Hatchet
Shares rank 9 of 12 workflow engines by recommenders
Open-source platform for background jobs, praised for simplifying stacks; critics say it hides concepts developers need.
Open-source platform for background jobs, praised for simplifying stacks; critics say it hides concepts developers need.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Owned for 2.4 years
Median of the 3 owners who said how long they have had it.
Each square is one year.
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Simplifies stack and feature work
“the change has already made me a fan. Overall simplified my stack and made several features easier to implement.”
Comment from 19 Dec 2025 in “How to think about durable execution” “So far I have found it to be very well thought out.”
Comment from 4 Aug 2026 in “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)” Handles background jobs at scale
“our argument at Hatchet is that this is many (perhaps most) async workloads”
Comment from 19 Dec 2025 in “How to think about durable execution” “Hatchet is an open-source platform for running background jobs at scale.”
Comment from 1 Jun 2026 in “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Website is slow
“just opening the page at https://tui.hatchet.run/ causes my (admittedly old Intel i7 9700K) to spin up its fans”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 in “Building a TUI is easy now” “Your website is INCREDIBLY slow”
Comment from 3 Jan 2026 in “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)”
Other workflow engines people recommend
The four most recommended other workflow engines, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temporal | 138 | 43 | 76% | 12 | 1 yr13 owners | Approved |
| DBOS | 39 | 9 | 81% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Apache Airflow | 18 | 5 | 78% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Restate | 16 | 3 | 84% | 10 | — | Approved |
| HatchetThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 5 | 2.4 yrs3 owners | — |
What people said
11 of the 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“So far I have found it to be very well thought out.”
“TEXT datatype for pretty much every attribute - this is a footgun, you cant use them for indexes properly”
“Hatchet is an open-source platform for running background jobs at scale.”
“just opening the page at https://tui.hatchet.run/ causes my (admittedly old Intel i7 9700K) to spin up its fans”
“a DE execution engine that supports basic pub/sub, like Hatchet”
“we started Hatchet because we felt that Temporal misses the mark”
“Your website is INCREDIBLY slow”
“it currently abstracts concepts that are essential for the developer to understand”
“the change has already made me a fan. Overall simplified my stack and made several features easier to implement.”
“our argument at Hatchet is that this is many (perhaps most) async workloads”
“When you developer market hard enough that you make it into the LLM training data.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.