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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?

#141

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…

What model, or models, are you querying in the backend?

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

#142

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.

What privacy? If you're using ChatGPT or Claude, your chats are still logged.

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

#143

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…

> This is the product that Apple and Google were unable to build It's not they're unable to build it, it's that their businesses are built on "engagement" and wasting human time. A bot "engaging" with the ads and wasting its time would signal the end of their business model.

Yes, they already said that.

> because it’s a threat to their business model.

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

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post #142

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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.

What privacy? If you're using ChatGPT or Claude, your chats are still logged.

It's local, meaning it uses local models, what they said in the sentence prior to the privacy one.

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

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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.

They can still be very useful because new models are reaching an asymptote in performance. Meanwhile as hardware gets cheaper in the future (current RAM prices notwithstanding), these models will become faster to run on local hardware.

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

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post #142

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What privacy? If you're using ChatGPT or Claude, your chats are still logged.

It's local, meaning it uses local models, what they said in the sentence prior to the privacy one.

From what I've read, OpenClaw only truly works well with Opus 4.5.

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

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It's local, meaning it uses local models, what they said in the sentence prior to the privacy one.

From what I've read, OpenClaw only truly works well with Opus 4.5.

The latest Kimi model is comparable in performance at least for these sorts of use cases, but yes it is harder to use locally.

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

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How exactly has Simon been grifting?

Visit his site. "Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now" It's immediately obvious it's bullshit.

I completely and utterly disagree. Simon is no gifter. Intellectually lazy snobs think that any time someone has genuine delight and excitement about something that they’re “grifting.” Also, for anyone who is trying (regardless of whether they are succeeding) the to make money—that isn’t synonymous with “grifting.” God, some of you need a better relationship with a dictionary.

Plus, it seems some of y’all love to hate the very industry which puts a roof over your head. You’re hoping and praying that it all burns down—yet where will that leave you? How do you feel about becoming a plumber—-until the robots take that job?

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

#149

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.

It's the other way around. At least for most people, it grants access to your personal data to an LLM (and by extension its inference provider) in the cloud.

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

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post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What privacy? If you're using ChatGPT or Claude, your chats are still logged.

It's local, meaning it uses local models, what they said in the sentence prior to the privacy one.

Unless you have unusually powerful hardware, local models will unfortunately currently not really cut it for Moltbot.
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