The platform
Hatchable is a course plus tools to build what the course asks for. See the actual screens, and what each of the four user types can and cannot see.
All screenshots below are from the running app. Sample content shown is from Jenny, one of three example students.
The course teaches building a business. The software makes sure what is presented actually exists.
What they learned is where the next one starts — the report feeds back to the people who backed them.
Modules 1 to 9
Every lesson has its own page. A video, the written version underneath, and for assignments three worked examples from Aisha, Jacob and Jenny in 8 of the 9 modules (Module 9's come from one worked example instead) 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.
Built up from module 3 to module 8
The course teaches the Lean Canvas. The software keeps it. Each box links to the assignment that fills it, and student answers sit underneath. It builds over months, not in one sitting.
After the pitch is shared
The pitch page sits behind a private link. It 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.
Someone backs the student for $25. We write it down. The money moves directly between them. Student ticks it off when it arrives. Pledges are encouragement, not investment.
Module 7 onward
A private shop page. Customers pick items and reserve them. No card, no checkout. They pay the student in person at pickup, like a school fair. That is why a teen can run this without an adult holding the account.
Module 8 final assignment
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. Open a student to see their work module by module with a place to reply. No grades, no gradebook — deliberate for clubs and classrooms.
One account type covers teachers, parents, and camp leaders.
Worth knowing before you plan around it.
Not a gap: no money passes through us. That is why a student under 18 can run a shop here. See the page for parents for details.
Modules 1 to 8 are published in full, so you can read every lesson before making an account.
