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Direcon for Clubhouse - All-in-one Clubhouse management platform

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The very first all-in-one Clubhouse management platform:
The MVP version of Direcon is designed to solve the urgent problems of people who moderate rooms on Clubhouse like lack of insights about their rooms and limited moderation options.

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Tim Carambat
Hi! Great product, and thanks for building this. Out of curiosity, how can this work when Clubhouse does not have an official API? I'm worried this product might be using the recently reverse-engineered API (https://github.com/stypr/clubhou...…) or some flavor of it. I hope this is not the case because the author of this code says, "Please note that you may get a permanent ban for sending invalid API requests. Server's rate limit and security mechanisms are quite strict." Since we are logging into our personal CH accounts to use this, we are potentially at risk for a permanent ban if Clubhouse changes even a single parameter of their internal API causing your service's requests to fail. From what I see, the metrics captured are awesome, and this would be an incredible product for moderators. I just really hope the app is built on stable footing and doesn't put us as users at risk. How can I be sure this is safe to use for my account from Clubhouse's standpoint?
Buğra Kaan Ayaz
Maker
@tim_carambat Hey Tim, Thanks for mentioning it. Since Clubhouse is a new platform, they unfortunately don't have a public API yet. We have listened to all of the Townhalls that took place since we joined the platform and it looks like a public API is not something they will launch soon. So just like what Tweetdeck did for Twitter, we didn't want to wait and we built our product without the public API. But while doing that, we restrict our platform to people who moderate a room on Clubhouse to avoid unwelcomed activities. We are a team who worked with Twitter's and Instagram's public API's for the last 5 years and we tried to develop features which we believe will be supported by the public API Clubhouse will eventually release. Therefore we are waiting for the day they release it and we will immediately switch to it when it's live. Regarding the risk of parameter changes, we have a health check system in place that will stop our operations if anything changes.
Serg
@tim_carambat @kaanayaz_ very interesting. We have also been thinking about these features as we started clubhype.io back in January but stopped because we thought it makes no sense to "hack" it until there is an official API, let alone ask for funding and try to get people to pay for something which is based on reverse engineering and can be shut down every moment. @sushburakunver Can you explain the point "We have already raised a seed round to grow our team and be able to develop the features in our roadmap faster." a little bit further? How can you raise for something based on no official API and hire people based on the idea that the API will allow all of that?
Buğra Kaan Ayaz
Maker
@tim_carambat @sushburakunver @serglotz Hey Sergej, interesting comment 🧐 First of all, you don't invest in products, you invest in companies and teams. I think this will answer your second question. So, about the technology we used, we are the team who have informed the Clubhouse team about the vulnerability of their Agora integration and helped them to fix it before it's published on articles. We're trying to be transparent on our approach as much as we can, so if you spent a time on our website you will notice that we are not trying to harm CH, yet we try to help their power users just like Tweetdeck did for Twitter.
Tim Carambat
@kaanayaz_ @sushburakunver @serglotz We had the very same thought at Host Notes. We know that Clubhouse is moving fast internally so trying to build against a black box, and certainly not a sanctioned one, could have proved problematic for our users if they get banned because we were proxying them and made even a minor mistake. I am sure all of us are aware that Clubhouse can change anything at any time and make 3rd party applications totally unable to function - its the risk we take I suppose. @kaanayaz_ my intention was not to proclaim you were using some particular code base to provide your platform service as if the work was not original. I fully can recognize that Direcon totally built something novel and authentic that was a signifiant undertaking (and certainly needed by the community), but was more to a point that this is not a Clubhouse sanctioned integration and I think those risks should be disclosed to users somewhere. I understand you took great care for failsafes and protecting your user accounts, but rate limit watching is very hard to proactively protect against since the API does not provide a rate return response, since its only meant to be used internally. That is all I was trying to convey. Should I moderate a room with 2K+ concurrent users I think I could trip an alarm with that many requests? Can I ask what is the largest rooms you know this platform has been used with?
Sush
Maker
Hello ProductHunt, Hope you’re all healthy and safe during these hard days. We are really proud to introduce you the very first all-in-one Clubhouse management platform. Here at Direcon, we aim to become a power tool for Clubhouse’s power users just like what Buffer did for Instagram or TweetDeck did for Twitter. Therefore, we only let our users to use Direcon if they are moderator in a room to avoid them performing activities that could be unwelcomed by Clubhouse. The MVP version of Direcon is designed to solve the urgent problems of people who moderate rooms on Clubhouse like lack of insights about their rooms and limited moderation options. We have already raised a seed round to grow our team and be able to develop the features in our roadmap faster. With the upcoming features, we would like to accelerate influencer marketing being a thing for Clubhouse as well which we believe this will help on brands, Clubhouse influencers and Clubhouse itself on their growth. The first version of Direcon provides; [Room Insights] - Duration of the room - Max listeners reached at a time - Total unique listeners have joined the room - Total time listened - New followers gained during the session - Avg. time listened by listeners - Avg. stickiness of listeners - Number of people spoke in the room - Number of people raised their hands Sample Insights : https://direcon.com/r/EJOq0VVb [Audience Insights] - People who have listened to your room - Number of rooms they have listened in - Total time listened by them - How many times they have raised their hands? [Moderation] - Mute selected speakers easier - Mute all others except the selected speaker easier - Make selected speakers moderator easier - Move selected speakers to audience easier - Set a timer for an individual speaker and mute/move to audience them at the end. - When someone raised their hands, you’ll know if they have listened any of your past rooms and how long they have been listening your current room. If that sounds interesting to you, we invite you all to try Direcon for free. Please keep in mind that the first version of Direcon has been built in just 3 weeks and this is just a beginning. Therefore, any feedback are welcomed but we have a strict rule when it comes to building a new feature; Direcon will never provide scam services like many other businesses do for other social media platforms. If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to reach us at sush[at]direcon.com We wish you a great week!
Impozzible
@sushburakunver @daryllman apparently clubhouse has fixed the issue with their auth token generation, so this doesn’t work again
Batuhan Katırcı
Maker
@sushburakunver @daryllman @impozzible1 Clubhouse disconnecting you from other devices, you relogin on your iPhone and refresh on Direcon
Ismail Pelaseyed
Nice execution on this one ?makers :)
Buğra Kaan Ayaz
Maker
@pelaseyed Thanks
Farzan Ahmed
Great product. Amazing to see such an ecosystem build so quickly for clubhouse!
Sush
Maker
Thank you! @farzanahmed1
Cem Hurturk
Well done, Direcon team!
Fatih Güner
I'm using the closed beta for 2 weeks and Direcon is spectacular! It's very useful for people who hold Clubhouse events regularly. I'm holding such events on Tuesdays and Fridays, this tool gives me great insight who I should invite to my next event and what type of stuff we should talk in our events. Thanks, guys! Congrats on the launch! (my Clubhouse is @fatih )
Buğra Kaan Ayaz
Maker
@fatih @fatihguner Thanks Fatih, I'm a fan of your events 🥰
Mohammed Blal
This is something awesome! Great job, guys! 🔥
Buğra Kaan Ayaz
Maker
@moyassbi Thank you 🙏🏻
ahmetaksoy
Great product! This is what makes clubhouse whole. These days data matters more than ever and clubhouse is promising for future. Direcon is about to be where data and clubhouse meets! Congrats ?makers for such a good job.
Buğra Kaan Ayaz
Maker
@ahmetpasha Thank you 🙏🏻
Hakan Torun
Perfect!
Osman Koc
Super cool product💣
Murat Yaşar
Awesome work!
Birol Kabakoglu
Well done!
Berkay Yavuz
Great product! Amazing insight, good catch!
Jake Tital
I cant wait to dive deeper into this. Ive been hearing nothing but good things about Clubhouse and this looks like a perfect tool
Latif Cakiroglu
perfect 🤘
Wei Sheng
Cool product. I thought Clubhouse would provide such a feature as many people use it to host panels.
Pankaj Jain
Hi @Sush Thanks for making this! It looks very interesting but I'm curious why you're using phone numbers to authenticate and could you please share some info about privacy and security aspects of the data you're collecting, including phone numbers? Thanks!!
Sush
Maker
@pjain We’ve been asked this so many times, therefore we will publish a blog post to answer all of them. I’ll reply to this comment when it’s ready 🤞🏻
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
@pjain this is how Clubhouse authenticates you, so they're just using a replay-attack to gain access to the private API.
Max Prilutskiy
Good idea! 💯
Ravi Bajnath
This is probably a great app, but it kills the enjoyment of clubhouse by creating attachment to analytics versus dialectics.
Buğra Kaan Ayaz
Maker
@ravi_bajnath That's a way to look at it but as Paul said on the latest Townhall, these metrics are useful for sponsors and creators which is eventually useful for listeners since they will see more rooms on their feeds. If Clubhouse wants to compete with Twitter and Facebook clones, they need to provide insights to their power users.
Ravi Bajnath
@kaanayaz_ I can understand this point of view, but I'm referring to being the end user of this change in experiencing clubhouse as a product. I like clubhouse for the idea, not the place. Commercialization and growth of a platform, as described in the Townhall, is just C.R.E.A.M. ---- you become the targeted product. Hunters are already doing that now and cheapening the experience lol.
Guri Sitchinava
First of all thanks creators for making this service 🙏 I really enjoyed the potential of this service but there are a couple of issues: 1. When I am going to Register my account, there is a feeling that the service should be a scam or phishing or whatever. I see there are terms of condition and privacy of polity but it's necessary. Make more loyal feeling for users to give you data what services needs. 2. When I registered my account there was only one service that was free and it's blocked or disabled and does not shows it's working for you. 3. Suddenly if you want to deactivate your account there is not any panel to request that which is I think really high priority for security. Keep it up, I really enjoyed the potential of this. Show more Trials, Demo or something to test these features. Thanks
Buğra Kaan Ayaz
Maker
@gurisitchinava Hey Guri, 1. Thanks for your feedback, will think deeper about it and any suggestions are welcomed. 2. Moderation is not live yet but all other features have free usage options. You need to be a moderator in a room to test them maybe that's why you were confused. You can track 5 rooms for free every month. 3. Delete account option will be live in an hour.