Finally, axe-throwing venues can stop running their blade inspection logs in a 2019 Google Sheet
HatchetOps is the only purpose-built operations platform for competitive axe-throwing venues and franchise chains. It handles everything from per-lane blade condition ratings to WATL coach certification tracking — so your insurance carrier never knows something before you do. I built this after a buddy got blindsided by a compliance audit across three venues, and I decided that was the last time that would happen to anyone running a serious operation.
- Shift scheduling with coach-to-lane ratio enforcement and blackout date management
- Per-lane blade inspection logs with condition ratings across 14 tracked degradation indicators
- WATL and IATF certification expiry tracking with configurable advance-warning windows
- Liability waiver compliance dashboard with per-guest audit trail and signature timestamping
- Franchise-level rollup reporting — one screen, every venue, no spreadsheet archaeology
Mindbody, Stripe, DocuSign, WaiverForever, Square, Salesforce, AuditVault, CertSync Pro, Google Workspace, ShiftBase, LaneMetrics API, ComplianceHQ
HatchetOps runs as a set of loosely coupled microservices behind an Nginx reverse proxy, with each domain — scheduling, inspection, compliance, certification — owning its own service boundary and deployment lifecycle. The core transactional data lives in MongoDB because the document model maps cleanly onto inspection records and waiver payloads that vary in shape across venue configurations. Session state and real-time lane-status broadcasting run through Redis, which also serves as the long-term audit log store for compliance queries. The frontend is a React SPA that talks exclusively through a versioned REST gateway — no service bleeds into another, no exceptions.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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