Beta · by invitation
A game console, a streaming box, and a place for the AI you already use to entertain the room. Every phone is a controller. Claude, Codex or Grok can make games, songs and films, run the room, and play along.
BETA
Homie is early. This is the list, and nothing on it is a plan.
Working
Install Homie on your Mac and follow its native Setup. Open Homie TV, then scan its QR with your phone. Owner settings use a separate pairing code shown on the TV. Guests join in their browser and install nothing.
Working
Ask on your phone. Claude, Codex or Grok writes the game on this box, checks it, and puts it on the television. On a real box that took about five minutes. They have made songs and videos too, and they can play along.
Working
Every shared game gets a page on this site. Some play in your browser; others run on Homie, with phones as controllers. Each page tells you how to play. 27 shared games are on the shelf. See the games.
Homie sells no intelligence. You bring Claude, Codex or Grok. They create, control the room, and play. You can enjoy existing games and media without an AI. Making something new needs one. What it costs.
Why it exists
A grid of rectangles that launch other companies’ apps. It knows nothing about you except what you watched, nothing about the room, and it can only ever fetch, never make. And it spends most of its life as the largest black mirror in the house, doing nothing.
Homie is what home entertainment looks like if you design it now, with a renderer and a model in the same box. The television is never off: it is a hearth until somebody asks for something. Phones are on the network, so it knows who is on the couch. Say “make us one about the dog” and the room is playing it minutes later, badly, while everyone laughs.
Most of the games it makes should be thrown away. That is not failure, it is the format: a four-minute joke built for the six people in the room tonight, about something that happened at dinner. Played twice, never again, perfect.
Play
A guest scans the square on the television. No app, no account, nothing installed, nothing left behind. Native Setup runs on the Mac. Owner settings on a phone use a separate pairing code shown on the TV.
Make
Ask on your phone. The box writes the game with the AI you bring, checks its own work so a broken one never reaches the screen, and puts it on. It has made songs and videos the same way. On a real box, about five minutes.
Watch and listen
It opens the streaming apps you already pay for, and the music. A game a house shares gets a page on this site and plays in a browser, so a friend’s living room can have it tonight.
Talk
Not a voice assistant that sets timers. Something in the room that plays with you, ribs you, runs the game, and remembers that Friday is game night. A new outlet for the AI you already have, with other people, on the big screen.
Who makes it
Homie is built by one person in a living room, with the models it is built for sitting beside him. The Homie on that television has written most of the games on this site, and its own tools, and some of its own code. The bar it is held to is the one a friend would use: would they keep it plugged in?
It is judged against Netflix, Steam, Roblox, a PlayStation and Twitch, not against a chat window. It is a way to have fun with AI instead of asking a speaker for the weather.
What it is not
Where it runs
A Mac mini, or any Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 15 or newer, plugged into a television, on the house wifi. Homie does not ship a box; it is the software on yours. The Raspberry Pi 5 is next, and Windows and Linux are planned after that. What you need.
How to reach us
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