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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by easygenes »

random3 wrote: post #206
rnxrx wrote: post #205

I've been using the NousResearch Hermes agent for the past couple of weeks and have to say it's been really good. I tend to hit multiple instances (and accounts)of Claude across three or four machines (between work and personal) and having a competent agent with constant state has been good for memorializing and organizing important info (directly into Obsidian, too), doing some amount of research and planning and it…

how does Hermes compare to SOTA?

They are referring to Hermes Agent, not the Hermes model series. https://github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by at-fates-hands »

I work for a huge company and we've just gotten access to Claude Code and now all the AI folks are pushing super hard to get EIS to open up so they can start using OpenClaw with Claude.

I'm the "internally screaming" meme after having been in several of these meetings where dev teams are pushing for it under the guise of getting better at utilizing AI. "Well, OpenClaw plays extremely well with Claude Code, it could really give our teams a huge boost."

Oy vey the next few months are certainly going to be an adventure!

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by unbolted3032 »

I'm being forced to implement it at my job.

The hype is real. The repository says 5k+ issues and 5k+ prs. There's no way any human being knows what's going on in the codebase. How people trust this to hit their APIs and hang onto their API keys is beyond me.

This is yet another straw on the camel's back; I'm building my industry exit strategy because of AI.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by mynegation »

jeffyaw wrote: post #238
rvz wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> No one can tell me a compelling use case. The whole thing seems designed around getting people to burn more tokens. Exactly. These companies are only hyping openclaw so that we continue to spend hundreds of dollars a day worth of tokens on their infrastructure. That’s why companies like Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google and many others all want you to spend more on tokens on openclaw and they don’t care if it ha…

didn’t Anthropic block open claw usage?

Yes, from using flat rate subscriptions. Everyone is welcome to run it on top of the usage-billed Anthropic API

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by anishgupta »

The main thing why I started using it too late was the slop. it's in the end AI generated, yes it can take your tasks but i never felt in my personal use case how it can help me when it's just generating slop. I used claude cowork more than openclaw after trying once that too in a cloud container since I'm afraid of its security

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by wild_egg »

lostmsu wrote: post #239
ratsimihah wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bought a Mac mini m4 before openclaw to use as a music production machine, when it turned out not to work out I tried setting up openclaw on it after hearing all the noise, but that turned out not to work out either. I’ve found a much better use for it now. I use it as a Tailscale + ssh + tmux + Claude code machine, which gives me an always on Claude code environment with persistent sessions. I ssh from my phone us…

Claude has Dispatch now, which should replace the tmux + CLI for you

That's really not remotely the same thing

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by cogogo »

frankdenbow wrote: post #225
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…

Interested in the calorie tracking (have done amateur bodybuilding). Are you mostly cooking your own meals? Wonder if scanning items and tracking more loosely (a more forgiving myfitnesspal) would be helpful for you? Its on the roadmap of things I'm looking to build for myself (just made this last weekend for buying tovala meals: http://brovala.site )

Why oh why is openclaw an improvement for workouts and calorie tracking?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by mandeepj »

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.

I think it has obscure uses here and there, like this one https://www.reddit.com/r/openclaw/comments/1shutzt/openclaw_...

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by Biologist123 »

littlemishka wrote: post #193
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…

I work on something called Town (town.com) and your morning debriefer is basically a preset workflow we ship out of the box. You connect your Google Calendar and email, flip it on, and it just sends you a daily rundown. No cron jobs, no token tuning, no "I fixed myself" lies. Took us a while to get the reliability right but it genuinely doesn't break every other morning. It's free still for early tester, feel free to…

Well done. This is precisely what the future will look like. I’ve hacked together my own version of this using N8N whereby I feed in tasks via text or photo through telegram and it outputs a to do list. At some point I’ll link it to my personal wiki and then have it action tasks. This was just a fun project, but one design decision is to keep third party services away from commercially sensitive emails.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by mx_03 »

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 find it funny you call it an Obsidian project.

It is just folders and MD files. You are not even locked-in with Obsidian.

Or maybe OpenClaw is reading the graph view?

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