Thanks for joining our Discord and asking the question there as well! I'll reply here as well for the HN community.

People have often tried to use Temporal to solve similar problems. We think Dispatch is a very different solution because we don’t require you to architect your system in terms of a rigid framework of activities and workflows... You just write regular code with simple functions, enabling incremental adoption into existing applications and making the code easy to test.

A friend of mine once described Dispatch as "Temporal without the galaxy brain", it's a pretty good way of phrasing it in my opinion :)