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The most wild thing, to me, is how effectively it has been taken over by scam artists. The other day I tuned into a 'startup pitch' show where the premise is yo
by zackbloom 4y ago
The most wild thing, to me, is how effectively it has been taken over by scam artists. The other day I tuned into a 'startup pitch' show where the premise is you pitch your company idea to an 'investor'. Unfortunately in practice the investor applauds your idea, and then claims he will 'invest' engineering time worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but he needs you to 'prove you are serious' by investing tens of thousands of dollars of your own money.
I'm sure after putting up the cash you are handed some janky app worth nothing close to what you paid, much less his supposed investment. While maybe not being illegal, it was incredibly predatory. The 'entrepreneurs' weren't being asked the most basic questions about their business, and were clearly not financially in a place to invest the money he was demanding. Rather than helping them achieve an entrepreneurial dream, he is sucking up the limited money they have (perhaps even inviting them to take on debt) without any real hope of success.
It seems like every channel on Clubhouse is some version of exploitation, whether it's about crypto, your love life, or your money. I don't know how I would moderate that away if I was them, but it seems like the time to do it was several months ago, and now might be too late.
- matchsticks 4y ago
- cwillu 4y agoSomebody got sick of saying “if I had a nickle for every time somebody had some great idea for an app” and decided to go out there and get the nickle.
- cosmodisk 4y agoThere's a company that does something very similar a few floors up in our office building. The website is atrocious,the 'tech' is so absurd that it could win absurd of a month award. Yet, the most expensive cars, with the company logo, some shady links with Russia and etc. It's a joke. I feel bad for people who fall for it.
- xwdv 4y agoI remember entering a channel once that was just a bunch of “Queens” with hot avatars sitting at the top, and the host who was some dude with a smooth big black guy voice would talk with the audience and ask people “which of these queens would you like to sponsor?” and people would donate money to them or whatever. And the queens would also talk a bit if they felt like it. God it was stupid, one of the last channels I checked out before dropping this app completely.
- PragmaticPulp 4y agoThis is how I remember most of the Clubhouse content during the initial popularity. There were exceptions such as famous VCs, authors, and tech people doing Q&A, but everything else felt like content marketers, online course sellers, and crypto scammers having a field day with their sudden access to a lot of bored and curious people. Outside of a few pre-scheduled and planned Clubhouse events, I never actually found anything organically interesting on the platform.
- mr_beans 4y agoDon’t forget all the “Life Coaches”
- 0des 4y agoMy life coach works at Chilli's, I can go see them any time between 3 and 7 on weekdays. I can put in a word if anybody wants to respond below. Blue Cross is showing some resistance, but I think they'll come around.
- 0des 4y agoUpdate: I spoke with Tyler, he says our new meeting place is TGI Fridays but that you're all welcome. He asks that groups of 8 or more call ahead.
- vba616 4y agoBecause I didn't clearly remember the character's name in Fight Club, this made me initially think of kind of a superposition of Brad Pitt as Tyler in Fight Club and as Chad the personal trainer in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_After_Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_After_Reading. "Pitt...said when he was shown the script, he told the Coens he did not know how to play the part because the character was such an idiot: "There was a pause, and then Joel goes...'You'll be fine'."
- sly010 4y agoso basically the internet
- b20000 4y agoclubhouse is full of VCs and angels. wannabe celebrities.