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

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Post by ffsm8 »

hmokiguess wrote: post #133

Who are these people? I was skeptical at first and seriously thinking surely not the software engineers out there as we see in HN how risky and wild this is. Then, to my surprise, a coworker came and told me they were running it and happy with that setup. I was baffled, but I work with Gen Z in a pretty niche Gen Alpha market, so I kinda feel like they’re somewhat more likely to go for these things. What’s your exper…

If I could use it at my day job, I'd do it within a heartbeat - albeit only with readonly access (with write only on it's own files/output/sandbox)

There are so many mails and communications with so many tasks to research via confluence etc

But on my private hardware? Idk, I haven't found a use for it...

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

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Post by iceflinger »

siva7 wrote: post #151
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…

The old dudes had something they called the "Eternal September" like when ISPs began providing free internet access and discussion culture declined after forever. I starred this thread here as the start of the "Eternal March" when the open internet died forever.

Eternal March already happened in 2020.

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

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Post by rubslopes »

Anon1096 wrote: post #136
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…

Can't believe that I haven't seen the obvious answer, that OpenClaw is simply more fun to use. Sure, you MAY be able to do what OpenClaw does through 5 other dedicated tools, but you are going to take way longer to do so with a ton more drudge work. And above all else: it is extremely enjoyable to talk to the computer in normal language and just have stuff happen. And it's got a personality that you can tweak to your…

My experience also. I could manually connect my Obsidian notes to my AI, sure, but what I did instead was writing "Obsidian just released a CLI headless sync tool, install it so we can use it" and in a minute it came back with "Ok, everything installed, I just need your login and password."

Dangerous? Yes, very, but it truly feels like living in the future. Surprisingly, it's even more fun that sci-fi movies made me think this would be.

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

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Post by crumpled »

blenderob wrote: post #147

Look at the graph - https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=facebook/react,opencl... React and Linux got their 200K stars slowly but surely over 10 years. OpenClaw got their 200K stars in like 3 months! Is this any meaningful comparison? Getting 200K stars today doesn't mean much because today stars can be bought. There's a big shady thriving business of selling stars. Stars today can be generated using swarm of thoug…

I agree with your point, and am only responding to the last sentence.

Starring can be useful to the starer. They are just counted because it is countable. Whether you find the number meaningful remains up to you.

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

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Post by theshackleford »

BeetleB wrote: post #216
latexr wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So ... don't give it write access to your email? As I said elsewhere, complaining about this is like complaining that rm can let you delete your hard drive. It's a tool. Learn how to use it.

> As I said elsewhere, complaining about this is like complaining that rm can let you delete your hard drive.

rm won't wipe my HDD on a whim whilst instructing it to do something totally different.

You pretending they are the same thing is disingenous.

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

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Post by recursive »

AbraKdabra wrote: post #113
toinewx wrote: post #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 uninst…

> 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. You're joking right?

What would the joke be? I haven't touched OpenClaw and probably won't. I use WhatsApp lightly, but it seems like it requires a distinct phone number, used as an account identifier. So for the benefit of those of us not immersed in this scene, could you elaborate?

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

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Post by LanceJones »

Sharlin wrote: post #215
skeledrew wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or you're just missing the generally wide appeal of the project.

There just aren't enough hobbyists in the world running local AI models, never mind technically savvy enough to hack something like OpenClaw and be really excited about it. For a comparison, the local image gen interfaces ComfyUI and A1111 WebUI have a huge amount of stars (~100k and 160k respectively, accrued since 2022 or so), but they allow you to create porn customized to whatever kinks you have , not just automa…

There's no need to run local models with OpenClaw. I use Anthropic's oAuth Max20 Plan subscription via their SDK...

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

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Post by echoangle »

throwaway13337 wrote: post #249

The stars are probably legitimate. It's weird that most people in these comments are speculating fraud. Why aren't companies with real money to gain from stars gaming the system to the same degree? Why do the other metrics - issues and pull requests - match up with its popularity? Why would the bots starring the repo mean that those same bots are not popular? Those bots are controlled by their users. The project is e…

> Why aren't companies with real money to gain from stars gaming the system to the same degree?

How are you gaining money from stars? Why would Facebook bot stars for the react repo?

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

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Post by rush86999 »

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…

Everyone is using OpenClaw for personal productivity, but you're right. Not much value, as you can get that from existing products.

The market will eventually realize the business case for an OpenClaw-like product, and I'm waiting to ride its coattails!

https://github.com/rush86999/atom

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