news.ycombinator.com• Aug 3, 2026• 1 min read
Show HN: Keystroke – open sourcing our internal agents and automations platformHello HN,I’m Dallin, building Keystroke with my co-founder Blake. Keystroke is a recent pivot from Buster, our original YC W24 company.Keystroke lets you build agents and durable workflows as TypeScript in your own repo, then deploy them to a web application where your team can use them. Our repo (ELv2 licensed) is here: https://github.com/keystrokehq/keystroke.At Buster, we spent a lot of time building internal agents and automations. We used visual platforms like n8n and Zapier, as well as code-first tools like Trigger.dev, Mastra, and several of Vercel’s open frameworks. We genuinely liked many of them, but kept encountering two different problems:1. Visual platforms gave us integrations, credentials, hosting, and an app the rest of the team could use, but became difficult to test, review, and debug as our systems grew.2. Code-first tools gave us the flexibility of ordinary TypeScript and worked well with coding agents, but left us building the UI, runtime, permissions, credentials,
