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| Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience? | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2026 | 1 point by cvhc | ai tools | original thread | | ||
I've read many mind-boggling stories from those appeared to be genuine OpenClaw users, like how their assistants (from useful to dramatic) (1) plan a travel and book everything; (2) started a company and build things; (3) entered stock market and lost all the money... Moltbook added more funs. Interestingly, I cannot find a single user of OpenClaw in my familiar communities, presumbly because it takes some effort to setup and the concept of AI taking control of everything is too scary for average tech enthusiasts. I scan through comments on HN, many of which were discussing about the ideas, but not sharing first-hand user experiences. A few HN users who did try it gave up / failed for various reasons: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822562 (burning too many tokens) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786628 (ditto + security implication) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762521 (installation failed due to sandboxing) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46831031 (moltbook didn't work) I smell hype in the air... HN users, have any of you actually run OpenClaw and let it do any things useful or interesting? Can you share your experience? | ||
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Re: $1k/day on tokens - you can also build a local rig, nothing "fancy". There was a recent thread here re: the utility of local models, even on not-so-fancy hardware. Agents were a big part of it - you just set a task and it's done at some point, while you sleep or you're off to somewhere or working on something else entirely or reading a book or whatever. Turn off notifications to avoid context switches. |
There's some good discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838946