Aerini
Local-first workflow automation with plugins and MCP
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Aerini is an open source, local-first visual workflow engine. Wire nodes on a canvas and run them by hand, on a schedule, or from a webhook, on your machine or on a headless server. No account, no cloud, no telemetry. Extend it with sandboxed WASM plugins, or let AI agents like Claude Code build workflows through the separate aerini-mcp server. Pre-1.0 and still in development, so expect rough edges.
PH · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: business process automation software · 75 launches, 4 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Developer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial The canvas UI, scheduling, and webhook triggers are vibe-codeable, but a reliable workflow engine with a sandboxed WASM plugin system and many integrations is a substantial systems effort. Getting the execution, isolation, and reliability right takes more engineering depth than prompting alone provides.
What it would actually take: Build a local-first runtime (likely TypeScript or Rust) with a DAG executor, a persistence layer such as SQLite, and a scheduler plus webhook server. The plugin sandbox would use a WASM runtime such as wasmtime or Wasmer with capability-limited host APIs, and an MCP server would expose workflows to agents. The hard parts are execution isolation, failure recovery, and a stable plugin ABI, which call for experienced systems engineers.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #40 of 64 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
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