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

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Post by dyauspitr »

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…

> 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.

What are you talking about? In openclaw you literally type out basic English instructions to an agent. This isn’t painstakingly setting up chron jobs and writing scripts.

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

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

blenderob wrote: post #147

Look at the graph - https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=facebook/react,opencl... React and Linux got their 200K stars slowly but surely over 10 years. OpenClaw got their 200K stars in like 3 months! Is this any meaningful comparison? Getting 200K stars today doesn't mean much because today stars can be bought. There's a big shady thriving business of selling stars. Stars today can be generated using swarm of thoug…

The first use case of OpenClaw is…

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

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Post by e40 »

UqWBcuFx6NV4r wrote: post #307
latexr wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade) Two decades! It will be 20 this April. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automator_(macOS) Though technically it’s deprecated in favour of the clusterfuck of bugs and limitations that is Shortcuts. But you’re right, OpenClaw seems to be another fad being used mostly by “influencers” and “thought leaders” to show how awesome and productive they are at… Writing bl…

I tried making a very simple Shortcut the other week and gave up after over 2 hours. I even resorted to reading the docs, which revealed absolutely nothing.

I have tried several times to automate tasks with it and have failed all but one time, but that only worked briefly. It stopped working a few hours later. I resolved to never waste time on that POS again.

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

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Post by bastadanii »

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…

my friend just created a bot with OpenClaw to go through Linkedin messaging possible hiring companies. He had 6 interviews scheduled the first day. that's the only use case I heard so far that was compelling. Im not a dev, but pretty sure you could do that with other tools too.

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Post by bfeynman »

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…

openclaw while cool just allowed a larger tranche of technophiles who didn't necessarily have all the skills/understanding or time to do a bunch of things that have been readily available for like over 1.5 years. There is value in that, but there is huge surge in the number of people who are even able to take advantage of the novelty. Reminds me of when hugging face came out with transformers and all of a sudden you no longer needed to wrestle with anaconda and order of installation for all the deps.

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Post by hamelcubsfan »

theshrike79 wrote: post #335
hamelcubsfan wrote: post #317

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Quick terminology question… when you deploy one of these in OpenClaw, is the official term “agent”? I’ve seen the project name, but I’ve never been quite sure what the canonical noun is for a running instance. Are they actually called “claws”, or is that just me over-literalizing the branding? Very curious

Agents usually refer to "coding agents" but they need a human in the loop. What makes Claws Claws is that they run automatically without human intervention, BUT they're built around an Agent =) It's like if you could tell Claude Code that "at 8am tomorrow morning check the weather at my current location and send me a Telegram message". It doesn't know how to wait until 8am, it'll just do it. Or it'll create some mass…

Thanks for this! I completely get how these "claws" work and have a few... they're super useful for specific things. I’m simply curious about the accurate or, more importantly, adopted terminology, as I've dug rather deep and have yet to find anything concrete. "Claw" it is...

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

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Post by arewethereyeta »

pclark wrote: post #289
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…

Ok, I'll bite and run the HN skepticism guantlet. I have an OpenClaw setup with a Claude API token and Qwen local model, running on an M4 Mac Mini with 32GB RAM. 1. At 7AM and periodically throughout the day it checks my calendars (work, parenting schedule, personal), a hyper local weather station, and some specific news topics — and sends me a summary and throughout the day updates if anything significant happens. 1…

friends are emailing this dude to schedule evening video game sessions

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Post by brtkwr »

Tadpole9181 wrote: post #245
brtkwr wrote: post #65

I got OpenClaw to compile Node from source on my old Jetson Nano so that I can run OpenClaw natively instead of using Bun. It took 30 hours but it did it by spinning up a tmux session for the build and using a cron to monitor the tmux pane every hour and even fixing a failure at 5 am which I would have had to find out later had crashed but it had actually found what needed to be changed for the build to continue and…

What do you mean "run OpenClaw natively", you're just running Node? I'm also curious if it's particularly wise to have a web-facing system running on software that hasn't had a security update in 3 years?

I do have Expanded Security Maintenance enabled on the jetson nano, its just that Nvidia is not providing newer major versions but since its a LTS, its still receiving security updates.

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

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Post by tacet »

mikeocool wrote: post #170

This sort of highlights the meaninglessness of GitHub stars? React has been around for over a decade, and in that time pretty significantly impacted web dev paradigms (along with a few other mediums). It’s hard to imagine being a web developer today and not knowing at least some react. OpenClaw has been around for like a few months? And maybe it’s on its way to having that sort of impact? But right now seems to he mo…

There are youtube skits about openclaw. It is discussed in techy podcasts and i think it was mentioned in 404 as well.

It's popular because people are exploring "what can i do with compute" once again. React is as meaningless as tickless kernels for vast majority of people.

Should be noted that i am not using any claws. Just a person remembering people spending their nights programming all sorts of psychedelic displays in qbasic with some moving on to asm. Asm for fun.

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

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Post by pclark »

vor_ wrote: post #321
pclark wrote: post #289

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Ok, I'll bite and run the HN skepticism guantlet. I have an OpenClaw setup with a Claude API token and Qwen local model, running on an M4 Mac Mini with 32GB RAM. 1. At 7AM and periodically throughout the day it checks my calendars (work, parenting schedule, personal), a hyper local weather station, and some specific news topics — and sends me a summary and throughout the day updates if anything significant happens. 1…

> It disappoints me that technologists are so skeptical of this technology rather than exploring what it is and why it might be different to what exists today. It's fun! thats the takeaway: it's FUN. It's most likely fun for you because it's novel, and for a lot of skeptics, AI novelty has long worn off.

I work in AI, I have used OpenClaw since it came out.
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