About Us

Hey there — I'm Chris, founder of Hatchbox.

Hatchbox started because I wanted to make it easy to keep all your Rails apps running for cheap. I can't spend $50+/mo to run a side project, not to mention many side projects (and I have a lot!). It would be fine to run them on my own servers, but I just don't have the time to set everything up. So I decided to build something to solve that problem.

Hatchbox is way for you to deploy Rails apps to your own servers at places like Hetzner, DigitalOcean, AWS, etc as easily as Heroku. We'll take care of installing Ruby, Caddy, PostgreSQL, Redis and more and even manage environment variables and all the other little details for you.

It's a flat monthly fee per server and you can deploy as many apps as you want! Whether you want to deploy Rails for your small business or side projects, you don't have to pay for every little add-on like other hosting providers charge.

Since Hatchbox configures your own servers, you have full access to them to install whatever you want in addition to what Hatchbox supports. Scaling up your servers is as easy as going into your DigitalOcean account and resizing your server.

Now, Hatchbox isn't designed to replace Heroku or anything like that. If you want truly hands-off, you'll have to pay for Heroku or something similar. If you want something cheap and easy to use, but don't mind running your own servers, then Hatchbox will hopefully be perfect for you.