Hacker house
A hacker house is a shared home where people building things live and work side by side. Instead of meeting for an hour at an event, residents share days: work blocks, meals, demos and the small repeated moments that turn strangers into trusted peers. SOTI runs the hacker house as a one-week format for founders, builders and operators who keep working on their own projects while living together.
A residency usually runs for weeks or months and often comes with a program. A hacker house is lighter: a temporary home base where residents bring their own work. SOTI keeps the residency's depth of relationships but compresses the format into one focused week.
A retreat optimizes for switching off: escape, rest, workshops. A hacker house optimizes for shipping: laptops open, calls still happen, deadlines still exist. The difference is who is around you while you do it.
Accelerators take equity and run fixed curriculums with batches and demo days. A hacker house takes nothing and teaches nothing by default: the value is proximity, honest feedback and introductions between people building real things.
A selected group moves into one house for seven days. Days are for real work; mornings and evenings bring shared meals, walks, demos and local rooms worth visiting. Before arrival, accepted members get an operating pack with cohort context, house norms and a draft agenda, so nobody cold-starts on day one.
SOTI houses move by edition. Past and upcoming editions include Barcelona and San Francisco, each designed around its local context, cohort and the rooms that can make that specific week useful.
Founders, builders and operators with momentum and generosity: people who bring energy to the room, care about craft, and want sharper context and warmer relationships around their existing work.
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FAQ
A hacker house is a shared living-and-working space where builders, founders and operators stay together for a period of time. Unlike an event, the value comes from repeated daily contact: work sessions, meals and conversations that compound.
One week. Short enough to fit around real work, long enough for trust, rhythm and useful collaboration to emerge.
No. The format is built around your own work: you keep building, take calls and ship, while the house adds feedback, intros and momentum around it.
No. You can request a spot, but acceptance depends on fit and capacity. The value of the house depends on the people in it.