"Do you have a Clubhouse invitation code?" This sentence seems to overshadow the limelight of "Have you done a nucleic acid test?" recently, and has become a greeting among everyone.
At the beginning of the month, Clubhouse, an audio social platform for instant communication, suddenly entered the public eye and quickly and widely attracted attention and discussion. The Clubhouse, which was established less than a year ago, was able to get out of the circle mainly because of an online sharing by Elon Musk. It is estimated that Musk did not expect that he had such a powerful "carrying" ability, which directly contributed to The first "Internet outlet" will arrive in 2021.
What exactly is Clubhouse?
Why is Clubhouse so magical? Knowing the related question "Why is Clubhouse this social software so popular?" attracted 720,000 people to watch and discuss, and everyone was curious about what kind of application Clubhouse is?
Simply put, Clubhouse is a voice social product, the core functions are:
1. The host creates a room and invites one or more guests to voice chat together. The audience can raise their hands to apply if they have questions, and they can speak after approval;
2. The host manages the room, including functions such as loading, unloading, banning, blocking, and unblocking.
In fact, before Clubhouse became popular, various voice social applications had appeared in China, and the products were already very mature. Under the influence of Clubhouse this time, voice social networking has once again exploded. Presumably, some teams plan to "ride on the heat" to launch their own "Clubhouse", so how to quickly integrate their own "Clubhouse" in one day?
What functions should your "Clubhouse" have?
In fact, it is not very technically difficult to make products similar to Clubhouse. At present, there are professional service providers on the market that can provide mature solutions. For example, the voice social solution of Internet communication cloud service provider Rongyun can help developers quickly implement communication functions similar to Clubhouse.
Interaction with microphone: The host can send an invitation or the audience can request the microphone, and the audience will become the anchor of the microphone. All users in the room can listen to the interaction between the host and the anchor in real time.
Wheat position management: The homeowner can manage the wheat position, including loading, unloading, banning, lifting, blocking, unblocking, and blocking users, etc. The user who grabs the wheat position can connect with the host at the same time. All users in the live broadcast room can see the status of each microphone in real time.
User status statistics: The homeowner, host and viewers in the live room can see the users entering or leaving the current live room in real time, so that the user status of the live room is clear at a glance.
Host business process
Audience business process
In addition to these basic functions, Rongyun also provides more functions that Clubhouse does not yet have.
Live recording: support the platform to record the content of the live room, which is convenient for monitoring and backtracking;
Audit function: real-time audit of voice messages, text and picture messages, audio and video streams, and platform UGC content to avoid violations and crack down on illegal production;
Network status query: users who join the live broadcast room can view the current network quality and judge the network status;
IM message interaction: In the live broadcast room, the host, Lianmai anchor and audience can communicate in real time by using text and picture messages;
Extended functions: support background music playback to help set off the theme atmosphere of the live broadcast room, and can also flexibly access third-party plug-ins to achieve functions such as beauty, voice change/beautiful voice.
In the process of "re-engraving" Clubhouse, the user's experience also needs to be considered. Even Clubhouse, with the rapid increase in the number of users, also exposed some product technical deficiencies, such as frequent users suddenly exiting the room, inaccurate user online status, voice frame loss / freeze / delay, etc., except The problem of high audio concurrency processing capability, and the problem of insufficient IM signaling.
The advantages of Rongyun technology help developers solve problems
Through more than ten years of technical accumulation and customer service practical experience, Rongyun has formed a set of mature and complete voice social solutions. Through the dual integration capabilities of "IM+RTC", it helps developers solve various problems and precipitates itself five advantages:
Simple and efficient signaling: The signaling channel based on Rongyun IM communication service is safe, reliable and efficient;
Mass message concurrency: The tried-and-tested mass message distribution model can calmly deal with hundreds of billions of message distribution scenarios per hour;
Global interconnection: Based on the Rongyun SD-CAN global communication network, physical nodes of global users can access nearby;
Real-time audio and video interaction: audio and video connection between multiple people; smooth live interaction, with a delay of less than 300ms;
Unlimited number of online people: Through a service architecture that can be expanded at any level, there is no upper limit for the number of people online at the same time.
In order to serve developers more efficiently and conveniently, Rongyun has opened a voice chat room Demo for free, and also provides a wealth of supporting documents, allowing developers to implement voice social functions in as little as one day and quickly go online.