diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e3d5cd0..85a001d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["hatchling"]
+requires = ["hatchling", "hatch-vcs"]
 build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Source = "https://github.com/unknown/hayhooks"
 hayhooks = "hayhooks.cli:hayhooks"
 
 [tool.hatch.version]
-path = "src/hayhooks/__about__.py"
+source = "vcs"
 
 [tool.hatch.envs.default]
 dependencies = [
diff --git a/src/hayhooks/__about__.py b/src/hayhooks/__about__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b95c50..0000000
--- a/src/hayhooks/__about__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023-present Massimiliano Pippi <mpippi@gmail.com>
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-__version__ = "0.0.1"