# Hoolala!

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Hugo Galuppo](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/hg-labs)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/uwazzi/hoolala
- **Demo video:** https://share.synthesia.io/b3b5b63b-baeb-56d9-97e8-00093cb70b1a
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/1034

Hoolala! You never know until you go.

Motto: Get outside. Meet people. Grow inside.

The problem

People share the same places every day (a café, a coworking space, a library, the same bus) and never exchange a word. The brand’s own line puts it best: “We’ve sat at the same table for six months.” / Never spoken. Social media promises connection but keeps people on screens, and most “social” apps are built to maximise time in app. What’s missing is a light, low-pressure nudge that turns a shared place into a real conversation, and then gets out of the way.

What it is

An anti-social-media social network: not anti-social, not anti-technology, not a wellness coach and not an AI companion. It is finite by design, and its only goal is to send you to a real conversation. It has a Nokia 3210-era green monochrome LCD look and a witty, observational voice that never preaches.

How it works
Onboarding as a conversation. A voice reads each question while it types live. You answer by keyboard or dictation: what you thrive on, your energy, the people you bump into during the week, and topics to avoid. Muse Spark strips the filler and keeps what is useful as your private Personal Compass.
Today: one tiny try. Each day the home screen gives you one small real-world try, mixing small talk and kindness, across three levels (soft, brave, bold). The tries adapt with AI so you get braver as you go. A tiny try grows one leaf on your pixel plant.
Around: icebreakers at a place. One look around scans 500 m. If nothing is open, you post an icebreaker, which is a small room anyone nearby can join. Muse Spark can draft it from your compass, and every typed or generated line is screened so nothing offensive gets through.
Meet at the table. The room starter’s phone lies on the table showing a QR code. Others scan it to join, and their phone becomes a QR too, so by design nobody is staring at a screen. Scans record a human meeting by user ID, not by name. It works for curious people without the app, through a quick onboarding.
After. A short check on how it went, a chance to tell the Hoolala! team what was good, bad or missing, then a celebration. A real connection grows five leaves.
Places can opt in. Owners can become partners, and printed posters (v6.5) invite people in.

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