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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by markoa »

For me the prerequisite for leveraging openclaw was developing function oriented repositories of markdown files tied to my roles that capture pretty much everything I know about the subject and ongoing work, and working with agents as assistants off of those as context. As a founder, product manager, for growth etc.

From there it’s pretty natural that I wanted to talk to an always on agent not tied to any particular machine which has the same context plus access to google drive etc.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by [deleted] »

valleyer wrote: post #54
razingeden wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>scripting and automation I cringe at my old boss’s handiwork in Claude and power automate sometimes and go “you know I could just do that in a script and a cron job and it would be completely bullet proof, right?” Then he just shoots back with, “yeah but now I don’t have to ask you.” This is my kludge, there are many others like it but this one is mine.

Does the boss not understand that they could get Claude to write them a script and a crontab entry (so they don't have to ask you) -- and then run it forever (so they don't have to pay Anthropic, or risk temperature randomness)? Best of both worlds...

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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by franze »

its my remote control for claude code

it whatsapps me when its done or needs input it can not resolve, i start new session which are then done when i come to my computer

the reasons why i not use it more is tokens costs

yeah i could use a cheaper model for openclaw but then its just stupid

i am trying to run it on gamma next week

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by ge96 »

Kiro wrote: post #103
redact207 wrote: post #39

When I saw Jensen's talk about how Openclaw surpassed React and Linux in terms of GitHub stars within a few months, I knew the whole thing was manufactured bot hype. No one can tell me a compelling use case. The whole thing seems designed around getting people to burn more tokens.

It's massive in China. Search for "raise a lobster" and check out the videos from the events.

Surprising seems like they'd favor Manus

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by cloudking »

Tried it for a few weeks, was really buggy and unpredictable.

Kudos for the concept though, I ended up rolling my own agentic system with Claude Code from scratch that works much more reliably for my use cases.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by aantix »

franze wrote: post #124

its my remote control for claude code it whatsapps me when its done or needs input it can not resolve, i start new session which are then done when i come to my computer the reasons why i not use it more is tokens costs yeah i could use a cheaper model for openclaw but then its just stupid i am trying to run it on gamma next week

Claude Code already has that with channels. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/channels-reference

No need for OpenClaw.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by thatxliner »

I'm planning to set it up as a auto-marketing and user acquisition agent, but I'm also backpedaling on the idea since (1) people can probably easily tell that it's AI (2) that will produce negative reputation as a "slop company" (3) that's feeding into the dead internet theory

So in short, there's not much to do. I don't really have tasks I can just "hand off to OpenClaw"

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