Artashes Sargsyan, co-founder and former host of the Comedy Club show, launched the Russian analogue of the Clubhouse voice social network, the Golos application. Vitaly Dubinin, founder of the mobile developer iD EAST, became Sargsyan's partner. In Golos, you can create chat rooms, listen to other people in their rooms. Recorded broadcasts and battles are also available on the social network.
While Golos is only available for download on iOS, it is not possible to download for Android. As Sargsyan told Forbes, the application is still at the beta stage – the developers are eliminating the shortcomings. The Golos interface is similar to the Clubhouse, the magazine notes.
Sargsyan and Dubinin decided to create Golos in February – March 2021 amid a sharp rise in the popularity of Clubhouse, which, however, was followed by a decline. The partners decided to make an analogue of the American social network, but “their own, with working mechanics.” Dubinin was engaged in the development and search for investors, and Sargsyan – in the programming of airwaves.
As a result, commercial director of MegaFon Vlad Wolfson, deputy chairman of the board of AFK Sistema Andrey Dubovskov, founder of the Fort Ross fund Viktor Orlovsky, founder of Qiwi Andrey Romanenko, founder of KupiVIP Oscar Hartmann and about 50 other investors invested in Golos. The amount of investments was about $ 296,000.
Golos was produced by active Clubhouse users Elizaveta Kuznetsova and Pavel Osovtsov. Sargsyan's team intends to develop an analogue of the radio broadcasting grid. Bloggers Leonid Parfyonov, Alexandra Mitroshina, Valentin Petukhov (Wylsacom), Ekaterina Shulman and others can enter the list of leading bloggers.
Technoblogger and active user of Clubhouse Pavel Gurov was skeptical about the prospects of Golos. “Regardless of the good naming, I think it will not skyrocket. For a social network to work and attract people, it must already have a formed community. And the fashionable resonance, as with the Clubhouse, will not work the second time – the second time you will not enter this river, ”he said.
Gurov recalled that the foreign analogues of Clubhouse – Vox, Spoon, Cappuccino, Riffr, Yac – “were also blown away”. According to the blogger, the voice room market has already been sorted out by Facebook, Twitter and Telegram, which introduced these options after the takeoff of Clubhouse.
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