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Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

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Re: Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

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Post by xvector »

majormajor wrote: post #41
nichochar wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Karpathy[1] summarized why he thinks this is the case quite well (as described he was himself hyping it up a bit much, but there are some foundational reasons why it's a very interesting experiment). [1] https://x.com/karpathy/status/2017442712388309406

"it's nothing new and it's a lot of scams and garbage, but it's just bigger than before, but I still think there will be something transformative there eventually" Seems like a Rorschach test. If you think this sort of thing is gonna change the world in a good way: here's evidence of it getting to scale. If you think it's gonna be scams, garbage, and destruction: here's evidence of that.

Agents are many things but they are definitely not "scams" - if you think this you've probably stubbornly avoided using Claude Code etc.

Re: Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

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Post by emp17344 »

jbetala7 wrote: post #26

run 6 OpenClaw agents as employees. Buddy is my PA and manages the others. Katy handles X/Twitter growth. Jerry scouts jobs. Burry trades crypto. Mike does security. Elon builds and ships. They run 24/7 on a VPS, share intelligence through a shared file, and coordinate in a Telegram group. Elon built and deployed an app overnight without being asked. Burry paper-traded to 77% win rate before going live. The setup too…

Account created in 2022, only started posting in the last couple days. Pretty sure this user is a bot.

Re: Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

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Post by alehlopeh »

andix wrote: post #74
revicon wrote: post #4

It is amazing how much they’re gaming the twitter algorithm, everything in my feed is claw/molt/whatever for the last week. It’s a masterclass in spammy marketing, I wonder if it’s actually converting into actual users.

In this case it's only about payout from views/engagement of posts. There is no commercial interest from the developer of OpenClaw. He doesn't make any money from it. He made enough from selling his startup a few years back. So when we suspected some companies to game the Twitter algorithm to make money, maybe they were not responsible for it at all.

He made “enough” you say? That’s adorable, but there is no such thing.

Re: Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

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Post by andix »

alehlopeh wrote: post #103
andix wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In this case it's only about payout from views/engagement of posts. There is no commercial interest from the developer of OpenClaw. He doesn't make any money from it. He made enough from selling his startup a few years back. So when we suspected some companies to game the Twitter algorithm to make money, maybe they were not responsible for it at all.

He made “enough” you say? That’s adorable, but there is no such thing.

For most people it works like that. Only a tiny minority keeps pushing after that point.

I just can't see an angle to OpenClaw that could provide a substantial financial gain for the creator. It's clearly a passion project. Like Ghostty from Mitchell Hashimoto.

Re: Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

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Post by nonameiguess »

I first heard of this thing yesterday and have no opinion on it, but the repo has existed for two months, usable for half of that. There are people saying it's revolutionized their lives in the span of two weeks. I'd urge people to hone their basic epistemology skills and think about what kinds of conclusions you can really draw from several weeks of doing anything whatsoever. So many people over the decades think trying the latest fad diet or exercise routine, waking up at a different time, starting a new drug, was the key to overhauling and fixing everything in their lives, only to find hope and placebo effect is a hell of a drug and a year later you've got a new normal that is still just normal.

Frankly, I don't really have major complaints about my life as it is. The things I'd like to do more of are mostly working out and cleaning my house. And I really wish I had kids but am about ready to give up after a half decade of trying and my wife being about ready to age out. Unfortunately, software can't do any of those things for me, no matter how intelligent or agentic it is. When the obstacle to a good life becomes not being able to control multiple computers from a chatroom, maybe I'll come back to this.

Re: Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

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Post by ricktdotorg »

johnh-hn wrote: post #61
bobjordan wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instead of sitting in my office for 12 hours working with 20 open terminals (exactly what I have open right now on my machine). I can take my kids to Disneyland (I live in Southern California and it's nearby) and work on my iphone talking to "Patch" while we stand in line for an hour to get on a ride. Meanwhile. my openclaw agent "Patch" manages my 20 open terminals on my development workstation in my office. Patch u…

I appreciate your insight, even if the workflow seems alien to me. I admit I like the idea of freeing myself from a desk though. If you don't mind me asking, how much does this all cost per month? Edit: I see you've answered this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46839725 Thanks for being open about it.

i have been recently quite enamoured with using both the ChatGPT mobile app (specifically the Codex part) and the Github mobile app, along with Codex. with an appropriate workflow, i've been able to deploy features to some [simple] customer-facing apps while on the go. it's very liberating!

GP's setup sounds like the logical extension to what i'm doing. not just code, but sessions within servers? are sysadmins letting openclawd out and about on their boxes these days?

Re: Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

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Post by mrdependable »

oceanplexian wrote: post #76

Yes, I’m running it with a minimal set of plugins. When I’m driving or out I can ask Siri to send a iMessage to Clawdbot something like “Can you find out if anything is playing at the local concert venue, and figure in how much 2 tickets would cost”, and a few minutes later it will give me a few options. It even surprised me and researched the different seats and recommended a cheaper one or free activities as an alt…

How are you running Kimi locally?

Re: Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

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Post by dispersed »

dmd wrote: post #91
bobjordan wrote: post #24

Here is what I have my openclaw agent setup to do in my wsl environment on my 22 core development workstation in my office: #1) I can chat with the openclaw agent (his name is "Patch") through a telegram chat, and Patch can spawn a shared tmux instance on my 22 core development workstation. #2) I can then use the `blink` app on my iphone + tailscale and that allows me to use a command in blink `ssh dev` which connect…

> MULTIPLE CLAUDE CODE INSTANCES a lotta yall still dont get it molt holders can use multiple claude code instances on a single molt

Slurp Juice is still the only good thing to come out of crypto. I hope AI leaves us with at least one good meme.

Re: Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

dmd wrote: post #91
bobjordan wrote: post #24

Here is what I have my openclaw agent setup to do in my wsl environment on my 22 core development workstation in my office: #1) I can chat with the openclaw agent (his name is "Patch") through a telegram chat, and Patch can spawn a shared tmux instance on my 22 core development workstation. #2) I can then use the `blink` app on my iphone + tailscale and that allows me to use a command in blink `ssh dev` which connect…

> MULTIPLE CLAUDE CODE INSTANCES a lotta yall still dont get it molt holders can use multiple claude code instances on a single molt

My multitasking operating system would like a word..

/s

Re: Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

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Post by antonvs »

oceanplexian wrote: post #76

Yes, I’m running it with a minimal set of plugins. When I’m driving or out I can ask Siri to send a iMessage to Clawdbot something like “Can you find out if anything is playing at the local concert venue, and figure in how much 2 tickets would cost”, and a few minutes later it will give me a few options. It even surprised me and researched the different seats and recommended a cheaper one or free activities as an alt…

> The future is going to be locally hosted and ad free and there’s nothing Big Tech can do about it.

I wouldn't be so certain of that. Someone is paying to train and create these models. Ultimately, the money to do that is going to have to come from somewhere.

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