I use it mainly to triage daily news.
Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
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#372I use it for triaging news.
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#373I'm running a few instances of OpenClaw(and Zeroclaw). I use it for a few things
1. Experimenting with local models. OpenClaw uses local inference on a DGX Spark machine. Helps me understand how different, newer models work and behave
2. Bot 1 helps me maintain a personal project. It sits in discord channel and I throw ideas at it, ask it to log issues, give me priorities, update docs etc. Basically maintenance work to manage the repo
3. Bot 2 is general purpose assistant to take notes(while driving, on a walk, etc), give me daily AI news summary from trusted sources and my relevance criteria. Give me suggestions on what should I dig deeper
4. Bot 3 is setup for work environment. Sits in slack as my team's assistant. Process meeting notes automaticlaly from google and send us summary for the week/month, important notes from a project, answer questions for rest of the org and more. This is most "real" use case so far for me
I build https://github.com/ric03uec/clawrium as a lightweight orchestration system to manage agents on a local network because i was having a hard time keeping tabs on these agents. all the ssh-ing and config file gymnastics was too much to handle.
Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
#374When 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.
> No one can tell me a compelling use case.
I get it to run really slow unit tests and fix them, I provide it feeedbak while at lunch, walking the dog, whatever else.
My developer friends also do the same.
Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
#375When 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.
Yes agree, I imagine that's why NVIDIA and OpenAI jumped at them. I wouldn't touch that vibe-coded mess with a ten foot pole.
The dev uses AI to build but it's not vibe coded.
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#376I’m a professional maintenance gardener and I have used NanoClaw running on my Mac to do the following: Schedule jobs on my job management tool (I vibed it) using a custom MCP. I’ll ask it questions like “what jobs are on today” etc. start the job, complete the job etc. It will watch Gmail using a MCP for work orders from local real estate agents, where it will schedule quote visits. After the quote visit I add the p…
Did you transition from dev to gardener? If so, I’d be curious about your story.
Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
#377Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a series of skills and scripts that I manually invoke using Pi. It checks my calendar, Slack, email, etc. and keeps pretty good track of my day, to the point that I trust it enough to get a lot of noise out of my head.
What kind of noise does it filter out for you?
Mainly all the tasks that I otherwise feel I have to track myself. I've found that my head feeling clearer is an indication that I trust a tool to not lose context.
Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
#378Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's what I ended up doing, made my daily briefing a Cron job and running it via "claude -p". Wired it up to make a podcast, with MCP tools I made to create an MP3 with OpenAI, another to upload it to one of my sites with an updated RSS feed, so I can listen in the AntennaPod podcast app each morning.
Nice. Even better would be having your agent write code for the deterministic bits and telling the agent it should “invoke the script called blah” to do uploads (or whatever you want to have happen deterministically).
Yep, I agree! My MCP tools are local compiled Go binaries, and the tool that uploads my podcast is actually a local Go CLI that Claude calls. Claude's main role / intelligence is in evaluating which of the morning's HN & Lobsters news is most relevant to me specifically, and writing the podcast script. I'm all for deterministic tools, and it saves on tokens too.
One advantage of splitting it into MCP tools though, one day I'd run out of pre-paid OpenAI TTS credit, and Claude was smart enough to try using Mistral TTS instead. I could have done that fallback deterministically too, but it wasn't something I'd thought of yet.
I once had a friend tell me they'd got their AI to tell them the weather every morning... and the thought of that poor AI, web researching Weather APIs & writing a new python script to call the API every morning, instead of just doing the research once and making it a binary (or even just a curl line)... drove me crazy. All that wasted time and compute. Some people just like to watch tokens burn.
Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
#379I 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…
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#380I still use it and find it helpful. My OpenClaw instance uses an Obsidian project as its memory. Mainly, it's just my main day-to-day LLM that I access via WhatsApp, but instead of the memory being locked away with a specific vendor, it's stored in version control that I can read and edit. That reason alone makes it compelling to me. When a better LLM comes along, I can just switch, and my memory and system prompts c…
I’ve also found it useful for personal stuff. For example I have my OpenClaw bot in a family group on Telegram and everyday it asks my family members stories from their lives that it meticulously documents and uses as a basis for further questions in the future and has so far managed to build a rich family history spanning 50 odd family members (a project I had always been planning to do for never found the time to).
I can't relate to this need to fully explore and then document everyone's history - I can have a conversation for an evening and forget everything the next day, and I'm happy with that, the truly important things (to me) will distill themselves naturally.
A case of different strokes for different folks I suppose.