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Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

#61

I’m out of the loop clearly on what clawdbot/moltbot offers (haven’t used it)- I’d love a first hand explanation from users for why you think it has 70k stars. I’ve never seen a repo explode that much.

Tried it out last night. It combines dozens of tools together in a way that is likely to be a favourite platform for astroturfers/scammers.

The ease of use is a big step toward the Dead Internet.

That said, the software is truly impressive to this layperson.

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

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This project terrifies me. On the one hand it really is very cool, and a lot of people are reporting great results using it. It helped someone negotiate with car dealers to buy a car! https://aaronstuyvenberg.com/posts/clawd-bought-a-car But it's an absolute perfect storm for prompt injection and lethal trifecta attacks: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/ People are hooking this thing up to Te…

I already feel the same when using Claude Cowork and I wonder how far can the normalcy quotient be moved with all these projects

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently "clawbot" wasn't allowed either: https://x.com/steipete/status/2016091353365537247

A cease and desist doesn't mean you have to stop doing everything it says. It only means you should comply with the law.

You don't want to spend time and money to fight with a $350B company.

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

#65
A pun or homophone (Clawd) on the product you're targeting (Claude) is one of the worst naming memes in tech.

It was horrid to begin with. Just imagine trying to talk about Clawd and Claude in the same verbal convo.

Even something like "Fuckleglut" would be better.

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

#66

I’m out of the loop clearly on what clawdbot/moltbot offers (haven’t used it)- I’d love a first hand explanation from users for why you think it has 70k stars. I’ve never seen a repo explode that much.

It was a pain to set up, since I wanted it to use my oauth instead of api tokens. I think it is popular because many people don't know about claude code and it allows for integrations with telegram and whatsapp. Mac mini's let it run continuously -- although why not use a $5/m hetzner?

It wasn't really supported, but I finally got it to use gemini voice.

Internet is random sometimes.

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

#68

Already seeing some of the new Moltbot deployments exposed to the Internet: https://www.shodan.io/search/report?query=http.favicon.hash%...

Maybe those folks buying Mac Minis to host at home weren't so silly after all. The exposed ones are almost all hosted on VPSs which, by design, have publicly-routable IP addresses.

But anyway I think connecting to a Clawdbot instance requires pairing unless you're coming from localhost: https://docs.molt.bot/start/pairing

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

#69
When I first saw this, my thought was, "Wow, I'm surprised Anthropic hasn't pushed back on their calling it that. They must not know about it yet."

Glad to know my own internal prediction engine still works.

Re: Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

#70

I’m out of the loop clearly on what clawdbot/moltbot offers (haven’t used it)- I’d love a first hand explanation from users for why you think it has 70k stars. I’ve never seen a repo explode that much.

Since there is a market for 5staring or 1staring reviews on review websites, there is probably a market to not-quite-human staring of github projects.
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