About The Hatchery

Our Mission

To enjoy building a business that all stakeholders can be proud of and rewarded by.

Our Core

We are all people passionate about building software that is beautiful...not just software that looks beautiful mind you, but software that functions beautifully too.

Our Inspiration

The Company Board and all our team members subscribe to the 37Signals 'Getting Real' processes for software development (with only a few minor tweaks to suit the way in which we do business). We are self-proclaimed evangelists for the 37Signals products and philosophies - not because we have anything to gain by being 'those' people but because we believe the world doesn't have enough companies with simple and yet very profound beliefs who make a real difference to everyone they do business with.

We are working hard to build our business into something we hope you may also come to evangelise.

Getting Involved

The Hatchery works because of the quality of the people we are able to attract and retain. We believe that the best developers spend most of their time building things. They often hold down steady jobs but spend their weekends and spare time playing with new ideas and technologies.

Over the years we have seen many brilliant but only partially completed applications developed by individuals and small groups in their spare time. Those products seldom offer a tangible and measurable return on the investment of time that the developers put in to creating them. This is most often because the developers either don't have the time to turn the idea or product into a real business or they don't have the complementary skills to do so e.g. marketing & sales expertise or financial management. The Hatchery is all about seeing those products and their developers succeed.

If you are a developer or engineer and want to work on some very exciting and interesting products in your spare time with the promise of owning shares in that product and it's success, please email
members[at]thehatchery.co.uk

We are also interested in 'ideas people'. You don't have to be a software developer or engineer to have a great technology idea and we would like to help you turn that idea into a successful product. We won't cost you a penny, so for more information email info[at]thehatchery.co.uk and we will be in touch.