Spaces are the main reason I come back here.
Not the timeline. The live rooms.
I have been in them for over a year. Tesla Spaces first as a fanboy, then with something to say once I had the car. January 18, 2026 I stumbled into “Sunday service with a bunch of dogs” and said I would join more. March 6 I was in an AI discussion where the volume was broken but I stayed anyway — the thread went into consciousness and hype versus real work. March 23 I shared a music mixer full of uke, Radiohead, singing and instruments so others could see it. April 7 I saw one and passed. The recurring ishkabubbles rooms feel like a nightly show to the people who live in them.
You can tell in five seconds if a Space is cool or not.
You can tell in 5 seconds if the Space is cool or not.
— Hovhannes Mkhitaryan (@hovinthenorth) July 6, 2025
hosted or announced
explicit listener moments
Showing Up as Host
When I host, the topics are the ones I am actually working on.
December 17, 2025 I posted a bare JOIN NOW and spent the thread designing better history for recorded Spaces — save the titles over time, let hosts publish the topics, let Grok summarize.
March 9, 2026 was “VIBE CODING SPACE.” 9PM Pacific, or later if the kid was still up. Live room or AI-chill-music livestream backup.
VIBE CODING SPACE
— Hovhannes Mkhitaryan (@hovinthenorth) March 9, 2026
Tonight at 9PM PACIFIC
(or later if my son isn’t asleep by then)
2 OPTIONS to TUNE IN:
- Coming to the Space
- Streaming the livestream (AI chill background MUSIC)
May 13 “Talking EBITDA.” Straight business talk, no thread.
May 29 “Hey Grok, please fix X.” I dropped the link and used the room to point at the actual Signal work and the other things I was shipping.
June brought more. The format gets used for the things that need voice and presence instead of another post that disappears.
The hosted rooms are fewer than the ones I just show up for. That is fine. When the room is open the signal moves differently.
Spaces are totally not podcasts. Podcasts have speakers, and conversations, and listeners, and often they are recorded… wait.
The Tool We Had to Build Ourselves
By late 2025 the product had gone quiet. “X Spaces hasn’t seen a new feature or bug fix in years.”
I had already been filing tickets in public. July:
𝕏 Feature Idea: - Make Host
— Hovhannes Mkhitaryan (@hovinthenorth) July 9, 2025
Make another account the Host of a Space.
Many Spaces have to be ended early because the original host has to go, while co-hosts can often pick up the MC duties and keep the Space going.
This will increase the average length of Spaces.
“Make Host” so a room didn’t have to end when the original host left. December: I posted a JOIN NOW link and spent the thread sketching what recorded Spaces should actually keep — every title over time, topics surfaced, Grok summaries. “DEPLOY GROK ON X ALREADY.”
February 2026 I stopped waiting and built the client myself.
Search live or scheduled. Grid or date-sorted. Reminders. See the hosts and speakers before you commit. Language filters. The “IQ of speakers” joke filter because some rooms are brutal.
I ran the build sessions in public. “Tonight’s X Spaces Claude Code session.” The X API made keeping a real service expensive, so it stayed a personal tool.
Even later the contrast stayed sharp. In a thread about Grok fixing X through user feedback I said: “if grok build is so good why are Spaces unmanaged.”
The tool existed because the native experience was starving the one surface that was still giving real-time signal.
What the Format Actually Gives
The notification still pulls people in. The Grok Imagine community lives actually worked — everyone got the ping and showed up. Real voices, real back and forth that then became the next thread or the next piece of shipping.
I tell people building on X to just open a Space instead of another DM thread. Faster feedback. Harder to hide.
The format records. Enough that the conversation can be referenced later. That is more than most live things manage.
The Unfinished Part
In 2025 I was mostly listening. “You can tell in 5 seconds if the Space is cool or not.” I filed public feature requests — Make Host so a room didn’t have to die when the original host left. Side bets in a delayed high-profile thread: “Will the space crash? Will Vivek come to relieve himself?”
By December I was posting JOIN NOW links and using the room to design what the recordings should actually keep — every title over time, topics surfaced, Grok summaries.
February 2026 the product still hadn’t moved. I built the client myself: search live or scheduled, grid views, reminders, see the hosts and speakers before you join.
The traceable rooms are the ones that left marks. January “Sunday service with a bunch of dogs” — I stumbled in and said I would join more. March 6 the AI discussion where volume was broken but the thread went deep on consciousness and hype versus real work. March 9 VIBE CODING SPACE, title in the post, with the AI-chill-music livestream option. March 23 the music mixer of uke, Radiohead, singing and instruments — I shared the link. April 7 the one I saw and passed on.
Tesla Spaces for over a year. The ishkabubbles rooms that run like a nightly show. The Grok Imagine community lives that actually pulled people in.
Dozens more never got a public link from me.
The platform makes it hard to see your own history in them and expensive to build the missing pieces. It still treats Spaces as a side thing.
That is why the tool. That is also why, in a thread calling for the product’s death because it had not progressed, I said:
Spaces are the main reason I come back here.
— Hovhannes Mkhitaryan (@hovinthenorth) April 23, 2026
I keep showing up.
The rooms are where the people actually building on the platform talk to each other in real time, without the performance layer of a long thread. That is still rare.
Until something better comes along, or the company remembers it owns the thing, the layer stays open because the people in it refuse to let it die.
