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Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by SunshineTheCat »

I see a decent number of people on social media who won't stop posting about how great it is and how much of a moron every person is for not using it.

Oddly enough, rarely, if ever do they say what specific things they're using it for and how it's saving them time.

I remain interested in it, however, I've still awaiting an actual use case that can't be handled by some other tool/service that does it better/faster.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by lyfeninja »

SunshineTheCat wrote: post #2

I see a decent number of people on social media who won't stop posting about how great it is and how much of a moron every person is for not using it. Oddly enough, rarely, if ever do they say what specific things they're using it for and how it's saving them time. I remain interested in it, however, I've still awaiting an actual use case that can't be handled by some other tool/service that does it better/faster.

I see a lot of the same. I do know a couple people who do use it and I asked their take and it was kind of "meh".

I'm letting it mature a little before dipping my toe in. I've seem some horror stories, like it deleting repos, system files, and whatnot.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by samxli »

Tried it in the earlier days and it performed badly. I didn't give it free reign on my computer due to obvious security concerns so sandboxed it to a docker container instead. I think for a lot of tasks it's probably more trouble to set this up than to just DIY it.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by XTXinverseXTY »

I noticed that Clawdbot’s initial acolytes seemed to skew towards solo founders and hustler/grifter types. The Mac minis were likely to spam leads over iMessage. The single top downloaded skill was for Twitter. The fastest way to monetize an openclaw agent is by spamming fake social proof for your product (including for openclaw itself).

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by chrisjj »

SunshineTheCat wrote: post #2

I see a decent number of people on social media who won't stop posting about how great it is and how much of a moron every person is for not using it. Oddly enough, rarely, if ever do they say what specific things they're using it for and how it's saving them time. I remain interested in it, however, I've still awaiting an actual use case that can't be handled by some other tool/service that does it better/faster.

> I see a decent number of people on social media who won't stop posting about how great it is

People? Or bots.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by therealmarv »

I saw some non-technical people automating or creating small great tools with it which they need for their profession. These people are not programmers.

I think everybody who has basic understanding of programming and deployment better should stick to some AI coding agent like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode etc etc.

I don't think I'm missing out by not using OpenClaw & Co.

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