Your website is INCREDIBLY slow, and I have a very good laptop with dedicated GPU. Somehow some JS is killing the whole thing.

Anyways, the concept looks cool, but I'm failing to see a real value add to something like Temporal. What is it?

Oh no, haven't gotten reports about the website being slow, thanks for flagging! Which browser are you using?

Regarding Temporal, our goal is to create the best developer experience possible, and we started Hatchet because we felt that Temporal misses the mark (I used Temporal for years before starting Hatchet).

The primary difference is that we're not solely focused on durable workflows, we're a general-purpose background jobs platform which offers durable workflows as a feature. In our view there are a set of equally important primitives: tasks, events, streaming/pubsub, concurrency, priority, rate limiting, scheduling, and yes, durable workflows.

Tasks being the entrypoint to the platform, rather than immediately dealing with the overhead of durable workflows, generally makes Hatchet easier to adopt for engineering teams. I wrote a little more about how task queues relate to durable execution here: https://hatchet.run/blog/durable-execution

We've also invested quite heavily in platform features like logging, observability, alerting, and our UI which either aren't offered or are underdeveloped in Temporal.

But ultimately I'd encourage people to give both a try - we're both MIT licensed and can easily be run locally.

I’m on chrome. Maybe it was a hiccup on my end.

Looks interesting.

We are in the process of looking for some alternatives to temporal/prefect. Would you mind sharing your email so I can send a few questions along with my cofounder?

Yep! Feel free to email me at alexander [at] hatchet [dot] run

The website seems fine to me. I'm using Chrome on Linux with an X1 Carbon (so integrated graphics, no fancy GPU).

I didn't notice the website being slow (Firefox on android, midrange device)