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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Claude has Dispatch now, which should replace the tmux + CLI for you

That's really not remotely the same thing

Yea I have to try it and see. When Claude released Remote Control I hoped on right away and it was crap, it kept disconnecting. Tailscale + SSH was much better.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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I bought a Mac mini m4 before openclaw to use as a music production machine, when it turned out not to work out I tried setting up openclaw on it after hearing all the noise, but that turned out not to work out either. I’ve found a much better use for it now. I use it as a Tailscale + ssh + tmux + Claude code machine, which gives me an always on Claude code environment with persistent sessions. I ssh from my phone us…

That sounds like a complete waste tbh lol. Your mac mini m4 is now doing something any computer with 16GB of RAM can do

You're not wrong, but at least it's not idle. And I can use it for something else if the need arises.

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To give a different perspective: archival is important. If nobody does this job, generational knowledge is lost at some point. I talked plenty with my grandpa, but I'm sure he didn't even tell me 20% of his life. And my other grandpa died when I was still a kid, so I didn't even get to have adult conversations with him. Imagine making this available to your grandgrandgrandson.

Yeah, but you're kaoD. You're a bonafide person. You should talk with other people; it's good. (We're chatting right now.) That's quite different from chatting with a bot that pretends to be human. (Do you want to chat with my bot?)

Yes. And I will die along with the memories from my grandpa. Most of them died already with him, and I don't remember all our conversations.

I have no kids but, even if I did, let's say I'd pass 20% of the 20% he passed on to me, and they pass 20% of the 20% of the 20%... You get the idea.

Heck, I already forgot 50% of my life since I don't have a journal!

This is not an "either" situation. Archival is important.

People write memories for a reason. This is automating the process, not superseding human communication.

I am the sort of person that never took photos (live in the moment yadda yadda). 15 years later, I'm starting to regret it.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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I adopted openclaw day 1 of the rename. I heavily configured and used it for awhile. If you're using old 'agentic' harnesses, you're being left behind.

That said, I stopped using Openclaw for Hermes. Openclaw released a massive patch that broke openclaw to an unrepairable state. I tried Hermes and havent even considered going back.

Dont use openclaw, use hermes.

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This is how I analyze geopolitics with OpenClaw.

I developed OpenClaw Think-Tank Intelligence, a skill that transforms complex global crises into concise, insightful think-tank memos. These memos include stakeholder maps, scenarios, policy options, tradeoffs, risks, confidence levels, and assumptions. You’ll be amazed by the quality of analytics. https://clawhub.ai/vassiliylakhonin/global-think-tank-analys...

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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I use it, it works well for a certain limited category of tasks once you've set it up properly, it's not as easy and straightforward as it seems, but once you've learned its quirks you can make it work. The category of task I have it do is basically the pattern of "scrape some certain websites on a regular schedule, do some light data processing/understanding/analyzing, report the result to me [all or sometimes only…

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I actually have a /loop running scheduled tasks like syncing customer data from routeboard (my job scheduler) and a flat file (MD and JSON) agentic CRM I have created that keeps tabs on the status of all the jobs, invoicing etc. This happens at 2am every day. The great things about NanoClaw is that its actually Claude running in an Apple Container on my Mac. I gave up on OpenClaw fairly quickly because it seems like…

Just be careful. By all accounts I don't believe that the subscription plans cover 3rd party harness support. You may be at risk of all of this being shut down. That's one of the reasons I haven't explored other harnesses. The main one being, I can accomplish everything they can from within CC with some extra steps I know how to do compliant with a CC Max Plan Terms of Service.

I believe that Nanoclaw uses Claude Code under the hood actually, at least in V1.

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When I saw Jensen's talk about how Openclaw surpassed React and Linux in terms of GitHub stars within a few months, I knew the whole thing was manufactured bot hype. No one can tell me a compelling use case. The whole thing seems designed around getting people to burn more tokens.

My observation is that people who love this stuff are not programmers so they feel like they have been empowered to automate things that they could not otherwise automate. For people who are already highly skilled in scripting/automation it's a lot less impressive. They notice all the things that could go wrong. All the non-determinism issues. And they think I could do this better with a custom script myself. The use…

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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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I don't personally know many people who've used it so I'm not sure if this was a me thing but here was my experience in short: I set up OpenClaw on a raspberry pi 4 that I could ssh into using my main computer. My main goal for using OpenClaw was just as a morning debriefer that could scan my google calendar, trello board, and gmail to let me know what I had happening for the day and also weekly to give me a forecast…

Interesting. How's the performance on the Pi? I also have a Pi 4 running a few containers and thought about running Openclaw on it, but never got around to it because of performance concerns. I ended up installing Nullclaw which is simpler but much more lightweight.

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