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OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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Post by SunshineTheCat »

I keep reading folks saying OpenClaw has completely changed their life while posting a picture of 58 mac minis on their desk.

But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, Zapier, Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade), or something simple you could make yourself.

It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated at all (do you really need to be reminded to make coffee?)

I fully realize this is probably me being a curmudgeon, however, I have yet to see someone make an actual, practical use case for it. (I would genuinely like to know one, I just haven't seen it)

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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Post by black_puppydog »

mister_mort wrote: post #57
hansonkd wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agents will dominate the internet and open source code in a few years.

"Dead Internet Theory" is, even if it wasn't real 5 years ago, now hyperstitioned into truthfulness as the days go on.

Bonus for the use of the word "hyperstition". :)

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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Post by LorenDB »

arewethereyeta wrote: post #55
sumeno wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Separating fools from their money and data

you're talking about a free tool you know that right?

Not many people are using local LLMs for their OpenClaw backend, so most are paying money to OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. and getting their data siphoned as a bonus.

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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Post by fidotron »

What's so incredible about OpenClaw is so much of the value people are deriving from it relates to: cron jobs, remote access, "privacy" (which really it's not if using remote LLMs) and an inability to fuse data across siloes by normal people, so relying on AI to do it.

If we had a decent technical universe much of this stuff would work in ways that simply don't require LLMs for anything other than the initial setup.

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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Post by brtkwr »

I got OpenClaw to compile Node from source on my old Jetson Nano so that I can run OpenClaw natively instead of using Bun. It took 30 hours but it did it by spinning up a tmux session for the build and using a cron to monitor the tmux pane every hour and even fixing a failure at 5 am which I would have had to find out later had crashed but it had actually found what needed to be changed for the build to continue and it continued building.... Now I have the latest version of OpenClaw running on Node 22 on my 5 year old Jetson Nano running Ubuntu 18 which I cannot upgrade. What they say is all true, it is incredible stuff when it works!

Full story: https://brtkwr.com/posts/2026-03-02-upgrading-openclaw-to-la...

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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Post by brakup »

bwb wrote: post #60

I'm blown away by the comments. This is a cool project someone created with clear warnings about its current state (beta), and the community is being utterly disrespectful. They are building something that many people find useful/fascinating/intriguing/fun. Come on HN.

Why should people find an automated, buggy, risky slopworm for script kiddies that relies on an external slop provider who also gets all your data interesting?

This is the lowest, most boring form of programming.

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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Post by pluc »

SunshineTheCat wrote: post #61

I keep reading folks saying OpenClaw has completely changed their life while posting a picture of 58 mac minis on their desk. But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, Zapier, Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade), or something simple you could make yourself. It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated…

It's the novelty of the technology. You can easily be amazed at the apparent magic of AI. I think this is what most people are using AI for so far. There's lots of "they were so eager to do that they never asked if they should" energy out there. It's also most of what AI can do, so hopefully the amazement wears off soon.

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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Post by yoyohello13 »

SunshineTheCat wrote: post #61

I keep reading folks saying OpenClaw has completely changed their life while posting a picture of 58 mac minis on their desk. But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, Zapier, Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade), or something simple you could make yourself. It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated…

These people with 58 mac mini's have made several competitive products in production right... right?
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