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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by dsiegel2275 »

Sajarin wrote: post #31
dsiegel2275 wrote: post #16

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…

What flashcard app are you using? Anki?

I had used Anki for a few years but recently migrated all my cards out of it and into a custom app I built just a few months ago. It is as an Elixir/Phoenix app with a simple UI but also with a rich API for Agent integration.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by ssl-3 »

kaoD wrote: post #253
eterm wrote: post #235

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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.

Yeah, but you're kaoD. You're a bonafide person. You should talk with other people; it's good. (We're chatting right now.)

That's quite different from chatting with a bot that pretends to be human. (Do you want to chat with my bot?)

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by nicksrose7224 »

aianus wrote: post #258
cogogo wrote: post #247

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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.

What is the accuracy of this method vs manual entry?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by dplgk »

Jtarii wrote: post #213
SunshineTheCat wrote: post #85

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No, Dropbox had a defined use case and solved a particular problem. I was a fan of Dropbox when it game out because of that fact. OpenClaw does not serve a particular problem. When/if it does, I will happily use it. But no, the two couldn't be more different. You'll notice, yet again, in your very message you failed to mention one specific use case of OpenClaw. If you asked me the same about dropbox when it first cam…

It gives me a pleasant interface to talk to my desktop from my phone. I can just send my computer a discord message and have it execute some arbitrarily complex task for me.

The question is what wonderful task do you need to trigger while you're at the grocery store?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by alexchantavy »

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…

Great article, thanks for sharing. How much does it run you a month roughly?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by arppacket »

rafram wrote: post #150
mv4 wrote: post #145

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Operations: mostly tasks and reminders, I often think of something while on the road and send a voice message (like I would to a real PA). I use Kokoro-based TTS for local text-to-speech. Anything from "remind me to discuss X with so-and-so tomorrow" to "I have a multiple PoC projects w/ large entities starting next week - think about how I can best handle that" to "brainstorm how can I maximize upfront revenue with…

#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.

#2: Gemini also has scheduled actions. You can just ask it to give you daily digests about developments in some area, or you could even be in the middle of chatting about some current events, and tell it to notify you when there is new data, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by jameson »

Used it for a few days to summarize top 10 hacker news at scheduled time or send me a joke of the day

I liked how easy I can tell it to do something for me but token usage didn't justify the cost. I 'd either had to use smarter model which could cost a lot more or cheaper model which, in one instance, stuck in a loop

Product-wise, it's an awesome tool. Imagine having your own butler for anything except that the reliability with affordable isn't here yet to do anything serious

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by stingraycharles »

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…

This is roughly how I use it as well, except I made it a little bit more proactive and actively chases me whether it should track certain things in OmniFocus and chases me about completing overdue tasks or other things I would otherwise forget.

I keep data collection out of the LLMs. I have separate scripts that push and pull data from external sources. So I don’t need to provide the LLM with auth keys, and the things it can do is very limited.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by stingraycharles »

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 gets confused too often and misses a lot of things. GLM 5.1 is better, closer to a Sonnet style model, but also significantly more pricey.
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