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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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Why does it have to be black and white? Why can't a bot do the exploration and notetaking along with people in the channel?

That's not how I interpreted it as being in this instance, but it could certainly be that way. I guess that'd be like keeping all correspondence in a shoe box (to be reviewed later -- or maybe never), or maybe the automated recording of my phone calls with others (which is completely legal where I am; I don't even have to tell them). And I suppose whether I felt that would be creepy or not depends a lot upon intent,…

It is really easy to way over think, or over feel, AI.

Sometimes it's just a really good interface that matches the task well.

Think of all the people that still avoided getting a computer a decade or two ago, because "online" was so unnatural and creepy to them. Obviously, the internet had and has those places. And frankly a lot of social media still is.

But it can also just be wikipedia, making flight reservations, etc. When that is all it is doing, what you want it to do, that is all it is.

An automated language interface can just be a really good note collector/collator.

Personally, I look forward to the wise, well dressed, well spoken, waist-up robot bartenders we have been promised by movies for decades. Not creepy at all!

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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.

Btw my family know they are talking to the bot and they know that the bot is taking notes for our benefit. And I am in the channel and I enjoy reading those stories myself and would have never thought to ask those questions myself. Sometimes I ask the follow up questions myself too...

hi, cool use-case! Question: do they have to type it, or one can upload an audio (old people such as me may talk for 5mins about a mini-story vs typing for 20mins, especially if they use a phone vs windows telegram application (typing on a keyboard vs the smartphone). in which case, do you got a STT 'module' that will pick up the audio, transcribe it, and then 'process' it?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Tbh I had the same reaction. I keep seeing OpenClaw mentioned here and there but nobody I actually know is using it.

feels like it might be one of those tools living in a very specific niche and if you’re not in that bubble you just never run into it.

Would love to hear if anyone’s actually relying on it day to day vs just trying it out once.

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I see a decent number of people on social media who won't stop posting about how great it is and how much of a moron every person is for not using it. Oddly enough, rarely, if ever do they say what specific things they're using it for and how it's saving them time. I remain interested in it, however, I've still awaiting an actual use case that can't be handled by some other tool/service that does it better/faster.

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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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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?

Not even close. I use all of them. My claw has max context (i maintain a personal-wiki of all my projects) and does the best job. The next best thing is Claude cowork. I use chat windows of claude.ai or chatgpt only when researching general topics, not specific ones.

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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…

> my claw agents debate with me I don't really want an imaginary friend. (Or intrusive thoughts either.)

AI is not conscious - its neither imaginary nor friend. It's a tool, like a knife that can cut an apple for me. Except this tool can generate text. Homo-habilis discovered tools 2.4 million years ago - let's keep it going.

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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.

I talk to my desktop from my phone by having termux opened to a persistent tmux session that's sshed in to the desktop over tailscale. I have Claude running in the persistent session. It's 1 tap to open the termux app and I type my commands into a Claude session running in yolo mode. What am I missing here that would need one of these claw agents?
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