Got an idea?
We'll get it launched.

Yes. The code repository is created under your GitHub account on day one. The domain is registered in your name. The server is rented to your account. If you cancel, you walk away with all of it. No obfuscation, no licensing tricks, no hostage situations.

Cancel any time. We hand over the server keys, you keep the GitHub repo, the domain stays in your name, and your customers' data is yours. You can keep running everything yourself afterwards for roughly £10–15/month total (a small server, the domain renewal, transactional email). No exit fee, no data extraction charges.

Hatchik is built for you. The product owners we have in mind are lawyers, restaurateurs, consultants, designers — people with a clear app idea but no infrastructure background. You'll drive an AI helper (Claude, Cursor or similar) to build the actual features, and we make sure that experience is safe — your AI can't accidentally break things, and you stay in charge of what launches. If you've never used an AI coding tool before, we walk you through it after signup.

£79 one-time when you launch (covers your domain, hosting account, mailboxes, and full configuration — done in minutes). Then £9/month while you're getting your first users. After your 15th sign-up the monthly graduates to £24 — because by then you've got traction. You'll get an email a month before the change. The free Sandbox stays free forever; you only start paying when you want a real domain.

Prices on this page are shown in GBP for reference, but checkout auto-detects your country and shows you the equivalent in your local currency — USD, EUR, AUD, INR, BRL, AED and 25+ others. VAT (UK / EU), GST (Australia / India / Singapore), US state sales tax, and other local taxes are calculated and added automatically at checkout, with a proper tax invoice emailed to you. Customers in lower-income regions get an automatic purchasing-power discount applied. You never have to work out what the right amount is — your local price, with your local tax, in your local currency.

Hatchik uses Paddle as our Merchant of Record — the same model SaaS products like Notion Cal, RevenueCat and Linear use. Paddle is the legal seller, which means they handle all the boring tax compliance globally so we don't pass that cost (or complexity) on to you. The practical effect: your bank statement will read "Paddle.com Market Ltd · Hatchik". Your subscription, login, app, and support all stay with Hatchik — only the billing entity differs. Refunds run through Paddle and usually land within 5–10 days.

Hatchik works equally well whether you're selling to paying customers, building an internal tool for your team, running a community project, or just making the thing you've always wanted to exist. Stripe payments are wired in but optional — flip them on if you ever want to charge, leave them off if you don't. The Stage 2 graduation at 15 sign-ups is based on real people using your app, not on revenue, so the pricing works the same way whether you're monetising or not.

No — and this one is non-negotiable. We build the iOS and Android shells from your code, ready to submit. You handle the submission itself, because the apps live on your store accounts under your legal identity. That means you'll need an Apple Developer Program account (~£99/year) and a Google Play Console account (~£25 one-time), and you're responsible for the listing metadata (description, screenshots, keywords, age rating), compliance with each store's review guidelines, privacy declarations (App Tracking Transparency, the Data Safety form), staged rollouts, and responding to review feedback. We're happy to advise on common rejection reasons and what each store looks for, but we don't press submit on your behalf. See §5.3 of our product spec for the full list.

Tiered by environment, so you pay for protection where it matters. Your preview and dev branches get nightly backups with 7-day retention. The optional test environment (if you add one) gets weekly backups with 2-week retention. Production gets nightly with 14-day retention on Launch, extended to 30 days on Growth. One-click restore from any snapshot via the Hatchik dashboard. You can trigger an on-demand backup any time you're about to do something risky. Everything is encrypted at rest with your own key and stored off-site (Backblaze B2), in the same region as your server.

Yes. Paste a small config block into Claude / Cursor / Windsurf (we give you the instructions for your specific tool at hatchik.com/install), then chat: "I want to build X." Your AI walks you through naming, domain availability, region, and shows you the price — all in chat. The only moment you leave is to pay, because we will never take payment information through chat. A secure checkout opens in your browser, you confirm, you're back. Same outcome as the website wizard: your app on your domain, your code in your GitHub.

Right now: an email from a real human (the founder) within the hour, and your stack live within 24 hours. We're hand-onboarding the first cohort while we finish the self-serve wizard you can see in the demo above — that ships in the next few weeks, after which the whole flow is under 10 minutes from "I have an idea" to "my app is live on my own domain." You get the same product either way; only the speed of provisioning differs while we're warming up.

We designed for that risk. Your AI can read most things safely (deploy status, error logs, the to-do list) — those don't change anything. But every action that costs money, changes your live app, or could affect customer data requires a one-time confirmation in your browser. Your AI can ask; you click. This stops malicious instructions hidden in code from tricking your AI into something destructive. Defence in depth, with you in the loop on anything that matters.

You pick at signup. We offer Hetzner Cloud servers in Germany (Falkenstein / Nuremberg), Finland (Helsinki), US East (Ashburn), US West (Hillsboro), and Singapore — 5 regions across 3 continents. Your server is provisioned in your name, your backups go to an off-site location in the same region, and an edge network sits in front to keep pages fast worldwide. If you have specific rules to meet (GDPR for EU customers, HIPAA for US healthcare), pick the matching region and we'll send you the paperwork.

Many apps in 2026 use AI to generate text, summarise content, chat with users, or recommend things at runtime — that's different from the AI that helps you write the code (your Cursor or Claude subscription handles that). Hatchik pre-wires integrations with Claude, GPT, Gemini and open-source models, and gives you two ways to pay for the usage: bring your own provider key (you get billed by the provider directly, no Hatchik involvement), or route through us for one bill, an included token allowance, and built-in cost caps. Either way, switching between providers is a config change, not a rewrite. If your app doesn't use AI internally, ignore it — it's optional.

Yes. By default that's exactly how it works — you put your Anthropic, OpenAI, or OpenRouter key into your app's .env file and the provider bills you directly. No Hatchik involvement, no margin on top, no lock-in. Hatchik's optional passthrough (one bill, included token allowance, vendor switching without code changes, cost caps) is a convenience for customers who want unified billing — it's not a requirement. You can switch between BYO and passthrough at any time, and the substrate code reads from environment variables that work with either path.

When you sign up, we create a clean to-do list pre-populated with about twenty starter tasks based on what you described you wanted to build. As your AI assistant works on features, it updates each task (started, launched, ready to test). You see progress at a glance, can re-order priorities, add new ideas, leave comments. We use Linear (free for solo founders) under the hood, but you're free to use Notion, Trello, a notebook, or nothing at all — the list is there to help you and your AI stay organised, not to lock you in.

No — and that's deliberate. We give you the foundation: hosting, domain, payments, mail, mobile builds, security. The actual product (the features your customers pay for) you build with your AI helper, or by hand, or by hiring someone. We're the boring infrastructure underneath, not the architect. If you want an AI tool to build your whole app from a prompt, look at Lovable or Bolt — they're great for prototypes but tend to hit a wall when you need real business plumbing. Hatchik is what's underneath after that.

A single server comfortably runs an app with several thousand paying users — we've stress-tested. When you need more, the underlying setup is plain enough that moving to a bigger server (or splitting across several) takes hours, not weeks. At that point you've probably hired your first developer; we'll help them with the handover.