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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 cadamsdotcom »

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…

Why not use Claude to write yourself a daily briefing, and deliver it to your email or someplace you’ll receive it?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by nickthegreek »

eterm wrote: post #235
brtkwr wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve also found it useful for personal stuff. For example I have my OpenClaw bot in a family group on Telegram and everyday it asks my family members stories from their lives that it meticulously documents and uses as a basis for further questions in the future and has so far managed to build a rich family history spanning 50 odd family members (a project I had always been planning to do for never found the time to).

I am weirded out but this, I find it horrific, like some kind of mind zombie, leeching humanity from your family members. Someone somewhere is thinking they're connecting with you and sharing their humanity but they're just shoveling their soul into a machine that is "meticulously documenting" them. Sorry, but ick.

You are making a lot of assumptions.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by kaoD »

eterm wrote: post #235
brtkwr wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve also found it useful for personal stuff. For example I have my OpenClaw bot in a family group on Telegram and everyday it asks my family members stories from their lives that it meticulously documents and uses as a basis for further questions in the future and has so far managed to build a rich family history spanning 50 odd family members (a project I had always been planning to do for never found the time to).

I am weirded out but this, I find it horrific, like some kind of mind zombie, leeching humanity from your family members. Someone somewhere is thinking they're connecting with you and sharing their humanity but they're just shoveling their soul into a machine that is "meticulously documenting" them. Sorry, but ick.

To give a different perspective: archival is important. If nobody does this job, generational knowledge is lost at some point.

I talked plenty with my grandpa, but I'm sure he didn't even tell me 20% of his life.

And my other grandpa died when I was still a kid, so I didn't even get to have adult conversations with him.

Imagine making this available to your grandgrandgrandson.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by Aperocky »

At one point, it was awesome.

then it became bloated.

then I both found and made gateway agent for different tools that does exactly one thing - connect me to the machine and does nothing else.

No, no subagents, no workflows, nothing, just be my gateway agent and the machine itself runs a whole other ecosystem. It is a nice wrapper/replacement on top of SSH, but only that. I don't need an ounce more.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by nickthegreek »

koinedad wrote: post #171
jaybuff wrote: post #159

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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.

minimax 2.7 is great at smaller tasks. I use it for simple subagents and it is capable and I don’t come close to using the quota.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by markstos »

On a couple of different Ghost sites I maintain, I got suspicious sign-ups from travel-related domains that require email verification.

I suspect they might have used OpenClaw to accomplish the email verification step (no evidence) and were setting themselves up for later comment spam.

Even if you aren't using OpenClaw, it may be using you!

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by jesse_dot_id »

I'm waiting for it to produce the most destructive worm in the history of personal computing as soon as someone with a sufficiently large list of e-mail addresses and a zero day prompt injection technique decides they want to create some chaos. Maybe I'll trust if it if we ever see AGI, but if we ever see AGI, chances are I'm not going to need it. So. No.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by aianus »

cogogo wrote: post #247
frankdenbow wrote: post #225

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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?

MyFitnessPal takes a lot of clicks to log one meal, I can just use natural language with openclaw.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by navigate8310 »

nickthegreek wrote: post #252
eterm wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am weirded out but this, I find it horrific, like some kind of mind zombie, leeching humanity from your family members. Someone somewhere is thinking they're connecting with you and sharing their humanity but they're just shoveling their soul into a machine that is "meticulously documenting" them. Sorry, but ick.

You are making a lot of assumptions.

I hope OP is using some self-hosted local model to document their family archives
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