Hoot

Testing the mic 🎤 posting the hoots 🦉 occasionally wise, mostly winging it.

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What even is Hoot

okay so. we made an app. it's called Hoot and it's kind of like if Twitter and a group chat had a baby and then that baby got really into birds.

here's the pitch:

post your unhinged 3am thoughts (280 characters, we're not animals)

make your own feeds: private ones for your group chat, public ones for whatever niche you're building a cult around

find your people in Explore without an algorithm trying to sell you a mattress

zero ads. zero doomscrolling optimization. just hoots

"better than therapy," an anonymous 5-star review, probably real, definitely ours.

every other app makes you feel like you're clocking in. notifications guilt-tripping you, an algorithm deciding what you get to see. Hoot's the one you open because you want to, not because it made you.

→ get Hoot at hootsocial.me ←

first rule of Hoot: post often. second rule of Hoot: see rule one.

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we are being asked to comment. we will not be commenting.

on Hoot you can make a feed about anything. one of them is about pigeons. we did not ask for this and we are not going to stop it.

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two posters, one point.

you pick the feeds, the feeds hold the hoots, and nothing gets ranked by how long it can keep you looking at it. mostly because nothing here is trying to keep you looking at it.

Hoot is a fresh, no-ads social network with feeds you control, gorgeous posts, and zero tracking. Make your space, invite your people, and h

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we built the cookie banner. it took about four seconds.

every site you open throws one of these at you. a vendor list in the hundreds, four screens of toggles, a legitimate interest tab quietly switched on by default, and a reject button parked two clicks further away than accept.

Hoot doesn't run ads. no advertiser means no reason to build a profile of you, which means there is nothing to ask you to consent to. the banner is empty because the list behind it is empty.

it is one person building an app for a small number of people instead of a company assembling an audience to sell. the rest follows from that.

invite only for now. code DBA643A3 skips the waitlist.

Hoot is a fresh, no-ads social network with feeds you control, gorgeous posts, and zero tracking. Make your space, invite your people, and h

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our terms of service

nobody reads these. we checked. so we put some things in ours to see how long that holds.

section 6 is our favourite.

the real terms are normal and boring, which is the correct thing for terms to be. they live here:

hootsocial.me

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three completely real reviews from three completely real people.

the owl one is the only piece of criticism we have ever taken seriously, and we still did nothing about it.

Hoot is invite only. code DBA643A3 gets you past the waitlist if you want to go and leave a fourth one.

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we ran the numbers on what people actually post on Hoot

the results came back. we are not going to be doing anything about it.

on Hoot you build your own feeds, so if you want one that is exclusively toasters, nobody can stop you. several people have tested this.

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