Hatcher Roadmap
This document outlines our strategic priorities for bringing the Hatcher IDE to market. Its mission is to evangelize our vision, build a dedicated following, and establish Hatcher as the definitive thought leader in the AI development era..
✅ Phase 0: The Foundation (Completed)
Objective: Build and validate the "luxury scaffolding"—the enterprise-grade architectural pillars required to support our ambitious vision.
Key Results:
- Status: Completed. We shipped a world-class foundation including our custom Git Engine, a Secure Storage Engine (with AES-256 vault), and a GPU-accelerated Professional Terminal.
- Key Outcome: Achieved ~90% test coverage and a robust, multi-platform CI/CD pipeline. This proves our commitment to the engineering excellence required for a mission-critical tool.
🟡 Phase 1: Validating the Core Value (In Progress)
Objective: Validate our core "Controlled Amplification" philosophy by delivering a focused and impressive experience within the Gen HAT.
Strategic Focus: Our entire team is dedicated to perfecting a single, "magical" workflow: Prompt -> Constitutional Validation -> Time Graph Review -> Commit.
Strategic Note: The successful completion of Phase 1 will culminate in our application to Y Combinator. Our goal is to present a validated MVP, a strong design partner testimonial, and a clear vision for market leadership.
Key Results:
[In Progress]End-to-End Generative Workflow: Connect the UI to a powerful cloud-based AI engine and ensure the AI output is correctly parsed and displayed in the editor.[To Do]The Immutable Diff Panel: The Time Graph must provide a clear, deterministic review process for all AI-generated code. This is the non-negotiable heart of our promise of governance.[To Do]First-Pass Playbook Validation: Implement initial Constitutional Validation through playbooks to ensure AI actions align with project rules and human values.[To Do]A Focused Experience: Aggressively hide or disable all other incomplete modes and features. The goal is to present a stable and awe-inspiring experience centered exclusively on the core generative loop.
Phase 2: Igniting the Flywheel (Next)
Objective: Launch the free tier of the Hatcher IDE, focused on the Gen HAT experience, to the public, initiating our Product-Led Growth (PLG) and community flywheel.
Strategic Focus: Drive mass adoption, gather critical user feedback, and cultivate our initial cohort of community champions.
Key Results:
Launch: Release a polished, publicly available version of the Hatcher IDE, with the Gen HAT as the core experience, for free, local use.
Activation: Achieve a strong activation rate, measured by the percentage of users who successfully execute their first AI-powered code generation and review it in the Time Graph.
Community: Foster the creation and sharing of the first public Playbooks, the flight plans that power our Autopilots.
💰 Phase 3: Monetization & The EGG Platform (v1.0.0 and Beyond)
Objective: Launch our commercial tiers and execute on our full platform strategy by offering two distinct EGG configurations to solve specific enterprise challenges.
Track 1: Core Product Evolution (Free Tier)
Mission: Continue to build the most powerful free, local-use IDE for AI-powered development.
Roadmap:
- Local LLM Support: Integrate with local models via Ollama to fulfill our promise of AI Sovereignty.
- Expanded Playbook Library: Grow the public marketplace of Playbooks, enhancing the capabilities of the Hatcher Autopilots.
- Performance Enhancements: Continuously improve the speed and efficiency of the core IDE.
Track 2: The EGG Platform
Mission: Provide a unified platform for building mission-critical software, allowing teams to choose the optimal configuration for their needs.
Roadmap:
- Teams Tier (v1.0.0): Introduce our first paid feature: Private Playbook Marketplaces. This allows teams to codify and share the custom flight plans for their internal Autopilots.
- Enterprise Tier (v1.1.0): Launch Hatcher EGGs (Enforced Governance Guardrails) Platform, featuring:
- EGG "Compatibility": The solution for large-scale enterprise deployment where 100% visual and functional consistency is the highest priority. This configuration leverages Tauri with an embedded CEF (Chromium) engine.
- EGG "Performance": The solution for environments where efficiency, a minimal footprint, and the highest level of security are paramount. This configuration uses Tauri's native OS WebView.
- Auditability & Compliance: Ship advanced Time Graph features for compliance officers and introduce robust audit logging.
- Hatcher BaaS: Launch our integrated Backend-as-a-Service to provide a zero-friction, end-to-end deployment solution for Hatcher EGGs.
Track 3: The Future: Community & Core
Mission: Fulfill our long-term architectural vision by empowering the community and forging our core in Rust.
Roadmap:
- Community-Powered Performance Actively work with the open-source community to perfect the cross-platform consistency of our EGG "Performance" (Tauri Native) components.
- The Path to Rust: Begin the strategic migration of the Hatcher IDE itself from our proven Electron prototype to a next-generation engine forged in Rust.
Our Guiding Principle
This roadmap reflects our commitment to a deliberate, phased approach. We are balancing foundational stability with ambitious innovation to establish Hatcher as the definitive Constitutional IDE for the AI era.
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