Be nice if this could be used by people who are bootstrapping their company and don't intend to take investment or have anything to do with VC.
Although I guess DigitalOcean is relying on VCs and incubators to do the work of filtering out spurious claims and con artists.
We've launched the Hatch program in beta to pilot the program to a small group of startups over the next month. While in beta, we're going to be working to refine the offering and eligibility criteria for bootstrapped startups to apply.
For now, we've included a call to action on the Hatch landing page for those bootstrapped startups who are interested in joining the Hatch program once we open it up to a larger group of startups.
How long do you expect the beta to last for and I couldn't see a CTA for bootstrapped startups. But I'd rather send an email for consideration to whoever is running the program / support when you guys have opened the program.
Thanks
They have little interest in helping out bootstrapped startups, because why hook into a thin vein when theres a nice fat one available?
The only 'cloud' platform that I know of that has a similar program open to 'bootstrapped' startups is Redhats OpenShift- https://www.openshift.com/startups/index.html
They don't give many details, but it appears the amount of credit given is customized for each participant. They also don't really say what their evaluation criteria are.
It would be awesome for them to recognise someone who is bootstrapping their tech stack. Give them enough leeway to start turning a profit to pay for their stack.