How it works
From the room down to the piece.
A HOP gallery nests three containers — rooms hold walls, walls hold pieces. What follows is how each one works, and how to fill your first room with what you already have.
Rooms
A room is where a subject lives.
The room is the top-level container — a single theme, a series, a chapter of the collection. Each one holds an ordered set of walls, and nothing else competes for the visitor's attention. You make as many rooms as the collection asks for.
Walls
A wall is one horizontal run.
Inside a room, a wall is a single surface — a left-to-right sequence the visitor moves along at their own pace. Order is meaning here: what comes first, what sits beside what, where the run resolves. Drag to rearrange, and the wall remembers.
Pieces
A piece is one thing, held well.
Images and video, but also text, quotations, and live-coded artworks — a piece is the atomic unit of a collection. Each carries its own record: title, year, medium, and, when you want it, provenance kept just for you.
Start with what you have
Your first room populates itself.
Connect an iCloud shared album, an Ethereum or Tezos wallet, or drag a folder from your desktop — HOP reads what is there and builds the room around it, one wall per folder, metadata pre-filled where it exists. You arrive at something already yours, ready to arrange.
As it grows
HOP galleries grow with you.
Three ideas are enough to begin. What follows is what a collection asks for once it has been kept a while — and none of it is in the way until you want it.
Everything comes in whole
Drag a folder of folders and each one hangs itself as a wall. Apple Photos, Dropbox, Drive, and Ethereum, Tezos or Solana wallets all arrive with what they know about themselves — free on every plan.
A record for every piece
Each piece is registered on arrival with an accession number, a content fingerprint and a timestamp. Add provenance, condition and value as you learn them, and decide field by field what a visitor sees.
Doors you control
A room can be public, private, or open to named people. Share links can carry a password and an expiry, and you can see who has been visiting without a tracker following them home.
Your name on it
Bring your own domain and the gallery lives at your address. Room themes change how the work is framed, and a voice note lets you walk someone through the room in person.
A catalog you can hand over
Export a room as a PDF catalog that reads like a real one — for a curator, an insurer, or an estate. Everything in HOP is exportable, on every plan.
Room for more than one of you
A Team account gives everyone a seat and a role, working one shared library, with an activity log recording who changed what.