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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by mr3martinis »

mjsweet wrote: post #392
mr3martinis wrote: post #376

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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…

Congrats on making the change! That sounds like a much better situation for all around.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by azmz »

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…

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Post by altmanaltman »

eterm wrote: post #235
brtkwr wrote: post #230

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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 am weirded out but this, I find it horrific, like some kind of mind zombie, leeching humanity from your family members. Someone somewhere is thinking they're connecting with you and sharing their humanity but they're just shoveling their soul into a machine that is "meticulously documenting" them. Sorry, but ick.

Would you feel differently if it was an app that sent notifications every day to people to document their thoughts/memories?

I think the ick factor you are feeling is from anthromorphizing a computer program by thinking its a "mind zombie".

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by azmz »

gpjt wrote: post #385

I have it running on a Proxmox VM. It basically just sends me summaries -- it reads a bunch of RSS feeds I pointed it to (news, tech, etc) and gives me a daily summary, along with an image of the day based on that. It also sends me recommendations for times to go for a run based on the weather and my Strava activity, daily recommendations for stargazing (what's visible and when, weather, etc), and a couple of daily r…

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Post by mjsweet »

azmz wrote: post #402
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…

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Keep going with this hey? I think that as an old power user and an AI hawk I have managed to cobble together all the bits and bobs to make it work for me. But the next major move is an agentic computer that does all this stuff out of the box and really lowers the bar of entry for business owners... which looks like what you are doing. I would love to just chat with my agentic box all day long with my AirPods Pro... that would be amazing.

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Post by azmz »

jusasiiv wrote: post #336

I see some creative usage from other people for OpenClaw. My usage basically boiled down to commanding it via WhatsApp. What I mostly used the agent was mundane tasks like fetching information, creating documents for my work etc. Being able to schedule something is great, although OpenClaw quickly got confused about the cron tasks it had. I switched to ZeroClaw as the project is much smaller in terms of features and…

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Post by rednakta »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #212

I find OpenClaw and (more so) Hermes Agent useful for software development, research, and writing - but I refuse to run them anywhere that is not deeply-sandboxed and has no access to most of my digital life data. OK, everyone makes their own decisions re: privacy and security. Personally, I am comfortable running OpenClaw and Hermes Agent on a rented VPS (preferably in a docker container on a VPS) and allow limited…

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Post by rednakta »

mv4 wrote: post #168

Looking at the comments here, it appears people are trying to do too much, too soon, which inevitably backfires. The key is to put OC in a sandbox (don't give access to your real accounts, it must have ints own separate non-admin accounts for everything only "invite" with limited access as you would a contractor) and generally treat it as a new employee during a trial period. You'll be surprised by how effective it c…

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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by azmz »

Havoc wrote: post #342

Recently started exploring it and will likely continue. Particularly fascinated by how (fake) self aware it is on configuration and functionality. Can make changes to itself etc That said hesitant to give it access to emails etc so use will always be limited by that Found it quite hard to set up though relative to other selfhosted tools. Need for https and all the additional security measures they put in place after…

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