# Procrastinate

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Procrastinate and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Task queue that Django teams have run for years; people praise its speed, scale and clean, well-tested code.

## Why people recommend it

- Moved Celery tasks over, running well (1 comments): "We moved all our celery tasks to procrastinate at work for all our django backends since almost two years now and it has been great." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086198))
- Fast enough for startups (1 comments): "if you are a startup and need speed, just go with something like procrastinate" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086514))
- Runs millions of tasks daily (1 comments): "they're still sufficient to run millions upon millions of tasks per day" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46085002))
- Clean architecture and well tested (1 comments): "IMO super clean architecture and well tested." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46084615))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Oban](https://hackerapproved.com/p/oban.md): 39 recommend
- [Celery](https://hackerapproved.com/p/celery.md): 33 recommend
- [Solid Queue](https://hackerapproved.com/p/solidqueue.md): 22 recommend
- [Sidekiq](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sidekiq.md): 14 recommend
- [Django background tasks](https://hackerapproved.com/p/django-background-tasks.md): 9 recommend

## Cite as

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