Blake Rouse

@skeptrune nick out here tryna convince us all to get a bike

waymos are very slow to get places i'm directionally bearish on founders or otherwise supposedly busy people that swear by them feels unserious

@gutomartino biggest difference is that n8n uses a JSON abstraction, not actual code in a repo you can grep, test, diff like you can with typescript

@cblakerouse So it's like the n8n MCP?

Introducing Keystroke: an n8n alternative built for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex. Here’s how it works:

@wackie yessir, don’t have a ton of docs/help around this but it is open source

@cblakerouse can i self host?

@LevJampolsky going to do a better job talking about trade offs in future messaging!

Right I see. Easier to maintain in a way, a bit like Convex uses Typescript instead of SQL with services like Supabase who are running Postgres in the back And since LLMs are very friendly to TS I suppose running Keystroke can be better for creating those automations in some sense =) Cool!

@robfelt was trying to channel my inner @benjitaylor w/o much real design experience

@robfelt logo definitely took some inspo from notion! the rest, idk

@aditabrm you’re a genius

Don’t send outbound sales emails offering gift cards or nice dinners. Everyone does that. Send sales emails with 70mm imax tickets to Dune 3 in rows K or L (please)

@krby_algo temporal is great!

@cblakerouse Thoughts on temporal?

@rayyyyyofsun 😂

@cblakerouse "Actual Typescript" is crazy

@drjoshcsimmons correct

@cblakerouse isn't this just ai agents from first principles with a ui?

@LevJampolsky biggest difference is that n8n uses a JSON abstraction, not actual code in a repo you can grep, test, diff like you can with typescript

@cblakerouse Always nice to see alternatives! I use n8n quite extensively, all wired via MCP to my Codex, CC and Hermes agents. What would you say the big difference is or it's a matter of preference? =)

@cardotrejos we've had an overwhelming amount of signups. should be back up!

@cblakerouse Hitting errors when try to signup

@ndrewpignanelli been here for a few years and i miss the east coast so bad

@cblakerouse I dont really miss it at all to be honest

@waghnakh_21 definitely took inspo from notion!

@cblakerouse congratulations on the launch! your logo gives me the feel of notion ;)

@ndrewpignanelli miss it? or not really?

@cblakerouse its cool seeing a video on the timeline and immediately knowing it was filmed in salt lake/utah

@D_R_Farrell utah!

@cblakerouse do my eyes deceive me or was this shot in colorado?

val town is a great tool! so are trigger, mastra, etc. • rn, keystroke agents ship with native web search/fetch tooling, sandboxes, any LLM, etc (you just deploy and don't have to think about piecing together any services). we'll be adding more over time. • the web platform we're building on top of the open framework will look more and more like an internal tool for all teams (w/ the code-based framework under the hood) currently, very similar functionality to these alternatives tho!

@cblakerouse curious why i'd want to use this over val town or notion workers?

@Vatsalsb yep. but n8n is a JSON abstraction, not actual code in a repo you can grep, test, diff

@cblakerouse I mean can't you already tell your AI Agents what to build in N8N, like I never manually fiddle around N8N anyways, I just tell claude to make whatever I need.

@Jowanza thank you sir

@cblakerouse Looks incredible.

Try Keystroke today, for free: keystroke.ai

h/t to @jeffgwoah for the outro track and @joshmillgate for super easy video assets in ultramock