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Finally shipping an API as my 8th startup at 18 🚀 Here are some of the thoughts I put into it: Problem Making PDFs absolutely sucks for devs. You either need to selfhost browsers, or use existing APIs which either look shit, are expensive or both. Solution Refile is a dead simple, fairly priced & extensible Markdown to PDF API. You can sign up and get an API key in 10 seconds with free plan via Google log in. It's easily self-hostable for enterprise customers & there's a simple API playground with a copy code button. You can literally implement it in 5 minutes with amazing DX. Docs have guides and premade code for tons of platforms. Stack (100% scale-to-zero) - @nextjs + @vercel (site, api, cronjobs, blob storage) - @neondatabase + @authjs + Google OAuth - @polar_sh for payments - Custom-made PDF generation stack I'm using the least dependencies possible (no external auth, Vercel for everything) and keeping the stack as simple as I can. Everything is scale-to-zero so the project will always make a profit or break even. TBD - Marketing (lol) - SDKs - Further integrations (no-code, improving DX) Happy for any feedback!

@___4o____ I think your analysis is a little faulty, Openclaw just ranks higher because it has a lot of normies starring it

Last night I ran my own analysis which flags fake stars based on spam clustering and account activity. Here are some results (% fake): archlinux/archinstall - 0.5% openbsd/src - 0.8% fastapi/fastapi - 3.6% garrytan/gstack - 23.3% openclaw/openclaw - 39%

@alexkehr they will expect 1 person per ticket sold to come on, they always overbook

the american mind (me) cannot comprehend european airline flight prices can i just book all 190 seats for $3400 and have a private 737 flight?

@Dragnmastralex_ @LiteralMem3s S tier rage bait

@LiteralMem3s the rule states that you do the equation from left to right unless there are parentheses then you do what's inside that first. the calculator is not wrong.

GitHub Copilot sub is underrated for this. You get a surprising amount of Claude Sonnet / Claude Opus usage for $40 a month and it supports OpenClaw (+ official OpenCode and Zed support!)

@BenjaminBadejo i mean i don't like the decision either but everybody literally gets to pick between a refund and extra credits - legally they did nothing wrong that chargeback won't go through in a million years

IMPORTANT: Everyone should do credit card chargebacks. This hurts the company much more than mere cancellation. They want you to take the “free” minuscule useless API credit so they can avoid chargebacks and maybe even some, uh, legal difficulties. By taking the offer, you’re essentially saying, “I accept this ‘offer’ in exchange for the modification in service.” Don’t do it. They’re only offering refunds because CC chargebacks harm their relationships with financial institutions and other partners / service providers. They’re only offering a few API bucks because that is *legally* beneficial for them. Harder to be part of a class action if “you took the money.” Which is exactly why you *should* do CC chargebacks instead of requesting a refund — and don’t take the money.

idk - different telegram chats & relying on a botched together still feels inconvenient to me compared to a reasonably well used and tested OSS app that has a single chat and proper memory, cron system etc built in (and i say that as a claude code heavy user). that said I'm also looking into moving my personal agent to claude code now that this is offline - opus is simply the best model. alternatively gh copilot sub.

@emilthemaker @atomtanstudio @remwilcox @ashen_one @bcherny Just ask Claude code to use Claude code channels to set up 5 telegram chats linked to Claude sessions (on your VPS if you have one) and it will one shot it

Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key.

@MarkFeighery1 @atomtanstudio @remwilcox @ashen_one @bcherny Proper integration into telegram, whatsapp etc so you can easily host yours in the cloud and use from your phone Cronjob functionality You can hack these together but OpenClaw comes with them baked in

Name one thing? I promise you there is nothing that open claw can do that cant be done with just your computer and Claude (or codex). Every week my agents research open claw for all new features and every week they confirm my set up is still better with maybe minor additions to adopt good ideas. There's nothing special about open claw. Hell it's open source. Get the repo and ask Claude code to build you a version that will work with whatever features you want

@tobimori @theo tried it but kimi is just not nearly as smart as opus for me

@theo Fireworks Fire Pass

So, uh, what subscription should I be using for my OpenClaw now? 🙃

I think it's the combo of 1) using their outputs & data to train their own models they can offer tons of usage on 2) fully closed loop background agents product that test their work themselves 3) enterprise - the claude/codex enterprise plans are not nearly as attractive and not a fit for enterprise customers. cursor is flexible, self-hostable etc

i don't see how @cursor_ai survives - for $200/mo, you can essentially get unlimited usage on claude / codex that same usage would cost thousands on cursor even if cursor harness is better, the price difference is just wild

"all unsere gesellschaftlichen Werte aufgeben" ist doch ein bisschen polemisch und übertrieben in dem Kontext, oder? Ein Deutsches Startup, das in Deutschland Arbeitsplätze schafft und in Deutschland Steuern bezahlt verrät doch nicht gleich unsere Gesellschaft, weil es gerade niemanden ausbildet Deutschland lebt vom Export, wenn wir nicht global wettbewerbsfähig sind brechen große Teile unserer Gesellschaft zusammen

@TweetsOfSumit Aber die Incentives gibt es doch, es wird halt nicht von den Unternehmen priorisiert. Was hilft uns denn globaler Wettbewerb, wenn wir darin all unsere gesellschaftlichen Werte aufgeben. Und zu denen gehört auch, das wir möglichst allen Leuten eine Ausbildung anbieten sollten.

Berlin wieder ganz vorne mit dabei. 🤦🏽‍♂️

@whatevs1230077 @Joshisforreal @icanvardar damn relax

@Joshisforreal @emilthemaker @icanvardar Ask Grok. Bunch of idjits in here. Find some sunshine, nerds.

still don’t know anyone using openclaw. and still haven’t found a single meaningful use case for it

@vintermust @icanvardar Curious how would you pull these automations off with similar flexibility/usability?

@emilthemaker @icanvardar U don’t need an agent for that

@allynbuilds @FatRustDev @icanvardar If you're talking about the tweet above i genuinely wrote every word of that myself lol, I don't use AI for Twitter

@emilthemaker @FatRustDev @icanvardar Because it makes you sound utterly fake.

@shitpost9000 @icanvardar possible - idk about the memory part you can def pull off something very similar. by the architecture openclaw is not really that different from a remote controlled always on codex agent

@emilthemaker @icanvardar I have a mini PC running the built in cron jobs in Codex that i remotely access to edit stuff I installed OpenClaw on the same computer but it was slower at everything

@abembridgeai @icanvardar I've done tons of n8n work in the past, but this is just so much more flexible to me, it takes most tasks I throw at it and completes them with the tools it has

@emilthemaker @icanvardar Sounds like a few deterministic n8n workflows with AI calls when needed would be more reliable to me. If it's valuable work choose determinism

@steventey me 👋

OK this is genius – using social graph to weed out AI / bot replies Let's give this a try – who can reply to this? 👀

@FatRustDev @icanvardar why?

@emilthemaker @icanvardar cringe

@GamerLXXXVI @TheAIScoutonX @ollama A VPS is not free

@TheAIScoutonX @ollama You can install the same code on VPS. No? For free?

Ollama's Pro plan now has an annual option. For $200/year, you get 2 months free. Power OpenClaw, Claude Code, and more using the best open models with web search.

this is such a bad take, same as focusing on lines of code for productivity