Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by BeetleB » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:19 PM UTC

araes wrote: post #27

Personally, better way to phrase might be "Does anybody you've actually met, visually viewed, use OpenClaw? Can you verify them using the software nearby?" In a few years, it's become so easy to falsify articles, falsify comments, falsify images, difficult to really even trust responses online anyways. As far back as 2016, Microsoft already had bots deployed online that could respond 96,000 times [1] in 16 hours all…

At my not-small-company, we have a dedicated channel where employees discuss their OpenClaw experiments.

Real people do use it :-)

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by smcl » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:19 PM UTC

Absolutely not

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by herve76 » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:20 PM UTC

Not using it since Opus is gone

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by 8note » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:20 PM UTC

a friend is using it but it seems like it breaks a lot.

ive got the scheduled claude-code running a couple scripts to find what events are going on round town and what food is cheap at grocery stores, but how much am i looking at the results? not super often. its publishing to a discord channel rhat makes it real hard to read

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by joch » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:21 PM UTC

I tried it a bit, and while the potential is huge, I mostly just use a cli agent (claude/codex) via Blink shell (iPhone/iPad) with Wireguard for technical work or https://agency.nu for any automations using integration, voice chat etc.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by BoredPositron » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:22 PM UTC

williamstein wrote: post #56

This guy is: https://youtu.be/sxX8BMscce0?si=1MuE3_cCH_uDabrT

I got the AI Slop Tai Chi ad before and thought you tried to be funny.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by raajg » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:22 PM UTC

Telegram -> 1 Group/agent -> OpenClaw running on an old laptop

Using it for journaling and capturing ideas. Previous workflow as iPhone Memos. Now it's

voice message -> openclaw -> transcribe using parakeet -> git repo

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by canadiantim » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:22 PM UTC

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.

Openclaw simply makes the effectiveness of working with claude code and similar available to a broader audience that hadn't been exposed to it before. Sure Cowork does similar, but I believe that's still why Openclaw became so popular.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by everlier » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:23 PM UTC

I tried, really really hard but then I realised that I essence it's a poorly written agentic coding assistant that wastes a lot of tokens antropomorphising itself while forcing me to debug via WhatsApp instead of normal tools. So I leaned into that and made OpenCode my general assistant, it worked much better in this aspect.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by carimura » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:23 PM UTC

i've been engineering things for almost 30 years and getting it wired up to Discord was worse than a root canal. Slack seemed just a tad better but it still doesn't even work.

I feel like most of this can be done with the platform tools at this point or a tiny bit of wiring of your own without the mega-bloat to make something generalized for the whole world.