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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by koinedad »

jaybuff wrote: post #159
lexandstuff wrote: post #116

I still use it and find it helpful. My OpenClaw instance uses an Obsidian project as its memory. Mainly, it's just my main day-to-day LLM that I access via WhatsApp, but instead of the memory being locked away with a specific vendor, it's stored in version control that I can read and edit. That reason alone makes it compelling to me. When a better LLM comes along, I can just switch, and my memory and system prompts c…

I used it very similarly to you, but found it to be about $3.50 per day, or $100 a month. It wasn't worth that.

My minimax has liberal usage at $10 per month, if you’re not looking for some amazing model.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by BeetleB »

jimbokun wrote: post #132
BeetleB wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "That's great, but it would have taken the same amount of effort to ask your LLM to write a script to do the same thing As a no-longer-Claw-user, hard disagree. The convenience is being able to ask it to do something while I'm grocery shopping and have it automatically test it etc. Sure, I can set up Claude Code or some other tool similarly, but the majority of us aren't going to take the time to set it up to do wh…

Such as?

Lots of simple one offs. Stuff like "Here's the URL for a forum thread that has 10 pages of messages. Go through all of them and tell me if information X is in there." Or "Here is the site to after school activities. Check it once a day and notify me if there is anything that begins in March."

Also, got it to give me the weather information I always want - I've not found a weather app that does it and would always have to go to a site and click, click, click.

I can add TODOs to my todo list that's sitting on my home PC (I don't have todos on the cloud or phone).

All of these can be vibe coded, but each one would take more effort than just telling OpenClaw to do it.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by sayYayToLife »

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.

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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by jpfaraco »

bigpapikite wrote: post #84

I don't personally know many people who've used it so I'm not sure if this was a me thing but here was my experience in short: I set up OpenClaw on a raspberry pi 4 that I could ssh into using my main computer. My main goal for using OpenClaw was just as a morning debriefer that could scan my google calendar, trello board, and gmail to let me know what I had happening for the day and also weekly to give me a forecast…

Interesting. How's the performance on the Pi? I also have a Pi 4 running a few containers and thought about running Openclaw on it, but never got around to it because of performance concerns. I ended up installing Nullclaw which is simpler but much more lightweight.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by LelouBil »

lexandstuff wrote: post #116

I still use it and find it helpful. My OpenClaw instance uses an Obsidian project as its memory. Mainly, it's just my main day-to-day LLM that I access via WhatsApp, but instead of the memory being locked away with a specific vendor, it's stored in version control that I can read and edit. That reason alone makes it compelling to me. When a better LLM comes along, I can just switch, and my memory and system prompts c…

That's exactly what I want to use it for, thanks for writing an article about it !

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by hamasho »

bigpapikite wrote: post #84

I don't personally know many people who've used it so I'm not sure if this was a me thing but here was my experience in short: I set up OpenClaw on a raspberry pi 4 that I could ssh into using my main computer. My main goal for using OpenClaw was just as a morning debriefer that could scan my google calendar, trello board, and gmail to let me know what I had happening for the day and also weekly to give me a forecast…

Do you just give your Google account to OpenClaw, or create a separate account with limited permission? I'm worried that OpenClaw decides to create an entire website on GCP project without asking if they see a message like "have you already developed and deployed the management dashboard?"

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by birdsongs »

zsiddique wrote: post #118

I still use it but totally not the "This one trick will supercharge your profits" kind of way. I do use it to handle task for me for a non profit I sit on the board like handle incoming emails and execute tasks I want to delegate but honestly could have had any our AI agent handle it. There was some manual task I told myself I would automate but never got around too, Openclaw made is just easier to prompt it in to be…

> I do use it to handle task for me for a non profit I sit on the board like handle incoming emails

Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm genuinely curious but also a bit in shock. Do you really let an AI agent autonomously handle and respond to incoming board-level emails for you?

I feel often I'm behind the times, but this makes me feel way behind the times. I still haven't picked up AI into my daily life.

How do you know what the emails said, action items, who's communicating what to you? Do you trust it to handle and make decisions for you that are nuanced and in alignment with you?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by raincole »

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.

Yes. OpenClaw is (weirdly) tangled with anime/gaming culture in China.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by osculum »

jaybuff wrote: post #159
lexandstuff wrote: post #116

I still use it and find it helpful. My OpenClaw instance uses an Obsidian project as its memory. Mainly, it's just my main day-to-day LLM that I access via WhatsApp, but instead of the memory being locked away with a specific vendor, it's stored in version control that I can read and edit. That reason alone makes it compelling to me. When a better LLM comes along, I can just switch, and my memory and system prompts c…

I used it very similarly to you, but found it to be about $3.50 per day, or $100 a month. It wasn't worth that.

Couldn't you use it with a Codex subscription? Plus is $20 per month

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by mv4 »

Rzor wrote: post #153
rafram wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

#1 is just Siri/Google Assistant with extra steps (and expense). #2 could be a scheduled task (cron job or something higher level) that calls a plain old AI provider API. IIRC most providers can even do those natively now.

Your comment reminds me of the FTP/Dropbox one.

I mentioned the same thing and it's getting downvoted lol
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