# Hatchet

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Hatchet and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 2.4 years (3 owners).

**Verdict:** Open-source platform for background jobs, praised for simplifying stacks; critics say it hides concepts developers need.

## Why people recommend it

- Simplifies stack and feature work (2 comments): "the change has already made me a fan. Overall simplified my stack and made several features easier to implement." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329049)) "So far I have found it to be very well thought out." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169361))
- Handles background jobs at scale (2 comments): "our argument at Hatchet is that this is many (perhaps most) async workloads" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328355)) "Hatchet is an open-source platform for running background jobs at scale." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362455))

## What people warn about

- Website is slow (2 comments): "just opening the page at https://tui.hatchet.run/ causes my (admittedly old Intel i7 9700K) to spin up its fans" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013015)) "Your website is INCREDIBLY slow" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46475494))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Temporal](https://hackerapproved.com/p/temporal.md): 138 recommend
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- [Apache Airflow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/airflow.md): 18 recommend
- [Restate](https://hackerapproved.com/p/restate.md): 16 recommend
- [Windmill](https://hackerapproved.com/p/windmill.md): 11 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Hatchet", https://hackerapproved.com/p/hatchet/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).