Hatchable is a course and a set of tools for the thing the course asks students to build. This page shows the actual screens, in the order a student meets them, and sets out what each of the four kinds of person can and cannot see.
Every image below is a screenshot of the running application. The venture in them is Jenny's, one of the three worked-example students the course uses, so the words are sample content rather than a real child's work.
The course was already a build-a-business path that ends in a presentation. The software exists so the thing being presented actually exists somewhere.
Every lesson has its own page. A video, the written version underneath, and for assignments three worked examples from Aisha, Jacob and Jenny so a student can see three different ways of answering before writing their own. Quizzes mark themselves and explain every option, including the ones nobody picked.
The course teaches the Lean Canvas and then asks, in module 8, for a completed one. So the software keeps it. Each box is attached to the assignment that produces it, and a student's own submitted answer sits underneath the box, ready to carry across. It fills in over months rather than in one sitting.
The same canvas, printable on one page, and a pitch page behind a private link. The link is unguessable, is not listed anywhere, and is marked so search engines skip it. A student can switch sharing off or generate a new link, which immediately breaks every link they already sent.
Somebody watches the pitch and says they are in for $25. Hatchable writes that down and nothing else. The money moves the way that family already moves money, and the student ticks it off when it arrives. A pledge is encouragement, not an investment, and nobody who backs a student gets a share of anything.
A shop page, also behind a private link. Customers choose what they want and reserve it. There is no card and no checkout anywhere in this flow. They pay the student in person when they collect, which is how a school fair has always worked, and is the reason a fifteen year old can run this without an adult holding the account.
Three questions. What happened, what did you learn, what next. The numbers are already filled in because the software knows them. Once the student publishes it, everyone still holding the pitch link sees it at the top of the page, above the ask. A project that did not work is a normal thing to have to write about.
Money in is assembled by the software from pledges the student marked received and orders they marked collected. The only thing they type is what they spent. It works out the difference, including when the difference is negative, which it usually is at the start, and how many more of each thing they would need to sell to break even.
Backers can see a summary of this by default. The student can switch that off.
The second pair matters more than it looks. Backers and customers arrive through a link a young person sent them, so what they can reach is deliberately narrow.
12 and up
What they cannot do. Cannot see another student's work, and cannot see anything a teacher writes about anyone else.
One account type covers all three
What they cannot do. Cannot see another teacher's students. There is no school-wide view, because we have not built one.
Usually family, or someone local
What they cannot do. Never enters a card, because there is nowhere to. Cannot find any other student, because pitch pages are not listed and do not link to each other.
Whoever the student sells to
What they cannot do. Never enters a card either. No payment goes through Hatchable at any point, so there is nothing to refund and no funds held.
Which lesson each person finished and when, rather than a single percentage. Open a student and you get their work, module by module, with somewhere to write back. There is no mark and no gradebook on assignments, which is the right shape for a club and a deliberate choice for a classroom.
One account type covers teachers, parents and camp leaders. The wording says teacher in a few places, which we know is not quite right for the other two.
Worth knowing before you plan around it.
The one that is not a gap: no money passes through Hatchable, and that is on purpose. It is why a student under 18 can run a shop here when they could not open a merchant account anywhere else. The page for parents goes through exactly how that works.
Modules 1 to 8 are published in full, so you can read every lesson before making an account.