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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by hypercube33 »

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.

I actually think this is cool. How is this different than sitting people down with a camera every day and asking for a new random story? we won't be around forever and documenting it is one way to keep memories alive in people's minds

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by acejam »

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

Why not just use Claude Code's native "Remote Control" feature?

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/remote-control

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by ChadMoran »

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.

Monitors my company's support email, searches though code, GitHub etc to try and triage the issue and shoot me a message to give me a head start.

Connects stripe subscription cancellation with PostHog events to see if something was frustrating.

Does the same leading up to when someone subscribes to describe successful paths.

Lots of novel thinking when events happen on its own being proactive.

Just because people aren't talking about it doesn't mean it isn't useful. Think creatively.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by crysin »

hastily3114 wrote: post #275

If your personal life is so complex that you need to "automate" it, I think you need to reduce complexity instead of throwing an AI at it.

Their lives are probably not that more complex than others. They’re just neurodivergent or too task oriented in how they operate and need that structure to give them comfort and confidence.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by evbogue »

I use it. I think everyone should try the original version out before it gets too muddled so they get the spirit of the thing even if it doesn't end up being the thing -- in a safe space where you know what data you're allowing it to claw thru.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by ryang2718 »

navigate8310 wrote: post #259
nickthegreek wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are making a lot of assumptions.

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

This is actually a really interesting use case for a local model.

The writing might be a bit mediocre but it would capture all the information.

Parent post really stumbled on a great idea here.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by Openpic »

In Japan, it's a product targeted by the Ministry of Information and Communications, and some people without programming knowledge are touching it because it claims to automate things, but for now, I don't want to touch it.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by pama »

causal wrote: post #191
pama wrote: post #143

I use it a lot for personal stuff. Off the top of my head: Best way so far to build and use personalized/family tools for dining/recipe/movie/literature/reminder/organizer/security/notes—-in addition to robust text input, all of them have a voice and image UI via telegram without extra code via an intermediate LLM agent, and all data end up on your machine in your format of choice. More fun than codex/claude-code for…

Thanks for sharing, can you give any specific examples of the kind of personalized tools that you find helpful?

All of the ones I mentioned work great for me. You can dream up your interface and inject technical design ideas and your claw can code it up; as you test it, you fix it if you get new ideas for how it should work.)

For example my recipe project is built around a relatively simple sqlite db. Input for new recipe is in arbitrary format as it goes to an agent (image snapshot on iphone; txt file, speaking it out in a telegram message; a text prompt); the model figures out what to extract and save from the projects’ documents and the context of the specific telegram thread. Output is in whatever form I ask for; rescaled for a number of people; fit in single compact paragraph; or detailed ingredients first then instructions; possibly replace missing ingredients. Query can be arbitrary complex—it almost always finds the recipe I want so far much to my surprise; once I had to followup to select a specific option from a couple ambiguous variants. By default, I like to keep the replies for my recipe queries brief, practical, projected to my cookware. Once I set up this very simple recipe project and imported a couple old datasets, I gave up all of multiple previous recipe schemes (text files or org notes with complex syncing schemes, iPhone apps…)

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by PinkaDunka »

utkarsh_apoorva wrote: post #266

I disagree with practically every take here, and likely will get hate for this message. Personally it has been a huge unlock and here are some specific use cases. 1.Context engineering for “any task”: my claw agents debate with me, and write me files to be picked up by Claude code or Claude cowork to write code/build presentations. 2. Discovering this page: my personal newsfeed that took me 10 mins to setup. Never ha…

Seems like all of this can be done directly with chatgpt and claude? Why add complexity of running claw?
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