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Posted by ed 1 day ago

OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again(openclaw.ai)
621 points | 312 commentspage 7
guluarte 15 hours ago|
are they vibing the name too?
largbae 19 hours ago||
I am not a user yet, but from the outside this is just what AI needs: a little personality and fun to replace the awe/fear/meh response spectrum of reactions to prior services.
lm28469 21 hours ago||
> Clawd was born in November 2025—a playful pun on “Claude” with a claw. It felt perfect until Anthropic’s legal team politely asked us to reconsider.

Eh? Fuck them it's not like they own the first name Claude?

gausswho 20 hours ago||
I may have been in a French Canadian basement for too long. It isn't pronounced more like "Clode"?
dist-epoch 21 hours ago||
And Apple, Orange or Windows are basic English words. This was discussed and settled a long time ago.
xandyvip 20 hours ago||
seja a maquina de inteligência avançada, e me mostre como ficar rico.
dev_l1x_be 14 hours ago||
It is just matter of time when somebody is going to put up a site with something like AceCrabs, Moltbot Renamed Again! and it is going to be a fake one with crypto stealing code.
Imustaskforhelp 1 day ago||
Okay whether its clawdbot or moltbot or openclaw

Literally the top 2 HN posts are about this. Either it having book, or the first comment on it showing it create religion or now this.

Can we stop all of this hype around Clawdbot itself? Even HN is vulnerable to it.

brikym 22 hours ago||
OpenClaw is now ClosedClaw - Priced from $99/mo for PromptProtectPlus

> Countin me money!

Imustaskforhelp 19 hours ago||
Is this a reference to spongbob squarepants where Mr krabby likes money and clawdbot and everything is a crab too?

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/81ecc732-ee7b-42c3-900b-b97479b...

Hello I'm Mr Krabs and I like money.

xD

esafak 16 hours ago||
https://closedclaw.com/
Imustaskforhelp 16 hours ago||
Wow, they weren't kidding when they talked about closedclaw crazy.

I scrolled down below and found $ curl -fsSL https://closedclaw.com/install.sh | bash

I got curious what the script might be and then tried going to https://closedclaw.com/install.sh and this leads to 404 page not found

Which is so funny because you can't install this software because even in this joke website the software itself is gatekeeped behind enterprise tier xD

This kind of really felt too much funny to me I am sure I am unable to explain it haha but this is actually pretty funny.

Imustaskforhelp 14 hours ago|||
Edit: looked more at openclaw

Its pretty cool fwiw, the author feels nice but the community still has lots of hype.

I now mean this comment to mean that I am not against clawdbot itself but all the literal hype surrounding it ykwim.

I talked about it with someone in openclaw community itself in discord but I feel like teh AI bubble is pretty soon to collapse if information's travelling/the phenomenon which is openclaw is taking place in the first place.

I feel like much of its promotions/hype came from twitter. I really hate how twitter algorithmic has so much power in general. I hope we all move to open source mastodon/bluesky.

zombot 22 hours ago||
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popalchemist 1 day ago||
How to annoy and alienate your target audience in 2 short weeks.
zombot 22 hours ago|
It took them so long? That doesn't look good for the audience. A bunch of vibecoded slop full of security holes should annoy faster.
villgax 1 day ago||
Hilarious to see the most pointless vibecoded slop written to interact with an RDP server. Unnecessary introduces loopholes.
yieldcrv 1 day ago||
amateur hour, new phase of the AI bubble

reminds me of Andre Conje, cracked dev, "builds in public", absolutely abysmal at comms, and forgets to make money off of his projects that everyone else is making money off of

(all good if that last point isn't a priority, but its interrelated to why people want consistent things)

cactusplant7374 20 hours ago|
The developer of this project is already independently wealthy.
yieldcrv 16 hours ago||
I’m aware, I don’t expect any crash outs and rage quits, so that’s where he’s different from Andre
ChrisArchitect 1 day ago|
Right now I'm just thinking about all the molt* domains..... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ricardo81 1 day ago|
I think (not really sure) there's still a 5 day grace period when you buy domains, at least for gTLDs.
esskay 21 hours ago|||
Technically there is, it's mostly used by the worst domain registrars that nobody should be using, like GoDaddy to pre-register names you search for so you can't go and register it elsewhere.

Most registrars don't allow, nor have the infrastructure in place to let you cancel within the 5 day grace period so don't offer it and instead just have a line buried in their TOS to say you agree its not something they offer.

ripped_britches 1 day ago|||
Is that for real? Sounds like an abuse vector
ricardo81 1 day ago|||
It was, on both counts but perhaps it's changed. Search for "domain tasting"
esskay 21 hours ago|||
it is an abuse vector, GoDaddy use it on domain they deem valuable. If you use their site to check a domains availability they'll often pre-reg it, forcing you to buy it through them or they'll just register it and put it up for auction.

It's why you do not, ever use GoDaddy, they are an awful company.

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