Hacker houses in France

SOTI is straightforward on purpose. A selected group moves into one house for seven days. The middle of the day is for real work. Meals, walks, demos and a few carefully chosen rooms in the host city sit around that work, not on top of it.

Residents do not join to pause their company. Calls still happen. Deadlines still exist. Laptops stay open. The difference is who is around you while you do it — and the fact that you will see those people again at breakfast, not only in a Slack follow-up that never comes.

Accepted members receive a pre-house operating pack with cohort context, useful links, house norms and a draft agenda. The week should start with context, not with a cold room.

If you want the category definition first, read what is a hacker house. If you want the reasoning behind the length, read why live together for one week while building.

French founders, especially around Paris, already have events, meetups and long programs they can apply to. What is rarer is a short, selective house that does not ask you to relocate or to enter a curriculum.

A one-week format respects that. It is close enough, in spirit, to how people already work: intense, time-boxed, and built around the project you came with. You do not need to put the company on hold. You need a sharper room for a short stretch, then you go back to your own stack with better intros and clearer feedback.

Paris already appears in search results for this phrase, because other houses use it there. That is useful market context. It does not make those houses a SOTI partner, and it does not mean SOTI has announced a Paris edition. This page will not invent one.

SOTI has run a public week in Barcelona, which is a practical hop from France, and a public San Francisco edition for a European builder cohort. Those are the editions you can read about today. Houses move. The format stays.

Paris already has several places that use this language. They are useful context, not SOTI partners, and not a Paris edition SOTI has announced.

HackerHouse.world is a coliving network with live official listings in Paris and Bordeaux, starting at 520€ a month in Bordeaux and 600€ a month for a shared room at the Paris HQ.

Humiris Builder House is a Paris coliving and coworking house for founders, engineers and creators. Applications are open and reviewed personally; the official page does not publish a price.

Pareto House is a Paris hacker house for a small group of founders, described as three or more months, renewable. Applications for the next cohort are open on the official site.

Flatmates by STATION F is STATION F's entrepreneur coliving, with official pricing from 499€ a month, all included. It is housing next to a campus, not a one-week house.

A SOTI house is still the shorter format: one week, your own work, a selected group. When an edition is public, it will be on this site.

A hackathon is not a hacker house. If the result is a weekend sprint with a brief, a jury and a prize, that is a different intention. SOTI is a week of living and working on your own thing.

A months-long residency is not a SOTI house either. Some programs ask you to move for a season. SOTI compresses the relationship-building into one week and leaves the work as yours. The longer comparison lives in what is a founder residency and in how curated founder communities work.

SOTI House is also not the cybersecurity company at hacker.house, and not SOTI Inc. at soti.net. We are an independent community project at soti.house.

A strong week uses the city without being swallowed by it. Depending on the edition, that can mean dinners, office visits or local builder rooms. People then return to the same home base, which is what turns an outside conversation into shared context. The house is the product's quiet part: a calm base, a small selected group, and enough unstructured time for the useful unexpected conversations to happen.

Who tends to fit is not a job title. Founders are central to many houses, but operators, technical builders, researchers, creators and investors can all be a strong fit when they bring agency, taste and generosity. The common thread is momentum, plus a willingness to make the room better for other people too.

For the rest of the map, see hacker houses in Europe.

If this is your kind of week, request a spot in a SOTI house. Requesting a spot is not acceptance. Each house is selective because the value depends on who is in it.