n8n
Build AI agents and workflows you can understand and control
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Build AI agents and workflows you can understand and control
4.8•78 reviews•4K followers
n8n is a platform for building, running, and managing AI agents and workflows, from prototype to production. Simple enough for business teams and flexible enough for developers: create agents and workflows visually, connect any system, data source, or AI model, and drop into code when needed.
This is the 7th launch from n8n. View more
Nod by n8n
Launching today
Nod does the work around your work, in your apps and on real websites, using a private computer of its own on your Mac or PC. It takes orders only from you, asks before anything you didn't ask for, and runs on the AI provider you choose. Free, Apache 2.0.
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👋 Heyy Product Hunt, I'm Johan from n8n Labs and I am super excited to share Nod!!
Nod started from the pain of AI chats being great at telling you how to do a thing... but not actually doing them.
🧾 chase the invoice
❌ cancel the trial before it renews
💬 answer the Slack thread
💰 check whether the hotel got cheaper
Nod runs a private virtual machine with its own browser on your Mac or Windows PC. It connects to Gmail, Slack, Notion, Drive and Calendar (200+ connections!), and finishes the job, on websites with no API too. And of course you can take over its browser whenever you want.
We spent most of our time on trust. Nod only takes orders from you. Emails and web pages it reads can't tell it what to do, and a separate check compares each action with your own words before it runs.
In our simulated test world it finished 98% of 678 runs across 226 errands, and never sent, paid, booked, posted or deleted anything that hadn't been approved.
When we onboarded our first testers, they all came for a one-off job and left wanting a daily one: a morning brief, prep for tomorrow's calls. So schedules and watches are in from day one.
It's free and open source. You bring your own AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter or your ChatGPT plan), and Nod shows what each task cost.
It's a research preview, so a few things aren't there yet. It doesn't run while your computer is asleep, and it can't call businesses on the phone. Both are on our list.
🤔 What's the first job you'd hand it?
Congrats on the launch! Been a fairly consistent user of N8N for over 3 years so really excited for the direction.
I’ve been getting into ChatGPT Dots lately for some autonomous work with a machine attached. Curious what you see as the biggest differences if I were to switch over to Nod?
@mdshack The open agents (openclaw, hermes) are a lot of hassle to keep spinning, and the easy ones (Instinct, GrokBot) are closed and run on someone else’s servers.
Nod is both open and easy. It runs on your computer with the AI provider you pick, and it asks before it sends, pays, books or deletes anything.
@aadilghani Most of a long task is reading, searching and clicking through sites, and that runs on its own. It only stops when something would go out (send, book, pay, delete) that your words didn't ask for. So searching flights runs through, booking one asks you first
@johancutych top! does it also nudge my phone already when it shoots the asks? if not happy to wire up a pushary plugin pr ;)
Congratulations on this launch! How is this going to impact n8n itself because you are launching it under a new name? Because I think it can unlock a lot for the platform..
@olympheon It's a research preview, coming from the Labs... n8n is becoming multi product and this might be the first major one to arrive!
Cancelling a trial is the one I'd try first. Lots of sites hide that behind a support chat instead of a button, what does Nod do then?
@artemkorchunov Thats the best part, it just chat it out for you :)
Luis from the n8n team here - I’ve tried a few other personal agents and I sometimes get this uncomfortable feeling of proactiveness that makes me wonder how much is pulling from my accounts, what's being accessed or shared and being too proactive in some cases
With Nod, I feel more in control of what I'm handing over, what model I want to use and of course, open-source
This is still a research preview, so plenty left to improve! but excited what the rest think about it :)
Hi! Albert here, one of the engineers that worked on shaping and building Nod! open to any question that you might have! and if there's something that you would like on Nod... it's Open Source! contributions welcome