse hit its high point in February at 9.6 million global downloads, up from 2.4 million the month prior. After that, things settled down a bit before perking back up in May when TikTok went live on Android through the Google Play Store. Since May, new Android users have accounted for the lion's share of the app's downloads. In June, Clubhouse was installed 7.7 million times across both iOS and Android -- an impressive number that's definitely in conflict with the perception that the app might not have staying power.
Clubhouse's success is a double-edged sword. The app's meteoric rise came as a surprise to the team, as meteoric rises often do. The social app is still a wild success by normal metrics in a landscape completely dominated by a handful of large, entrenched platforms, but it can be tricky to maintain healthy momentum after such high highs. Opening up the app to everybody should certainly help.
But too late (Score:5, Interesting)
A few months ago, at the peak of the hype, I was curious to check it out. Could not - "invitation only". Now they sent me a message saying "come on in" but, alas, I've read enough about it to know it's a waste of time. So - no, thanks.
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It's genuinely a bit weird to me. The entire point behind clubhouse's success as far as I could see was exclusivity. First it was iphone-only invitation only, then it was mobile device only, invitation only.
What is the status drawing people in now? General access means that it's now exposed to pretty much everyone who wants to troll each room, while it's no longer "high status people and those they chose to invite only" which seemed to be the main draw behind it. All while if you want a recording of what ha
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To quote Lao Tzu, "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."
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What is the niche that Clubhouse fills that isn't already taken on the market?
As far as I could see, it was exclusivity that was pretty much the only niche. It was very visible in Germany for example, which is an extremely entrenched class based society. There the initial apple exclusivity coupled with invite-only system made it into an app that was widely used by political elite to conduct discussions for a while, specifically because it allowed them to exclude pretty much everyone they didn't want to inte
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Remember when Google Wave was invite only?
What's Google Wave, you ask?
Exactly.
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My first gmail was invite only.
But surely it could send emails to and from outside gmail?
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So...you're saying that things that are hyped up are a waste of time? Who knew?!
This is Buckwheat... (Score:2)
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My guess is that it's automatic submission editting software.
It's very buggy.
Clubhouse? (Score:2)
WTF is Clubhouse, and why should I care?
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No girls!
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It's like Google Wave. Something people wanted when it was invite-only.
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It does not matter WTF it is. And you should not care. Feel fre to move on to more important matters.
But if you would like to know a bit more about the trolls' paradise that Clubhouse will become, feel free to peruse this Wired article from a few months back [wired.com]. You'll probably get more satisfaction from reading it than you ever would from Clubhouse itself.
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It's not an ad, it's a slashvertisement.
Why would I want to be a part of a club (Score:3)
that would have me as a member?
What is Clubhouse? (Score:2)
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For those of that don't know what the fuck Clubhouse is, it would've been nice to say in TFS. I may or may not be interested in it, but I guess I'll never know unless it gets a story/advertisement somewhere that catches my eye sometime in the future and tells me WTF it is.
I read the article and I still don't know what it is.
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Exactly. Isn't it so absolutely fabulous? The mystery is part of the allure! Now you can be a part of the exclusive club of people (including the founders) who are a part of Clubhous
Re: What is Clubhouse? (Score:2)
Thats nothing, I used it for a week and I still don't know what it is for !
Random people are talking in 100s of rooms and 1000s of others are listening
Since audio is pretty much a sequential access thing, dropping into a few rooms somewhere midway between what some guy is saying doesn't really have much charm.
Maybe the pr0n type rooms could still be mildly interesting. Or if you are stalking some VC or something.
Or if you are interested in disseminating your propoganda and talking non stop with the
Clubhouse is an audio forum, sort of (Score:3)
Instead of typing, one has conversations, but the platform is dominated by celebrities and established institutions that lead discussions. No doubt, every hate group will soon have Clubhouse rooms to radicalize disciples.
It's just another tool to extract data from people. It's a total waste of time. I really don't know who has time for this nonsense. I joined when it was invitaiton only, and I have yet to spend more than 10 seconds in a room, and that was months ago.
Haven't seen any Clubhouse headlines in a while (Score:2)
This summary is lazy and here is why (Score:4, Insightful)
Re: This summary is lazy and here is why (Score:2)
Welcome to Slashdot. First time?
Although I'll give you you're due - this is the best example of the editors lack of give-a-shit for a while.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that read the summary twice trying to figure out what the fuck Clubhouse was and if I cared or not....
They told me... (Score:2)