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I really don't understand the fascination with openclaw. Can only assume it's mostly just guerrilla marketing spam.
Have you tried it?
The only thing I can think of this doing "usefully" for people is spamming social media.
The high friction things I'd want automated are precisely the things I'd worry it would fuck up.
There's not a lot of middle ground.
I really don't understand the fascination with openclaw. Can only assume it's mostly just guerrilla marketing spam.
can someone explain openclaw/nanoclaw use cases to me? I also do not understand the uses right now. Are we just grasping at usefulness ?
1. When I get a weekly Scarecrow Video pre-order email, extract a list of movies and use my Letterboxd rating history to determine which of them might be interesting to me. Let me know what I should pay attention to.
I tested this on five of the pre-order emails I had sitting around; it was useful for attention conservation.
2. On a daily basis, check Beacon Cinema's list of upcoming movie series and send me a note if there's a new one.
So useful that when I turned off openclaw, I vibe coded a general purpose RSS bridge (yeah, I know about the PHP one and the existing Python ones) and added a scraper for the Beacon page.
My general paradigm, which is not the only available paradigm, is that the claws are strongly useful as information filters. The risk is that they filter out the wrong thing, of course.
I really don't understand the fascination with openclaw. Can only assume it's mostly just guerrilla marketing spam.
can someone explain openclaw/nanoclaw use cases to me? I also do not understand the uses right now. Are we just grasping at usefulness ?
Interesting! I still wouldn't give to any claw access to my mail accounts, but it is a step in the good direction. I love how NanoClaw is aggregating the effort of making personal assistants more secure. Good job!
I don't get the idea of giving a claw access to your own mail account, but am now playing with the idea of it having its own email account that I selectively forward to - that offers almost the full benefit, with significantly less risk.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried it?
What do you use it for? The only thing I can think of this doing "usefully" for people is spamming social media. The high friction things I'd want automated are precisely the things I'd worry it would fuck up. There's not a lot of middle ground.
Have you tried it?
I've listed how I've used it in several threads in the past - you can see my comment history. I tired of doing it every time this question comes up, because it usually becomes clear that the person asking has a very little understanding of its capabilities, and is going by mostly sensationalist reports (either reports of "Oh my God this is life changing" or "Oh my God you'll lose all your mail/money").
There is a (boring) middle ground, as will be obvious to anyone who spends a few days with it.
Or is that a man in the middle "attack". And users have to install a certificate?