HOOPT

September 14, 2024

Hello HOOPTers! As we bid farewell to the sunny, hazy days of summer, we're gearing up for an exciting sprint to the end of the year! This season might be wrapping up, but here at HOOPT, we’re just getting started. We’ve been busy behind the scenes, making HOOPT bolder, more secure, more intuitive, and packed with integrated new features you’ve been asking for that’ll take your experience to the next level. Here’s what’s new in this update: Log-in enhancements have been made for a seamless sign-up & log-in process. Big Maps Improvement: Our killer maps feature is officially live, and it’s a game-changer. Now, you can explore any place on Earth and add it directly to your collections with just one click. Simply tap on any location on the map, and the HOOPT Box will pop up with the quick add buttons, essential details, friends’ input and its feed. This important release makes discovering and saving your favorite spots faster, easier, and more accurate than ever before. Whether at a local neighborhood walking around or planning your dream destination halfway across the world, adding to your collections is now as simple as a tap. The whole world is at your fingertips! Enhanced Visual Storytelling: At HOOPT, we’re passionate about quickly and effectively capturing and inspiring with life’s stories—yours, ours, and everyone in between. Our new visual storytelling tools make it easier than ever to tag relevant collection items, friends, and communities directly in your photos. Whether you’re snapping a picture of the movie you're watching, books you just picked up, a friend who inspired you, or a community that led you to a new discovery, you can now make your memories even more meaningful and interactive by tagging them on the photo or in its caption. Your collections, activity feed, and photo albums will serve as an on-demand dynamic visual diary, allowing you to record and share your activities and connections in ways that words alone can’t capture. From snapshots of your favorite cafés to the books that changed your life, bring your HOOPT journey to life, one picture at a time. New, Guided Onboarding & Discovery Content: Starting a HOOPT journey has never been smoother or richer for your friend and community invites! Our all-new guided onboarding ensures your invited friends hit the ground running, walking them through what HOOPT has to offer. From sign-up to their 100th item, we make sure they feel right at home and safe in the HOOPT universe. We’re also excited to now offer the highest quality discovery content to both new and existing users, with over 500k places, movies, and books individually marked as "want to" or "loved it" by HOOPTers. This is intelligence built from real user desires and loved experiences—and only available to them on-demand, securely & contextually, with zero third-party manipulation. Coming Up: What to Expect Through 2024! Under HOOPT+ Subscription, we have been cooking an exciting lineup of new features, including integrated AI tools, Custom User Lists, Smart Diary, and External Sharing of items, lists, and photo albums—plus expanded HOOPT access on iPad and desktop platforms. In addition, our user friendly Help Center and language support will be available to all our users. So here's to a season of new beginnings and bold moves! Whether you're discovering new places, curating your collections, or simply connecting with your favorite communities, HOOPT is committed to keep your world connected, organized, vibrant, and authentically yours. Thanks for being part of our journey; as always, we value your feedback—let us know what you think! Happy HOOPTin’, The HOOPT Team

September 13, 2024

Hello HOOPTers! As we bid farewell to the sunny, hazy days of summer, we're gearing up for an exciting sprint to the end of the year! This season might be wrapping up, but here at HOOPT, we’re just getting started. We’ve been busy behind the scenes, making HOOPT bolder, more secure, more intuitive, and packed with integrated new features you’ve been asking for that’ll take your experience to the next level. Here’s what’s new in this update: Big Maps Improvement: Our killer maps feature is officially live, and it’s a game-changer. Now, you can explore any place on Earth and add it directly to your collections with just one click. Simply tap on any location on the map, and the HOOPT Box will pop up with the quick add buttons, essential details, friends’ input and its feed. This important release makes discovering and saving your favorite spots faster, easier, and more accurate than ever before. Whether at a local neighborhood walking around or planning your dream destination halfway across the world, adding to your collections is now as simple as a tap. The whole world is at your fingertips! Enhanced Visual Storytelling: At HOOPT, we’re passionate about quickly and effectively capturing and inspiring with life’s stories—yours, ours, and everyone in between. Our new visual storytelling tools make it easier than ever to tag relevant collection items, friends, and communities directly in your photos. Whether you’re snapping a picture of the movie you're watching, books you just picked up, a friend who inspired you, or a community that led you to a new discovery, you can now make your memories even more meaningful and interactive by tagging them on the photo or in its caption. Your collections, activity feed, and photo albums will serve as an on-demand dynamic visual diary, allowing you to record and share your activities and connections in ways that words alone can’t capture. From snapshots of your favorite cafés to the books that changed your life, bring your HOOPT journey to life, one picture at a time. New, Guided Onboarding & Discovery Content: Starting a HOOPT journey has never been smoother or richer for your friend and community invites! Our all-new guided onboarding ensures your invited friends hit the ground running, walking them through what HOOPT has to offer. From sign-up to their 100th item, we make sure they feel right at home and safe in the HOOPT universe. We’re also excited to now offer the highest quality discovery content to both new and existing users, with over 500k places, movies, and books individually marked as "want to" or "loved it" by HOOPTers. This is intelligence built from real user desires and loved experiences—and only available to them on-demand, securely & contextually, with zero third-party manipulation. Coming Up: What to Expect Through 2024! Under HOOPT+ Subscription, we have been cooking an exciting lineup of new features, including integrated AI tools, Custom User Lists, Smart Diary, and External Sharing of items, lists, and photo albums—plus expanded HOOPT access on iPad and desktop platforms. In addition, our user friendly Help Center and language support will be available to all our users. So here's to a season of new beginnings and bold moves! Whether you're discovering new places, curating your collections, or simply connecting with your favorite communities, HOOPT is committed to keep your world connected, organized, vibrant, and authentically yours. Thanks for being part of our journey; as always, we value your feedback—let us know what you think! Happy HOOPTin’, The HOOPT Team

July 2, 2024

Hotfix Update to Last Version, including fix of verification issue with auto-deleted Messages. Dear HOOPTers, We are happy to share our new release with you. HOOPT is off Beta and in the App Store! If you have been our Beta user, please check your email and follow the simple steps to transition smoothly and effectively. What's New: 1. Collections Improvements: Discover enhanced collection folders and shortcuts next to the 'Select List' feature, making it easier to explore and act on your and your friends' Collections. 2. Seamless Invites 2.0: HOOPT is invite-only, and you decide how the network grows. When you send a personal or group invite link, we will seamlessly carry your new invites from the link into their app. Post onboarding, they will automatically be your friend or find themselves in your group/community chat. 3. Introducing HOOPT+: The HOOPT+ subscription is now available for $8.99 per month, offering powerful Community Hosting and Invite privileges, along with our proprietary features such as automated Community Collections. Join HOOPT+ Today and Start Unleashing a World of Innovative New Features: 1. Your Private & Innovative App: HOOPT is crafted by 20 life enthusiasts like you and serves only you. Plus membership supports sustainable "for-you only" innovation. Your app is 100% personalized, private, free of brand advertising, and by design, does not allow for any third-party 'manipulation.' All it does in the background is continuously simulate, automate, machine learn, and get more artificially intelligent based on you and for you. 2. Community Hosting: Create, host, and revive your vibrant communities with ease. Secure unique community IDs, use Community invite links, and apply to become a Founding Community Launch Partner. Your non-host community members do not need a HOOPT+ subscription to participate. 3. Step into HOOPT+: Access new features like Community Insights & Dashboard, SmartDiary, MeetMe, and Ai+. Create and share custom lists externally. Use HOOPT on iPad and Desktop, with many more features as we roll them out rest of 2024! HOOPT Beta Highlights: HOOPT search now boasts over 250m items and collections totaling 338K entities, including 63K movies, 55K books, and 220K places. All are organized and available in context, making it easier to access, utilize, discover and share what we want and love. Collectively, our Beta users in 52 countries have had 385K app sessions, giving birth to 12K dynamic discovery lists, with their 87K loved it votes and 78K want to intentions, available on demand to our existing HOOPTers and insightfully welcoming new ones. Across the globe, we gather on one platform to live and share our life journeys, in private and with mutual respect, united by HOOPT. Special mention goes to our 35 1k+ Club members, whom we see as the global mayors of the HOOPT app and will be the hosts of our upcoming HOOPTer events. What's Upcoming: HOOPT 1. Guided user onboarding and How-To Articles with easy to follow Giphy videos. 2. Fun animations & iShare functionality! 3. Big Map Improvement & Major Google Integration. 4. Video Moments & Photo Albums 2.0. HOOPT+ 1. Community host insights & dashboard. 2. HOOPT on iPad & Desktop. 3. Custom user lists and the ability to share externally. Next Big Milestone: Our next big milestone is our very first HOOPTer Live Event from San Francisco on September 17. We will discuss the significance of the Beta period, the power of the core pillars you have helped create, see what is trending in our HOOPT Network, preview exciting new features, talk about privacy & security and show you how how your very own AI gets trained to support you. Few of our our community and category-leading partners will also join us for partnership announcements. All you will need is your HOOPTer ID to get in. Thank you for being an active part of the app and journey we have been creating! With a lot of love and excitement, Ali and The HOOPT Team

June 22, 2024

Dear HOOPTers, We are overjoyed to share some fantastic news with you. As of today, June 21, HOOPT is officially off Beta and has moved to its new home on the App Store! If you have been our Beta user, please check your email and follow the simple steps to transition smoothly and effectively. What's New: 1. Collections Improvements: Discover enhanced collection folders and shortcuts next to the 'Select List' feature, making it easier to explore and act on your and your friends' Collections. 2. Seamless Invites 2.0: HOOPT is invite-only, and you decide how the network grows. When you send a personal or group invite link, we will seamlessly carry your new invites from the link into their app. Post onboarding, they will automatically be your friend or find themselves in your group/community chat. 3. Introducing HOOPT+: The HOOPT+ subscription is now available for $8.99 per month, offering powerful Community Hosting and Invite privileges, along with our proprietary features such as automated Community Collections. Join HOOPT+ Today and Start Unleashing a World of Innovative New Features: 1. Your Private & Innovative App: HOOPT is crafted by 20 life enthusiasts like you and serves only you. Plus membership supports sustainable "for-you only" innovation. Your app is 100% personalized, private, free of brand advertising, and by design, does not allow for any third-party 'manipulation.' All it does in the background is continuously simulate, automate, machine learn, and get more artificially intelligent based on you and for you. 2. Community Hosting: Create, host, and revive your vibrant communities with ease. Secure unique community IDs, use Community invite links, and apply to become a Founding Community Launch Partner. Your non-host community members do not need a HOOPT+ subscription to participate. 3. Step into HOOPT+: Access new features like Community Insights & Dashboard, SmartDiary, MeetMe, and Ai+. Create and share custom lists externally. Use HOOPT on iPad and Desktop, with many more features as we roll them out rest of 2024! HOOPT Beta Highlights: HOOPT search now boasts over 250m items and collections totaling 338K entities, including 63K movies, 55K books, and 220K places. All are organized and available in context, making it easier to access, utilize, discover and share what we want and love. Collectively, our Beta users in 52 countries have had 385K app sessions, giving birth to 12K dynamic discovery lists, with their 87K loved it votes and 78K want to intentions, available on demand to our existing HOOPTers and insightfully welcoming new ones. Across the globe, we gather on one platform to live and share our life journeys, in private and with mutual respect, united by HOOPT. Special mention goes to our 35 1k+ Club members, whom we see as the global mayors of the HOOPT app and will be the hosts of our upcoming HOOPTer events. What's Upcoming: HOOPT 1. Guided user onboarding and How-To Articles with easy to follow Giphy videos. 2. Fun animations & iShare functionality! 3. Big Map Improvement & Major Google Integration. 4. Video Moments & Photo Albums 2.0. HOOPT+ 1. Community host insights & dashboard. 2. HOOPT on iPad & Desktop. 3. Custom user lists and the ability to share externally. Next Big Milestone: Our next big milestone is our very first HOOPTer Live Event from San Francisco on September 17. We will discuss the significance of the Beta period, the power of the core pillars you have helped create, see what is trending in our HOOPT Network, preview exciting new features, talk about privacy & security and show you how how your very own AI gets trained to support you. Few of our our community and category-leading partners will also join us for partnership announcements. All you will need is your HOOPTer ID to get in. Thank you for being an active part of the app and journey we have been creating! With a lot of love and excitement, Ali and The HOOPT Team

June 12, 2024

Dear HOOPTers, Our transition out of BETA and into our new home on the App Store is progressing smoothly. Yay! Please remember, our final transition date is June 15, 2024, when we will officially shut down HOOPT BETA. Until then, you can use both versions concurrently, but we strongly recommend switching completely to the App Store version, as that is where our future updates and enhancements will be released. Note: Please delete HOOPT BETA after transition. You do not need to keep Test Flight unless you wish to test drive new HOOPT features. What’s New: 1. Collections Improvements: Discover enhanced collection folders (ranked & automated) and shortcuts next to the ‘Select List’ feature, making it easier to explore and act on your and your friends' Collections. 2. Seamless Invites 2.0: HOOPT is invite-only, and you decide how the network grows. When you send a Personal or Group invite link (email no longer required), we will seamlessly carry your new invites from the link into their app. Post on-boarding, they will be automatically your friend or find themselves in your group/community chat, like magic. 3. Introducing HOOPT+: The HOOPT+ subscription is now available for $8.99 per month, starting today, offering powerful Community Hosting and Invite privileges, along with our proprietary and immediately valuable features such as automated Community Collections. Join HOOPT+ Today and start unleashing a world of innovative new HOOPT features! 1. Fuel Your Private App: HOOPT is crafted by 20 life enthusiasts like you and serves only you. 100% personalized based on your inputs, private, ad-free, and funded by users via App Store subscriptions. 2. Community Hosting: Starting today, create, host, and enhance your vibrant communities with ease and peace of mind. Secure unique community IDs, use invite links, and apply to become a Founding Community Launch Partner to help shape the feature roadmap. Please note that non-host community members invited are not required to have a HOOPT+ subscription to be an active member of your community. 3. Step into HOOPT+: Access innovative new features such as SmartDiary, MeetMe and Ai+. Quickly create custom lists and share them externally. Use HOOPT on iPad and Desktop, and many more jewels as we roll them out the rest of 2024! Regular Business: This update includes ongoing bug fixes, performance improvements, and enhancements to security and scalability. What's Upcoming: 1. Get ready for our initial batch of fun animations! 2. Guided Onboarding w/ Checklist & Super Awesome How-To Pages. 3. Map Improvements & Major Google Integration. Thank you for being an active part of the app and journey we are creating! The HOOPT Team

May 16, 2024

Dear HOOPTers, Our transition out of BETA and into our new home on the App Store is progressing smoothly. YaY! Please remember, our final transition date is June 15, 2024, when we will officially shut down HOOPT BETA. Until then, you can use both versions concurrently, but we strongly recommend switching completely to the App Store version, as that is where our future updates and enhancements will be released. Note: Please delete HOOPT BETA after transition. You do not need to keep Test Flight unless you wish to test drive new HOOPT features or join HOOPT+ early. What's New & Exciting : 1- You Asked, We Delivered: Now see total HOOPTer counts for places, movies, and books, and get distance measurements (up to 250m) added to all search results! 2- Seamless Transition: Personal and Group invite links have moved from HOOPT BETA to the App Store version. Your invites will now direct new users to download the App Store version. 3- Hello Verifications: We love seeing verifications left and right—critical to keep you and our platform super secure, ensuring that it’s filled with real, authentic, life-loving humans. Regular Business: This update includes ongoing bug fixes, performance improvements, and enhancements to security and scalability. What's Upcoming: 1- Get ready for our initial batch of fun animations! 2- User Onboarding Checklist & Super Awesome Help Articles/How-To Pages. 3- Map Improvements & Major Google Integration. Thank you for being an active part of the app and journey we are creating! The HOOPT Team

May 15, 2024

Dear HOOPTers, Our transition out of BETA and into our new home on the App Store is progressing smoothly. YaY! Please remember, our final transition date is June 15, 2024, when we will officially shut down HOOPT BETA. Until then, you can use both versions concurrently, but we strongly recommend switching completely to the App Store version, as that is where our future updates and enhancements will be released. Note: Please delete HOOPT BETA after transition. You do not need to keep Test Flight unless you wish to test drive new HOOPT features or join HOOPT+ early. What's New & Exciting : 1- You Asked, We Delivered: Now see total HOOPTer counts for places, movies, and books, and get distance measurements (up to 250m) added to all search results! 2- Seamless Transition: Personal and Group invite links have moved from HOOPT BETA to the App Store version. Your invites will now direct new users to download the App Store version. 3- Hello Verifications: We love seeing verifications left and right—critical to keep you and our platform super secure, ensuring that it’s filled with real, authentic, life-loving humans. Regular Business: This update includes ongoing bug fixes, performance improvements, and enhancements to security and scalability. What's Upcoming: 1- Get ready for our initial batch of fun animations! 2- User Onboarding Checklist & Super Awesome Help Articles/How-To Pages. 3- Map Improvements & Major Google Integration. Thank you for being an active part of the app and journey we are creating! The HOOPT Team

May 7, 2024

Help articles, onboarding components, bug fixes, and performance improvements toward our official off-BETA date of June 15, 2024.

May 5, 2024