
Most teams quit halfway through setting up OpenClaw.
Not because it's bad. Because nobody told them about the other 40 hours.
Solo dev
- Clone
- Configure
- Chip.
5-person team
- 24-44 hrs setup (auth, RBAC, shared state, monitoring)
- 4-8 hrs/month maintenance forever
- ~$10,400 year-one cost
The trap: you set up a reverse proxy and think auth is done.
It's not. Everyone shares one agent session. No isolation. No audit trail.
The tool is free. The setup is not.
Full breakdown: duet.so/guides/how-to-…
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