Jason Steinberg

hoontos - Where brands discover and launch strategic joint growth

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(BETA opening alongside Product Hunt launch) An invite-only network where brands discover, connect with and build alongside other brands -- Driven through AI-curated matches. Hoontos.io helps brands discover and launch strategic partnerships through AI-powered matching in a world where ad platforms are increasingly attempting to steal the control, push up pricing, and inject manufactured content to the masses

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BETA officially opening alongside our Product Hunt launch!

hoontos /ˈhuːn.toʊs/ β€” pronounced HOON-tohs β€” is a play on the Spanish word juntos, meaning together. The name reflects the entire premise of the platform: the most defensible way for modern brands to grow is alongside other brands, not in isolation.

Why we built this
The old playbook for emerging brands β€” pour budget into Meta, optimize creative, scale spend β€” is breaking down.

The opportunity: earned audiences
Every brand has spent years (and millions) building an audience that trusts it. That trust is a balance sheet asset that almost no one is leveraging strategically. When two complementary brands join forces β€” through a co-marketing moment, a product collab, a bundle, a giveaway, a content swap, or a shared event β€” each side gets to borrow the other's earned credibility. The result is acquisition that is cheaper, warmer, and more durable than anything a paid channel can deliver.

That's the whole game. Instead of renting attention from platforms, brands can trade it with peers who've already done the hard work of building an audience that listens.

What hoontos does
hoontos is an invite-only network where vetted brands discover the right collab partners, get AI-generated pitches tailored to both sides, and move from "we should work together" to a real, shipped collaboration without the usual friction of cold DMs and stalled email threads.