Hatchik help → What is Hatchik?
What is Hatchik?
Hatchik hosts the websites and apps you build by talking to Claude. You describe what you want, Claude builds it and publishes it to Hatchik, and Hatchik runs it on the internet with a web address, a database and a certificate.
You do not manage servers. You do not install anything. Most people never open the dashboard.
What you get.
A website is free. Pages, images, text — anything that does not need to remember things. Free with no time limit and no card.
An app is $29 a month, or $290 for a year. An app is a website that remembers things: accounts, bookings, orders, saved records. It comes with its own Postgres database.
Each project is billed on its own. Three websites and one app is $29 a month.
Every project, free or paid, gets:
- a locked draft that you open from your project page, and nobody else can. An app's draft is a permanent address,
dev.<name>.hatchik.com. A free website's is a preview link Claude gives you each time it publishes a draft, good for 24 hours — there is nodev.address for a website. See the "Draft and live" page. - a live site at
<name>.hatchik.com - your own web address, if you own one, at no extra cost
- HTTPS, issued and renewed for you
- undo, back through the last 10 versions you published
- a full download of everything, any time
What Hatchik does not do.
It does not write your app. Claude does that. Hatchik gives Claude the tools to publish, look at logs, undo, and set up domains.
Help comes through your AI. Claude can see your project, read the error and publish the fix, working from the same documentation you are reading.
It does not hold your work hostage. You can download every file, your whole database and your settings whenever you like, and take them somewhere else. The download includes a plain-English guide to running it elsewhere.
It does not handle your customers' payments. If your app takes money, Claude wires up Stripe or Paddle in your name, and the money goes to you.
Where things live.
- Your projects:
https://app.hatchik.com - Your account, billing and receipts:
https://app.hatchik.com/account - Help, readable without signing in:
https://app.hatchik.com/help - Getting back in when you cannot sign in:
https://app.hatchik.com/account/recover
The same page as plain text, for an AI or anything else that prefers it: /docs/what-hatchik-is.md