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

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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…

Nice Dropbox comment you made there.

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

#93

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 is ridiculously more expensive and complicated under the hood, technically, but to the user, the sheer convenience of being able to text the computer "hey, when I get an email like X, inform Y and do Z" and that's it, you're done, is unmatched.

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

#95
I tried it today for the first time. The onboarding is okay.

I picked Whatsapp but it ended up using my own account! So it's absolutely too dangerous. We are supposed to create a separate account but with which phone number? I only have one.

So I picked Telegram instead, added it to a group chat, but it was a slog to set the authorizations.

In the end I don't trust it to read my mails for security reasons so I uninstalled it!

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

#97
post #38

I don't believe the activity on this repo is legitimate by any means.

The whole repo must be absolutely swarming with agents, just look at the sheer rate of issues and pull requests. There was 6 new PRs in the last 10 minutes at the time of writing. It's not much of a stretch to assume the stars are also inorganic.

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

#98

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…

What’s cool with Openclaw is that you only have tell it what you want, it figures out how to do it using the tools it have access to.

Okay, can you tell it to cure cancer please

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

#99

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 is ridiculously more expensive and complicated under the hood, technically, but to the user, the sheer convenience of being able to text the computer "hey, when I get an email like X, inform Y and do Z" and that's it , you're done , is unmatched.

What about the convenience of having your whole inbox deleted?

https://www.pcmag.com/news/meta-security-researchers-opencla...

Maybe OpenClaw was just practicing a really aggressive form of Inbox Zero.

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

#100
post #65

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…

Apologies if I missed it while skimming your blog post.

But could you estimate the token cost of this? Or were you able to comfortably do this with a subscription plan?

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