Hatch, a consumer software innovator Co-founded by Darrin Massena and Mike Harrington, announced the official launch of their creative web development platform Hatch. With a focus on interactivity, animation, and physics functionality typically requiring programming expertise, Hatch was built to support tech-curious creators on the web.
Hatch provides simple tools and a dedicated web space to make unique websites, games, evites, portfolios, digital art, interactive stories, messaging, maps, and creative experiments, regardless of technical expertise. Registered Hatch users can create and publish pages to share publicly or keep projects private for sharing with friends and family.
Hatch Co-founder Darrin Massena said, “A webpage has the creative potential of a painter’s palette and the constructive power to solve a problem. At Hatch, we are removing the technical barriers of coding so that anyone can use a webpage as a limitless creative medium. Anyone can build a new connected experience for themselves, their business, or their community.”
“When an engineer wants a new interactive experience, they build it. But that power shouldn’t be limited to programmers alone,” said Hatch Co-founder Mike Harrington. “We built Hatch so any creator can carve out their own corner of the web without having to code it themselves. Unlike many no-code platforms, we don’t rely on grids or boxes, so our creators can drag, drop, trigger, and animate text or visual elements however and wherever they want.”
After a successful exit with their photo editing startup, Picnik, Harrington, and Massena came together again in 2021 with a vision of democratizing software creation. Self-funded with a growing bootstrapped team, the cofounders dedicated their resources to building the infrastructure and functionality required to support a community of web creators at scale.
Hatch offers free and paid versions of their publishing tools, including drag-and-drop kits, one-click interactive effects, responsive physics, dynamic gravity, and more.
