Hopick

Hopick is a social app for Hong Kong, written in Cantonese — a place to put what you actually think, and then find out who else does. Post the photo from the walk home. Recommend the noodle shop nobody knows about. Paste the song you've had on repeat. Ask the question you would only ask here. Then watch who answers you. Safe, free, no ads. Made in Hong Kong, for Hong Kong. What you can do here Write a line, a paragraph, or the whole thing — whichever shape the thought has. Post photos — one, or a whole row. Your day, your work, the sky on the way up a hill. Recommend a place — add a location and it opens a page; the next person who finds that shop found it because of you. Share a song — paste a Spotify or Apple Music link and it becomes a card you can play inside the post. YouTube too. Leave a voice note — some things come out wrong in text and right out loud. Vote — upvote what you rate, downvote what you don't. Votes move posts up the Explore charts. Ask what people think — open a poll and watch the room answer; a day, a week, or longer if you extend it. See what Hong Kong is talking about — Explore has what's hot now, the best of the week, what's most argued about. Pepper News 青焦新報 is a daily Cantonese briefing from our editors. Start a topic — write what's in your head, then read what people shared before you. Find your next app — the Hong Kong App Directory collects apps made in Hong Kong, or made for it. Browse by category, save the ones worth keeping, and list your own with an icon, a few screenshots and proof the app is yours. It is in beta, and it grows as people submit. Then something comes back Comments that read like people talking — photos, formatting, links, @mentions. Replies land in your notifications, opened on the exact line someone wrote. Every upvote on your post sends you a bean. The smallest possible thank you, and it adds up. Meet someone new Message anyone. The people you follow, and anyone who accepted you, reach you for free; a stranger spends a few beans on the first hello. Read receipts, a typing indicator, quoted replies. Edit within 24 hours, unsend whenever. Blocking freezes a thread quietly, without telling the other side. Who can see you is up to you Block someone and the two of you disappear from each other: posts, comments, notifications, search, mentions, even a link someone sends you. Restrict is the lighter version — they stay where they are, and you simply stop hearing them. Mute a person or a conversation without unfollowing anyone. Community rules are written down and kept in the app. Report a post, a comment or a person. A restricted account can appeal, and a human reads it again. Free, no ads, no boosted posts No ads, no paid promotion, nothing pushed above the rest because someone paid for it. Hopick is Hong Kong's own social app, written in Cantonese, and it belongs to the people using it. Download it, and tell Hong Kong's story in its own words.