[HN Gopher] Show HN: Tasker - An open-source desktop agent for b...
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       Show HN: Tasker - An open-source desktop agent for browser and OS
       automation
        
       Hi HN  I recently got married, promptly had a bit of a meltdown,
       and decided to lock myself in a room and build for a while.  At the
       same time, I was trying to outbound sell for my startup and kept
       running into the same problem: I wanted an automation tool that
       could actually use my computer like a person. Click through UIs,
       copy/paste between apps, handle messy workflows -- not just APIs
       and webhooks.  I couldn't find anything that felt: - consumer-
       friendly (non-technical) - local-first - flexible enough for real-
       world, UI-driven tasks  So I challenged myself to see how far I
       could get building an open-source, desktop automation app powered
       by AI. That's Tasker.  I've been using it daily for ~2-3 weeks for
       sales workflows, and my father has been using it to help generate
       estimates for his HVAC business. It's still early (still needs to
       expand to general OS), but it's already replaced a lot of manual
       work for us in browser.  One thing that's become very clear: a
       cloud/deployable version that can run on cron or be triggered via
       HTTP would unlock a lot of use cases. I'm not totally sure where
       this goes next, but I wanted to share it early and get feedback.
       Would love thoughts on: - What workflows you'd actually trust
       something like this with - Desktop vs cloud tradeoffs - Where this
       breaks down in practice - Whether this feels useful or just scary
       Repo and docs are linked on the site.
        
       Author : schnetzlerjoe
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2026-01-01 20:53 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (automatewithtasker.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (automatewithtasker.com)
        
       | yodon wrote:
       | HN hug of death? Can't open the site
        
         | schnetzlerjoe wrote:
         | Hahahaha, oh fun. I guess so then.
         | 
         | It is opening for me, maybe DNS stuff although its been up for
         | a month. https://automatewithtasker.com or
         | https://github.com/pitalco/tasker if that does not work.
        
       | Tade0 wrote:
       | Not to be confused with Tasker for Android:
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       | https://tasker.joaoapps.com/index.html
        
         | schnetzlerjoe wrote:
         | No! It's not!!!!
        
       | 1shooner wrote:
       | >Your data never leaves your computer. Tasker runs entirely on
       | your machine for maximum privacy.
       | 
       | Am I misreading your docs that Tasker actually does _not_ support
       | running local, and in fact requires using either a Google,
       | Anthropic, or OpenAI service?
        
         | schnetzlerjoe wrote:
         | Technically it can run any OpenAI schema open source LLM
         | through Fireworks or Groq or whatever. But you are right I
         | should probably make that clearer.
        
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