Our story
Built inside the problem. Not around it.
HallHop started with students looking at a normal school day and asking a useful question: why does movement between classrooms still depend on paper and guesswork?
The beginning
Texas · 2025
A few lines of code became a different way to see the school day.
The first HallHop work focused on a Chrome extension that could understand a student’s schedule and make checking out and returning straightforward.
That led to a larger idea: connect the student moment, the teacher decision, and the school-wide view without turning movement into surveillance.
What has stayed true
Technology should make a school feel more understandable—not more watched.
Student perspective
Build with the reality of the people moving through the system.
Teacher attention
Measure success partly by how little the workflow interrupts instruction.
Responsible context
Give authorized people useful information with clear boundaries around it.
The founding team
Students building for schools.
Founder · Lead developer
Varun Bhadurgatte Nagaraj
Started HallHop after noticing how much hallway movement depended on paper, memory, and guesswork. Leads the product and technical direction.
Co-founder · Developer
Rithul Bhat
Helped shape the teacher-side experience, with an emphasis on reliable pass decisions and practical classroom workflows.
Co-founder · Outreach
Maanya Shekar
Contributed to the project’s early structure, documentation, and outreach to the school community.
Still building
The work now.
Teacher command
Refining the fastest daily decisions
Pattern review
Keeping signals explainable and human-reviewed
Schedule intelligence
Strengthening Home Access Center context
Browser experience
Making the student flow feel nearly invisible
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