Hoot Hall · AI, apps and the web
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Hoot Hall is a technology studio working at the frontier of AI, apps and the web. We look ahead to where technology is going, then build it for the people who matter most: families, teams and friends.
The Hall · Products
Many rooms, one roof.
Apps, games, tools and stories. Each one is its own room under the Hoot Hall roof, and new rooms keep opening.


Games New
Clash Yard
クラッシュヤード
A fantasy RPG where towns settle disputes with 5-on-5 flag football instead of war. Build a team from a small island village and call plays with one finger.
- iOS
- iPadOS
- Android coming soon
hoothall.com/
clashyard 
Community
Minerva MEET
ミネルヴァ・ミート
A private, invite-only app for small real-world groups like families, teams, clubs and PTAs. Share albums, plan events, run polls and chat in one place.
- iOS
- Android
- Web
minervameet.com

AI
Maat Scan
マアト・スキャン
Scores a portrait photo from 0 to 100 for how natural it looks, compared with AI-generated or heavily edited images. A statistical reference, not a verdict.
- Web
- iOS
- Android
maatscan.com

Clocks
Sports Clock Manager
Game clocks for referees, coaches and teams that follow each sport, from basketball, soccer and futsal to flag football, American football, handball and rugby.
- iOS
- iPadOS
- Android
hoothall.com/
sportsclockmanager 
Clocks
TurnClock
ターンクロック
A turn timer for board and party games. Voice countdowns keep the pace, one tap passes the turn, and the display reads from one, two or four sides of the table.
- iOS
- Android
hoothall.com/
turnclock 
Stories
Anokoro Hou
あのころ年表
A Japanese pop-culture timeline from 1971 to 2020 in 14 categories, curated by Hou, an owl figurine on a Showa-era living-room shelf. The site is in Japanese.
- Web
nenpyo.hoothall.com

Stories
AI in Dystopia
アイのあるミライ
A near-future four-panel comic set in Japan, where AI and robots are everyday infrastructure. It follows the six members of the Mirai family, with new episodes most Fridays. The comic is in Japanese.
- Web
- note
- X
ai.hoothall.com
Vision
What we see coming.
Every product we ship is a bet on where AI and technology are heading. These are the bets we're making now.
Now · AI
Trust needs verification
Generative AI can produce any image. Maat Scan combines vision-language models with image forensics to score how real a portrait looks.
Maat ScanNow · Privacy
Private by architecture
The next networks are small, invite-only, and keep your data out of AI training. Minerva MEET is built that way from the database up.
Minerva MEETNext · Infrastructure
Software at the edge
Apps and sites served from hundreds of cities at once, with no server to break into. This site already runs that way.
How we buildAhead · Society
AI as everyday infrastructure
We're already designing for the day AI sits at every table. Our weekly comic follows a family already living with it.
AI in Dystopia
AI will be everywhere. We build so people stay at the center.
Mission
An owl sees clearly in the dark. A hall is where people gather.
Hoot Hall builds in that spirit: we look ahead into what others can't see yet, and we build for the people gathered close. Everything we make is for a small group who already care about each other, and each product tries to earn that trust: no ads in the way, no gacha, no selling what you share.
Close circles
Made for the few who matter, not the crowd: families, teams, clubs, and friends at the table.
Time, kept
Clocks you can trust in the final seconds, and timelines that bring the old days back.
Honest by design
Clear about what's real, careful with what you share, and free of tricks that keep you tapping.
How we build
From AI models to the edge of the network.
AI
Vision models, image forensics and generative pipelines, used where they help people.
- Python
- Vision-language models
Mobile apps
iOS, iPadOS and Android apps with subscriptions, offline play and five languages.
- Flutter
- Swift
- In-app purchase
Web
Fast bilingual sites and web apps that run at the edge, like this one.
- Astro
- Next.js
- TypeScript
Games and stories
Original worlds, characters and weekly serials, from RPGs to four-panel comics.
- Game design
- Worldbuilding
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