Meta acquires Moltbook

Post by Skidaddle » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 9:13 PM UTC

px43 wrote: post #148

Skidaddle wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is that utility? (honest question)

It's an extremely active community of humans using agents as proxies to explore various concepts. I get a lot of value out of it, and apparently others do as well. Hacker News users have this weird tendency to outright dismiss anything that doesn't cater to their needs specifically. I think it's pretty obvious that if there was nothing valuable there, no one would be using it.

Post by lobf » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 9:19 PM UTC

wavemode wrote: post #136

jonnat wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People said the same thing when he paid $1B for Instagram, for it to look like a crazy bargain a couple of months later.

Who exactly said that about the Instagram acquisition?

Post by eclipxe » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 9:20 PM UTC

gavinray wrote: post #230

jacobra2 wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO OpenClaw's innovation is in 1) accessibility to non-technical folks. For the first time, they are having the Claude Code experience that we've had as software engineers for some time now 2) shared, community token context. Many end users are contributing to one agent's context together. This has emergent properties

> accessibility to non-technical folks. When I read the setup docs, it required configuring a bunch of API keys in setting files though?

Post by antognini » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 9:27 PM UTC

hedayet wrote: post #180

Acquisition headlines can be some of the most misleading signals in the startup ecosystem, especially acqui-hires masquerading as acquisitions. The posted price rarely reflects what founders actually receive after dilution, investor preferences, and stock vesting are factored in. If you’re a founder, don’t let the acquisition narrative distract you from building a durable business.

Post by firecall » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 9:39 PM UTC

joe_mamba wrote: post #226

lucrbvi wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I share the feeling; but people using it are mostly non-technicals (despite the 50+ config files lol) and are just runing it constantly to do random things. But a message bot + Claude Code/Codex would be the better version

>but people using it are mostly non-technicals Non-technical people haven't even heard of OpenClaw or Github, let alone know how to use and deploy them. Non-technical people don't even know what OS their Samsung or iPhone is called. If you can find something on Github and deploy it on your system, you're part of the technical crowd.