About Hoot

We're building the pulse of real life.

Hoot exists for the moments that matter — the ones happening right now, with the people right there. We're not here to give you more to scroll. We're here to give you somewhere to be.

2024
Founded
3
Partners
2
Campus
100
Real moments
What we believe

Three things we won't compromise on.

01

Real over rendered.

Verified presence beats curated personas. Hoot only counts what's actually happening, in the place it's actually happening.

02

Movement over archive.

The best moments don't deserve to be optimized. They deserve to be lived. Hoot is built to disappear with the night.

03

People over product.

You are not the inventory. We never sell location data, build shadow profiles, or trade your presence for ad dollars.

Our story

A platform built for the room, not the feed.

Hoot started with a simple frustration: every social platform claims to "connect people" while making it harder to actually be together. The feed grew. The room got quieter.

So we built the opposite. A network anchored in the physical world — verified by where you actually are, alive only while it's actually happening, and gone the moment the night ends.

Today, Hoot powers the moments that matter at campuses, stadiums, venues, and main streets — turning ambient curiosity into real-world presence, and real-world presence into culture.

2024
Hoot is founded

Built in Lexington, KY. The idea: a social network for places, not posts.

2025
First Canopy goes live

Pilot at UK home game. 12,400 fans linked in a single afternoon.

2026
Greater Arvada joins

First community-wide chamber rollout proves the local-business loop.

2026
1M+ lives connected

Hoot crosses one million real-world Landings across 25+ campuses.

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Want to be part of it?

Careers

We're a small team building fast. If you want to ship things people actually feel in real life, we'd love to meet you.

Open roles

Support

Got a question about the app, your account, or how a feature works? Our humans actually read replies. Promise.

support@thehootapp.com

Press & partners

Working on a story, or want to bring Hoot to your campus, venue, or community? Reach the right team here.

support@thehootapp.com