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@Baconbrix @maxast Just saw this on YouTube. Looks awesome!! Gonna give it a whirl today. 🙌🏼🙌🏼
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@burkov Serious question. So right now through OpenClaw/Telegram I can get it to check emails, send emails add tasks to Todoist save links to Instapaper and all sorts of productivity automations between the various apps. What other tool can do this?
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I didn't want to comment on OpenClaw. Usually, when there's so much noise in the media, it's some ordinary stuff just hyped well.
So I took time to learn how it works thanks to open source.
I was right. OpenClaw is 2% of ordinary stuff and 98% of hype.
To put it very shortly, in case you were wondering, there are two things in it:
1. You can chat with an LLM via a text messenger. Not anything new.
2. The LLM can use tools that run on your computer. Not anything new either.
Most of the "magic" mentioned in the media is about its ability to use the browser.
But it's not *its* ability. It's Playwright's ability.
Playwright is a library made by Microsoft which allows you to programmatically run a browser. It uses a built-in vision model made by Microsoft that converts the browser's screen into a textual description for LLMs.
Again, Microsoft has built Playwright exactly for what OpenClaw is using it.
So, OpenClaw's typical workflow:
1. The user types in a text messenger "Buy me a flashlight on Amazon."
2. OpenClaw blindly dispatches this message to an LLM which has access to some tools, including Playwright.
3. The LLM, trained not by OpenClaw folks, decides that Playwright is the right tool (of course it is) and Amazon is the URL to navigate to.
4. Playwright, built not by OpenClaw folks, runs the browser, which navigates to Amazon, and returns the textual description of what Amazon's home page looks like.
5. OpenClaw blindly returns to the LLM this textual description.
6. The LLM (again without any help from OpenClaw) decides that one should type "flashlight" into the search field and press Search, so it calls the Playwright tool with the search parameters.
7. OpenClaw calls Playwright because the LLM told it to and types "flashlight" and then presses Search (it's all part of what Playwright does out of the box).
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In the end of this LLM-controlled scenario, the order is submitted. OpenClaw just listened to what the LLM told it to do via tool calls.
I tried hard, and I haven't found anything else worth mentioning in the source code. There's also a part that keeps "memories" about past conversations, but it's all basic stuff. These memories are stored in text files and grep (controlled by LLMs trained to use grep, and trained not by OpenClaw folks) is used to search in them.
It's a nice hobby project, just like Cursor or Perplexity are nice hobby projects, but there's nothing there to look for, except for the hype and 2% of unoriginal plumbing code.
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@measure_plan lol, yeah, if you skip to the end and turn on sound you'll hear it pop 🤣
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@ChardPeters The driver and user apps are done. After getting strung along a few times I gave up on trying to get investors for this and other local services like this.
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@aaronbesson I know it’s a concept eh, but please if y’all launching another rideshare service. Put emphasis on rider verification, our safety is as important as theirs. Can’t be getting robbed and being told we have no info of the account holder cause it was a burner number they used 🫣
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Spent a little time working on the onboarding and I was wondering.. how about completing an exercise for a free month subscription @adamlyttleapps? Have you tried gamified onboarding?
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@stardappa With construction costs at $1000-1500/sqft these days. It’s the kinda the same unless you really cutting costs.
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@workslikejenga Wonder if they’ll make it through review. I’ve had apps rejected for no log out or delete account buttons.
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I generated all the exercise vids in this app using different models on @replicate and got some mixed results (prob do a thread on this sometime). Getting consistent movements, proper form is very difficult. Used maybe $100 trying to get an AI vid for Bicycle kick crunches 😂 still trying.
Aaron@aaronbesson
I’ve been working on a little gamified fitness app to trick myself into working out more in my spare time (which has been limited recently)
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