OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

Post by toinewx » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 4:34 PM UTC

AbraKdabra wrote: post #113

toinewx wrote: post #95

I tried it today for the first time. The onboarding is okay. I picked Whatsapp but it ended up using my own account! So it's absolutely too dangerous. We are supposed to create a separate account but with which phone number? I only have one. So I picked Telegram instead, added it to a group chat, but it was a slog to set the authorizations. In the end I don't trust it to read my mails for security reasons so I uninst…

> I picked Whatsapp but it ended up using my own account! So it's absolutely too dangerous. We are supposed to create a separate account but with which phone number? I only have one. You're joking right?

Post by steve1977 » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 4:35 PM UTC

SunshineTheCat wrote: post #61

I keep reading folks saying OpenClaw has completely changed their life while posting a picture of 58 mac minis on their desk. But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, Zapier, Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade), or something simple you could make yourself. It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated…

Post by OpenWaygate » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 4:36 PM UTC

jsheard wrote: post #38

root_axis wrote: post #28

I don't believe the activity on this repo is legitimate by any means.

The whole repo must be absolutely swarming with agents, just look at the sheer rate of issues and pull requests. There was 6 new PRs in the last 10 minutes at the time of writing. It's not much of a stretch to assume the stars are also inorganic.

Post by throwaway6977 » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 4:42 PM UTC

kandros wrote: post #73

SunshineTheCat wrote: post #61

I keep reading folks saying OpenClaw has completely changed their life while posting a picture of 58 mac minis on their desk. But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, Zapier, Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade), or something simple you could make yourself. It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated…

Patterns i keep seeing: Once you get the dopamine hit of having an ai assistant do something in the real world it becomes an hammer you want to use on everything Instead of being a problem solver you start to become a problem hunter, and you invent them in order to solve them

Post by Antipode » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 4:42 PM UTC

miroljub wrote: post #139

latexr wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about the convenience of having your whole inbox deleted? https://www.pcmag.com/news/meta-security-researchers-opencla... Maybe OpenClaw was just practicing a really aggressive form of Inbox Zero.

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