About
We built a tool that we needed.
Hatchly is not a product someone thought up for a market. It is a thirteen-year spreadsheet that got tired of being a spreadsheet.
One person, one spreadsheet, thirteen years.
Before it was software, it was a spreadsheet kept by hand. One tab per year. One row per payment. Venue checks, Venmo, direct deposits, cash. A macro filed the entries and refreshed a payer-by-month pivot table.
That spreadsheet worked. It answered the questions nothing else would answer: what came in this year, who the biggest client was, whether this year beat last year. What it cost was an afternoon, every month, forever.
Hatchly keeps the structure and removes the typing. The mental model is the spreadsheet. The interaction is not.
One test every feature has to pass.
A feature earns its place only if it tells a 1099 worker something about their money that nothing else does. That is the whole filter, and it is why Hatchly is not an expense tracker, an invoicing tool, or a receipt scanner. Those exist. They are fine. They are not this.
Money is never approximate.
Every amount is stored to the cent as a whole number, and rounded only when it is put on screen. Nothing drifts, nothing accumulates error, and a total is a total.
A payment has one date.
The day it arrived. Months, quarters and years are worked out from it every time they are needed, so no two views of your year can disagree with each other.
Every other tool is built to find your deductions.
Hatchly is built to show your income.
Early, and saying so.
Hatchly is young. It is being used and shaped by a small number of people rather than launched at a large number of them. That is deliberate, and it means two things worth saying out loud.
The first is that the product will change while you are using it. The second is that the person who makes it reads what you send and can act on it the same week. Both of those stop being true at scale, so they are worth using while they are true.
Your data is yours the entire time. Everything you put in comes back out as a spreadsheet, on demand, without asking anyone. Leaving is a button, not a support ticket.
What Hatchly does not do.
It does not file your taxes, run payroll, keep double-entry books, send invoices, hold or move your money, or give you advice. It has no connection to any bank, any institution, or any part of the IRS.
Hatchly does not replace a full-service firm.
It tells you when you are ready for one.