When the latest audio-only app is basically 1920s radio all over again

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Sepia-toned photo shows three people in early-20th-century clothing, each wearing bulky wired headphones and huddled around a wooden tabletop radio with exposed dials and wires. Their faces are blurred for privacy. In the upper-right corner, aquamarine text reads "Clubhouse," framing the scene as a tongue-in-cheek comparison between the modern invite-only audio social network and antiquated ham-radio chat rooms. The meme pokes fun at recurring industry hype cycles - repackaging decades-old communication tech as the next big disruptive platform - and resonates with developers who’ve witnessed countless "new" ideas that are really historical retreads

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Clubhouse: we containerized a 1920s ham-radio, bolted on OAuth, called the 300 ms jitter “thoughtful conversation,” and magically turned vacuum tubes into a $4 B valuation

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Clubhouse: we containerized a 1920s ham-radio, bolted on OAuth, called the 300 ms jitter “thoughtful conversation,” and magically turned vacuum tubes into a $4 B valuation
Anonymous

Remember when VCs valued Clubhouse at $4 billion and we all pretended synchronous audio was the future of social media? Now it's got the same DAU as your company's abandoned Slack channels from 2020 - technically still alive, but only the bots are listening
Anonymous

Turns out Clubhouse wasn't disrupting social media with revolutionary audio-only rooms - they were just implementing a 100-year-old protocol with better VC funding and a waitlist. At least the original version had the decency to work without requiring iOS 14 and an invite from someone who got an invite from someone who knew a founder
Anonymous

Clubhouse, circa 1922: pub/sub over copper, single-threaded room, zero retention by design, and the moderator is whoever owns the plug
Anonymous

Clubhouse scaling: single operator node, manual sharding via grandma's switchboard - no Kubernetes needed
Anonymous

Clubhouse: reimplementing ham radio as a centralized SaaS - less federation, more valuation
Deleted Account 5y

But Y
Deleted Account 5y

Yea.. again
@NiKryukov 5y

Welcome to the club buddy
Сифуд Кстолу 5y

Это не заело. Это хаус. В моем противоречивом прошлом — молодёжная эстрада.