diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index 2ec35b7..c93ed05 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 name: CI 
 
 on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
   pull_request:
   workflow_dispatch:
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yaml b/.github/workflows/lint.yaml
index 4e7418a..fde6abe 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 name: lint and style checks
 
 on: 
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
   pull_request:
   workflow_dispatch:
 
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 1a86b8f..2998b06 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ repos:
     hooks:
       - id: mypy
         args: [--ignore-missing-imports, --check-untyped-defs]
-        additional_dependencies: [types-PyYAML]
+        additional_dependencies: [types-PyYAML, types-requests]
   - repo: https://github.com/pappasam/toml-sort
     rev: v0.24.2
     hooks:
diff --git a/.python-version b/.python-version
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c07333
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.python-version
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.11
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fa81333..89bb585 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools >= 61.0", "wheel"]
-build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+requires = ["hatchling"]
+build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "python_project"
 version = "0.0.1"
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
-dependencies = [
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
+
+[dependency-groups]
+dev = [
   "pre-commit",
   "pytest",
   "pytest-cov",
@@ -25,6 +27,12 @@ omit = [
 fail_under = 80
 show_missing = true
 
+[tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]
+packages = ["src"]
+
+[tool.hatch.metadata]
+allow-direct-references = true
+
 [tool.mypy]
 disable_error_code = ["no-redef"]  # for fasthtml
 
@@ -50,5 +58,3 @@ ignore = [
 known-local-folder = ["src"]
 no-lines-before = ["local-folder"]
 
-[tool.setuptools]
-packages = ["src"]