Haaflah 2026

Build for real businesses.Train real developers.Create open source.

A five-week product incubator for people who want to move from first contribution to software that matters in the real world.

Join the build Meet the product

Programme in motion2026

One open source productOpen
CommerceSelf-hosted tools for growing businesses.

05 weeks08 squad seats500+ builders

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The reason we gather

Not just a sprint.
A software foundry.

Haaflah becomes a continuous talent pipeline and product incubator, connecting curious people to work that survives past October.

We move as one system: community into learning, learning into building, building into deployment, and deployment into useful software for small and medium businesses.

Build with care Learn in public Ship for someone real

Flagship product / v1.0.0

Open Commerce

A modular, headless, self-hostable commerce suite for SMEs priced out of the SaaS world. Permissive by design.

Building withNext.jsTailwindNode / GoPostgreSQLRedis

Customer storefront

A responsive catalogue, search, local cart state, one-page checkout, and WhatsApp receipts.

Merchant dashboard

Inventory management, order fulfilment, customer logs, and revenue analytics for the people running the business.

Backend platform

Auth, REST or GraphQL, local payment webhooks, and OpenAPI docs that make the whole system portable.

The contributor journey

From “I’m curious”
to “it’s deployed.”

Nobody is dropped into a repo and left alone. The programme has a clear ten-stage progression, with squads, mentors, reviews, and real feedback at every turn.

01
ApplicationOct 10 - Oct 24
02
OnboardingOct 26
03
Squad pairingOct 26 - Oct 29
04
Training sprintsWeekly
05
First PROct 30
06
Feature sprints
07
Demo & review
08
DeploymentDec 4
09
SME empowermentDec 7 - Dec 14

Five weeks / one rhythm

Make the work
move forward.

Monday alignment. Friday integration testing. Sunday PR merge deadline.

Foundations

Git workflows, Docker, repo setup, and the contribution guidelines.

Architecture

PRDs, Figma review, database schemas, and core API decisions.

Core build

Intensive coding, frontend-backend integration, and mentor reviews.

Polish

QA triage, regression fixes, responsive checks, and documentation.

Demo day

Cloud deployment, SME onboarding, release tagging, and impact showcase.

The measure of the work

Impact you
can point to.

2025 impact snapshot

The primary metric is not attendance. It is the number of people transformed into confident, real-world software builders.

40+registered participants

42+high-quality PRs

10+first-time contributors

1+SME solutions deployed

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