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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 lxgr »

eddythompson80 wrote: post #40
majormajor wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This feels like the "prompt engineering" wave of 2023 all over again. A bunch of hype about a specific point-in-time activity based on a lot of manual setup of prompts compared to naive "do this thing for me" that eventually faded as the tooling started integrating all the lessons learned directly. I'd expect that if there is a usable quality of output from these approaches it will get rolled into existing tools simi…

2023 was the year of “look at this dank prompt I wrote yo”-weekly demos.

And 2026 is shaping up to be the year of "look at this prompt my middle manager agent wrote for his direct reports" :)

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

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Post by lxgr »

z3ratul163071 wrote: post #90
rcarmo wrote: post #5

I ran it for a couple of days in a VM in my Proxmox cluster. It was cute, but so amazingly insecure (systemd + sudo + installing whatever it wanted, plus requiring Telegram for access - or another SIM card for Signal) that I just gave up and started building my own thing ( https://github.com/rcarmo/vibes ) so I could have a mobile experience I could trust over Tailscale and sandbox copilot CLI (or any ACP-compliant a…

what's with this tailscale thing everybody is talking about like it being a cure to cancer. what's wrong with good old wg alone?

It has excellent built-in NAT traversal (almost always peer to peer via hole punching etc., with relay nodes only when everything else fails) and a point-and-click management plane (but also powerful ACLs if you need them).

The former is mainly what I use it for. Being able to SSH to a Raspberry Pi behind sketchy triple-NATted hotel Wi-Fi or being able to use an Android phone in a different country as an "exit node" for online banking (many banks hate commercial VPNs) is very neat.

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

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Post by pvinis »

I am using it but to be honest it's simple enough to use Claude code for what I do.

the main thing I am doing is slowly cleaning up my 15k email inbox.

I'm using himalaya, an awesome cli tool to access emails, and openclaw to take my requests and make them commands and run then.

the one good thing that openclaw has over Claude code is that its easy to tell it "always remember X" and it has the ability to do it, thanks to the extra .md files it has set up. I'm sure it's easy enough to do it with Claude code and a directory with a Claude.md and another for the memory or rules. but openclaw is ready already.

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

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Post by someguyiguess »

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…

I don’t get it. You can do that with the Claude app or ChatGPT too. What’s the value add?

Edit: oh I see. It’s local. So privacy. Quite a good value add actually.

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

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Post by someguyiguess »

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…

Gastown also had a supervisor “mayor”. How is this one different?

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

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Post by joao_antunes »

Krutonium wrote: post #123
antonvs wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Good News! The Models are done, and you can download them for free. Even if they stopped being worked on this moment, those are finished and usable right now, and won't get any worse over time.

Old models become outdated. Not sure how useful an outdated model can still be.
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