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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by osakasaul »

geoffmunn wrote: post #346
SunshineTheCat wrote: post #2

I see a decent number of people on social media who won't stop posting about how great it is and how much of a moron every person is for not using it. Oddly enough, rarely, if ever do they say what specific things they're using it for and how it's saving them time. I remain interested in it, however, I've still awaiting an actual use case that can't be handled by some other tool/service that does it better/faster.

We're using OpenClaw to do a massive number of fixes and improvements to our ERP. It takes Jira tickets, resolves them, and creates a GitHub PR, which is then reviewed by another AI agent. It can even analyse screenshots with MS Paint-style arrows. So far it's been an amazing tool - I am very impressed.

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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by mjsweet »

mr3martinis wrote: post #376
mjsweet wrote: post #41

I’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.

I was in IT for 30 years when I transitioned two years ago to gardening. It's the best decision I have made for my mental, physical and spiritual health. I had been accused of being a programmer for many years and even convinced myself a few times. Funnily enough, it's been the last year that I have been able to actually build things with Claude that I would never have tackled a few years ago. For so many years I had all sorts of loose ends with clients... all the hard stuff that was difficult to deliver and I was constantly stressed out and depressed. But as of today I can honestly say, with all the personal projects I have going for my own business and a few web dev jobs for friends, I have absolutely no loose ends hanging over my head. What a time to be alive.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by azmz »

jimbokun wrote: post #382
BeetleB wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lots of simple one offs. Stuff like "Here's the URL for a forum thread that has 10 pages of messages. Go through all of them and tell me if information X is in there." Or "Here is the site to after school activities. Check it once a day and notify me if there is anything that begins in March." Also, got it to give me the weather information I always want - I've not found a weather app that does it and would always ha…

Would be interesting to see an OpenClaw feature that offers to vibe code a deterministic script for scheduled or frequently repeating tasks.

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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by mandeepj »

8fingerlouie wrote: post #390
mandeepj wrote: post #248

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I think it has obscure uses here and there, like this one https://www.reddit.com/r/openclaw/comments/1shutzt/openclaw_...

But did it really warrant running an openclaw machine to do that ? Claude Code, Codex or something else running on your laptop could also have done that, and with Claude Cowork / Dispatch you could leave Claude running on your laptop at home, using your phone to have it do the work. I have no doubt agentic AI exists in our future, I'm just no so sure about needing openclaw.

For that Reddit post, it seems OpenClaw submitted that claim at a website, which I don’t think Claude code, codex or any other model can do. It requires a skill and tool calling combination.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by mistercheese »

brtkwr wrote: post #230
lexandstuff wrote: post #116

I 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).

This is a great idea! I’d be curious to learn more about your setup, particularly how it asks your family and follows up with further questions? Does it do it based on a graph of your family it builds real time? Or is it smart enough that you just prompt it to “follow up with more questions”? I’m having a hard time imagining it asking my family engaging questions they won’t just say, “I don’t remember”.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by satvikpendem »

redact207 wrote: post #39

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.

That's because it automatically stars itself when installed

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by Hardwired8976 »

TheDong wrote: post #301
nicksrose7224 wrote: post #273

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What is the accuracy of this method vs manual entry?

When I message my claw "Mark that I had 825 calories for lunch today", it has marked down 825 correctly 100% of the time so far. It shows me way fewer ads than all the popular fitness apps and loads way quicker since it doesn't have to load like 10MB of ads for me to enter one number, so it seems like a good improvement. I do not think it's an improvement over an excel sheet, but as the average openclaw user, I would…

But you need to know that the meal was 825 calories which these calorie tracker apps calculate for you with all the ingredient amounts.

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Post by azmz »

sixhobbits wrote: post #59

I set it up and had some fun but it was super janky and regularly broke, especially the whatsapp integration Now I have a separate plugged in macbook running nixos (that claude set up) and a single long-running claude code process with a channel to a Telegram bot. This means I can talk to it much like I could with OpenClaw, but it's much simpler (no weird soul.md etc). It feels more powerful than just claude code dir…

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