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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

#21

I have it installed on an extra macbook pro that I had available. I'm really only using it at the moment for one use case: Nightly, I have OpenClaw pull the latest changes from a private GitHub repo that is my Obsidian notes vault. It then looks to see which new notes have been added and then runs a "create flashcard" skill to extract and author useful flashcards for spaced-repetition practice. I then gave it access…

very cool :)

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

#24

I have it installed on an extra macbook pro that I had available. I'm really only using it at the moment for one use case: Nightly, I have OpenClaw pull the latest changes from a private GitHub repo that is my Obsidian notes vault. It then looks to see which new notes have been added and then runs a "create flashcard" skill to extract and author useful flashcards for spaced-repetition practice. I then gave it access…

Im curious can't your use case be done with Github self hosted runner ?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

#25

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.

That's pretty much where I'm at with it.

I think once I see someone post a use case that I could actually see saving me some serious time, I'll take the plunge. Until then, I'll just let people continue to say how great (or terrible) it is.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

#26

I have it installed on an extra macbook pro that I had available. I'm really only using it at the moment for one use case: Nightly, I have OpenClaw pull the latest changes from a private GitHub repo that is my Obsidian notes vault. It then looks to see which new notes have been added and then runs a "create flashcard" skill to extract and author useful flashcards for spaced-repetition practice. I then gave it access…

You should ask claude code to write a bash script that does this for you. Then run that as a Cronjob every night. You might not need any inference at all to create the flash cards so it would be free.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

#27
Personally, better way to phrase might be "Does anybody you've actually met, visually viewed, use OpenClaw? Can you verify them using the software nearby?"

In a few years, it's become so easy to falsify articles, falsify comments, falsify images, difficult to really even trust responses online anyways. As far back as 2016, Microsoft already had bots deployed online that could respond 96,000 times [1] in 16 hours all over social media. Remember Tay? [1][2]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

Even official government responses.

The British Royal family went to falsification immediately. [3] Note child's broken fingers bent sideways (lower left, didn't even get circled)

[3] https://inews.co.uk/news/signs-princess-kate-royal-family-ph...

The White House is posting altered arrest images of people. [4]

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/white-house-...

Can't trust this stuff much anymore. Obvious caveat with this post.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

#28

Yes, at our company we are using it very extensively. I genuinely believe we're near the forefront of usage. We have multiple isolated OpenClaw instances serving as employee within Slack.

What does your company do and what do the open claw agents do?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

#29
post #19

No it's slop and most of the hype was manufactured marketing. It has 0 utility, and any perceived utility you can build yourself easily

I think the issue for our community is we will just create a LLM wrapper app in a few minutes to solve what we need making OpenClaw have 0 utility.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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post #24

I have it installed on an extra macbook pro that I had available. I'm really only using it at the moment for one use case: Nightly, I have OpenClaw pull the latest changes from a private GitHub repo that is my Obsidian notes vault. It then looks to see which new notes have been added and then runs a "create flashcard" skill to extract and author useful flashcards for spaced-repetition practice. I then gave it access…

Im curious can't your use case be done with Github self hosted runner ?

Or, like, a cron job.
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