Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

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4 months ago

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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