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Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by chadd »

i built my own version of this called 'threethings' (per pmarca's essay on the subject of personal productivity). i gave an ec2 claude instance access to a folder that is synced with gdrive so it's easy to get local files to the instance, and gsuite access. i had claude build a flutter app one hour when i couldn't sleep, and gave it a telegram bot account. i talk to it via telegram and it keeps tabs on personal and work emails. it does 'deep work' late at night and sends me a 7am summary of my day. my wife is asking for it now, because it will notice urgent emails first thing in the morning and alert me.

i don't have time to open source it, but it's low key revolutionary having a pretty smart AI looking at my life every day and helping me track the three most important things to do.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by dangoodmanUT »

thehamkercat wrote: post #35

something feels off to me about the clawdbot hype About the maintainer's github: 688 commits on Nov 25, 2025... out of which 296 commits were in clawdbot, IN ONE DAY, he prolly let lose an agent on the project for a few hours... he has more than 200 commits on an average per day, but mostly 400-500 commits per day, and people are still using this project without thinking of the repercussions) Now, something else i re…

the developer is very well known https://github.com/steipete

the crypto is obviously not official and just another scam, trying to ride the popularity

Make of that what you will

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by kristopolous »

thehamkercat wrote: post #35

something feels off to me about the clawdbot hype About the maintainer's github: 688 commits on Nov 25, 2025... out of which 296 commits were in clawdbot, IN ONE DAY, he prolly let lose an agent on the project for a few hours... he has more than 200 commits on an average per day, but mostly 400-500 commits per day, and people are still using this project without thinking of the repercussions) Now, something else i re…

It seems wildly trivial. Chat completion loop with toolcalling over a universal chat gateway.

What's the innovation here? Local model? That was always possible. Toolcalling? Been around a couple years now...

It's like 5 minutes of vibe coding at most. There's likely 1,000s of similar projects already on GitHub

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by gmerc »

hexsprite wrote: post #17

Clawdbot finally clicked for me this week. I was renting out an apartment and I had it connect to FB messenger, do the initial screening messages and then schedule times for viewings in my calendar. I was approving it's draft messages but starting giving it some automatic responses as well. Overall it did 9/10 on this task with a couple cases where it got confused. This is just scratching the surface but this was som…

Wait until you figure out prompt injection. It's wild

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by raybb »

3333333331 wrote: post #29

the thing chews through claude usage like a rabid dog. i've not figured out what model to run it with to keep it cheap but still useful

Yeah it's a little weird how the token usage is so high after just a few prompts.

I'm also using it with the z.ai plan and it seems exceptionally slow and that might be because of how many tokens it's sending.

That being said, one I got speech to text setup that did work decently.

Also, scheduling a reminder with it wasn't successful. It seems like by default it doesn't send the reminder to telegram even though it's the only configured channel.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by apetresc »

anotherengineer wrote: post #36
apetresc wrote: post #10

I found this HN post because I have a Clawdbot task that scans HN periodically for data gathering purposes and it saw a post about itself and it got excited and decided to WhatsApp me about it. So that’s where I’m at with Clawdbot.

how do you have Clawdbot WhatsApp you? i set mine up with my own WhatsApp account, and the responses come back as myself so i haven't been able to get notifications

I have an old iPhone with a broken screen that I threw an $8/month eSIM onto so that it has its own phone number, that I just keep plugged in with the screen off, on Wifi, in a drawer. It hosts a number of things for me, most importantly bridges for WhatsApp and iMessage. So I can actually give things like Clawdbot their own phone number, their own AppleID, etc. Then I just add them as a contact on my real phone, and voila.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by sejje »

HorizonXP wrote: post #15
atonse wrote: post #4

Clawdbot is interesting but I finally feel like those people who look at people like me raving about Claude code when it barely works for them. I have no doubt clawdBot, when it works, must feel great. But I’ve had the tough time setting it up and found it to be very buggy. My first couple of conversations? It forgot the context literally seconds later when I responded. Nevertheless, I’m sure it’s improving by the da…

I’ve been doing Vim + aider, and now Claude Code. Those tools I understood. I never got into Cursor because I’m too old to give up Vim. Clawd.bot really annoyed me at first. The setup is super tedious and broken and not fun. That’s mostly because I’m too impatient to tinker like I used to. However, once you tinker, it’s so-so. I don’t think it’s a lot better than Claude Code or anything, but I think it’s just a focus…

What's up with aider? Did it get abandoned?

What models do you have driving now?

I've stepped away for a while and I haven't tried claude code yet

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by username223 »

thehamkercat wrote: post #35

something feels off to me about the clawdbot hype About the maintainer's github: 688 commits on Nov 25, 2025... out of which 296 commits were in clawdbot, IN ONE DAY, he prolly let lose an agent on the project for a few hours... he has more than 200 commits on an average per day, but mostly 400-500 commits per day, and people are still using this project without thinking of the repercussions) Now, something else i re…

So it's just the Yegge pump-n-dump again? We live in a nation with an "AI and Crypto Czar," so it's not exactly surprising to see multiple versions of this grift.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by maximilianroos »

thehamkercat wrote: post #35

something feels off to me about the clawdbot hype About the maintainer's github: 688 commits on Nov 25, 2025... out of which 296 commits were in clawdbot, IN ONE DAY, he prolly let lose an agent on the project for a few hours... he has more than 200 commits on an average per day, but mostly 400-500 commits per day, and people are still using this project without thinking of the repercussions) Now, something else i re…

He explicitly disavowed any crypto / coin endorsement

(I don't _love_ his vibes on Twitter, but he seems like a very reasonable guy generally, and the project seems awesome)

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by [deleted] »

eclipxe wrote: post #39
hecanjog wrote: post #32

This seems like a nightmare. I wanted to be interested, I'm still interested I guess, but the onboarding experience is just a series of horrible red flags. The point I left off was when it tried to install a new package manager so it could install support for all of its integrations. Hell no.

Uh. You can choose to use npm, pnpm or bun during install. It doesn’t try to install a new package manager. Maybe you were confusing clawdhub for something?

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