Early pilot — web app live, Android APK for testers

Member-Id + password · Web app · Android pilot

Hang Out. Hang Around.

Somewhere you should be at.

Casual Groups, real Connections, and a home page built around Status, Search, and who's around. Reach people through the HOHA Message System or a 1-on-1 room — text, voice, video or screen share. No feeds. No follower counts. Just your people.

Had the Android pilot before 0.3.0? Uninstall it first, then sign back in with your Member-Id and password.

Member-Id + password Accounts & content stored in India No follower counts, ever

The anti-doomscroll app

Social media made us lonelier.

We scroll past a thousand people and talk to none of them. HOHA throws that out. No infinite feed to perform for. No metrics to chase. Just the people you actually know — and a room that's always open.

The old way

  • Endless feeds engineered to keep you scrolling
  • Likes, followers & vanity metrics
  • "Are you free for a call?" — then waiting
  • Performing for strangers, lonely anyway

The HOHA way

  • See who's around right now — and just drop in
  • Zero metrics. No likes, no followers, no clout
  • Always-open Groups. Rooms when you want to talk
  • Just your people. Real presence, real talk

After Sign-in

Your home page, all in one place.

After Sign-in, Home is a stack of five accordion boxes — Status, Search, Notifications, Connections and Groups — so you set availability, find Members, and jump into the right circle without hunting through menus. The HOHA Message System sits alongside them, one tap from the menu.

The web app runs in the browser on a laptop, tablet or phone, and installs as a PWA. The Android build is a pilot APK, not a Play Store release, and there is no iOS release yet. Same Member-Id and password everywhere, and you can link a second device the way WhatsApp does.

Two products, one app

HOHA Message System

Internal messages addressed by Member-Id — Inbox, Outbox and Sent, like a basic mail client. Member-to-Member, and a HOHA-Admin mailbox for support.

  • Text and recorded voice mail
  • Up to five attachments, 2 MB each
  • Stays inside HOHA — no email or SMS is sent

1-on-1 & Groups

Conversations in Rooms — a chat thread alongside voice, video and screen share, running on ConnectyCube. Your groups and rooms are always one tap away.

  • Permanent rooms stay open; temporary ones close
  • See who's around before you speak
  • Group Admins set who may join

Groups & rooms

Groups where you can see who's around.

Anyone can start a Group for their batch, office or club, and its Group Admins decide who may join — by school, college, company or family. Rooms hold the conversation: permanent rooms stay open, temporary ones close when you're done. Presence dots show who's online, talking, or just wandered in.

See who's around right now

Live presence dots show exactly who's online and in the room — before you say a word.

Always-open Groups

Create a Group, then open a Temporary or Permanent Room when you want to talk. The circle stays.

Voice, video & screen share

You join muted — unmute when you want to talk. Speaker rings pulse so you always know who's mid-sentence.

One tap to drop in

See who's around in a Group, then open a room or start a 1-on-1. No scheduling.

HOHA Message System

Messages by Member-Id.

Send to any Member if you know their Member-Id. Inbox, Outbox and Sent behave like familiar mail folders inside HOHA — alongside, not instead of, real-time 1-on-1 chat. Everything stays inside HOHA: nothing is emailed or texted out.

Inbox & Outbox
Member-to-Member
HOHA-Admin
Voice mail
Attachments (2 MB each)
Sent & folders

HOHA sends no email or SMS notifications today. The Android app can push a notification; on the web you'll see new messages when you open HOHA.

1-on-1

Conversation that keeps up.

When you're in a Room or chatting directly, HOHA behaves like the messenger you already know — replies, voice notes, media, polls — without collapsing Message and 1-on-1 into one inbox.

Text & emoji
Reactions
Reply & forward
Voice notes
Photos & docs
Location
Contact share
Polls
Broadcast
Disappearing
View-once
Read receipts
Mute
Archive
Pin
Search

Text, replies, polls, voice notes, media and pinning are in the web app too. The rest of this list — reactions, forwarding, location, contact cards, broadcast, disappearing and view-once media, read receipts, mute and archive — is in the Android pilot app today.

Calls

Voice & video, one tap away.

When you want to go one-to-one, a real call is right there — voice, video, or your screen, on the web app and in the Android pilot alike. Every call is logged in your call history and marked in the chat thread.

1:1 voice calls

Ring anyone you're connected to. Voice runs over ConnectyCube, the same service that carries Group rooms.

Video & screen share

Switch to video any time, or share your screen when it's easier to show than to tell.

M
Meera Incoming · 12:30
K
Kabir Video · yesterday
D
Dev Missed · Mon

People

Connections with Closeness Score.

Request a Connection, set a Closeness Score from 1 to 5, and control who can discover you. Search results show Member-Id, availability, and how close you are — before you message or start a 1-on-1. The score is yours alone: each of you sets your own.

M
Mom
Closeness 5
S
Sana
Closeness 5
K
Kabir
Closeness 3
D
Dadi
Closeness 4
A
Aryan
Closeness 2

Privacy & trust

Built to be trusted.

No feed means no algorithm mining your attention. We keep the model dead simple: your circles, your data, your control.

Member-Id and password

Sign in with your Member-Id and password. A one-time code confirms your mobile and email at sign-up, and resets a forgotten password — never everyday sign-in.

Block & report

One tap to block a Member or report abuse. Reports are triaged and land with HOHA admins for review.

Export & deletion

Export your data and delete your account from the Android app's Settings, or ask us by email — see Delete your account. The web app doesn't carry those buttons yet.

No vanity metrics

No likes, no follower counts, no public profiles to game. Just genuine presence.

Your account and content stay in India

HOHA is built India-first. Your account and the content HOHA stores live on Google Cloud in Mumbai (asia-south1). Live chat and calls run through ConnectyCube, which may process them outside India — the Privacy Policy spells out exactly what goes where.

Made for your circles

A Group for everyone you know.

Wherever people share something in common, HOHA gives them a place to just be — together.

Colleges

Batches, hostels, clubs & societies. The campus group chat that's actually alive.

Companies

Teams & departments with a watercooler that follows them home. Presence, not pings.

Families

The room where home always is. Drop in on Mom, Dad & cousins whenever you're around.

Friend circles

Your crew, your inside jokes, your weekend plans — in a room that never goes quiet.

Open pilot · bring your people

There's somewhere you should be at.

Create a Member-Id and password, then open the web app in your browser — or side-load the Android pilot build.

Installable PWA · Android pilot APK v0.3.0 · not on the Play Store or the App Store
Had the Android pilot before 0.3.0? Uninstall it first: this build is signed with HOHA's release key, so Android won't install it over the old one. Uninstalling signs you out and clears what's saved only on that phone (starred messages, broadcast lists, chat settings). Your chats and account stay.