alt Hacker NewsIn a WhatsApp group full of doctors, managers, journalist and engineers (including software) in age of 30-60 I asked if anyone heard of openclaw and only 3 people heard of it from influencers, none used it.
But from my social feed the impression was that it is taking over the world:)
I asked it because I am building something similar since some tome and I thought its over they were faster than me but as it appears there’s no real adoption yet. Maybe there will be some once they release it as part of ChatGPT but even then it looks like too early as actually few people are using the more advanced tools.
It’s definitely in very early stage. It appears that so far the mainstream success in AI is limited to slop generation and even that is actually small number of people generating huge amounts of slop.
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> I asked it because I am building something similar since some tome and I thought its over they were faster than me
If you have been working on a usecase similar to OpenClaw for sometime now I'd actually say you are in a great position to start raising now.
Being first to market is not a significant moat in most cases. Few people want to invest in the first company in a category - it's too risky. If there are a couple of other early players then the risk profile has been reduced.
That said, you NEED to concentrate on GTM - technology is commodified, distribution is not.
> It appears that so far the mainstream success in AI is limited to slop generation and even that is actually small number of people generating huge amounts of slop
The growth of AI slop has been exponential, but the application of agents for domain specific usecases has been decently successful.
The biggest reason you don't hear about it on HN is because domain-specific applications are not well known on HN, and most enterprises are not publicizing the fact that they are using these tools internally.
Furthermore, almost anyone who is shipping something with actual enterprise usage is under fairly onerous NDAs right now and every company has someone monitoring HN like a hawk.
> I asked if anyone heard of twitter vaporware and only 3 people heard of it from influencers, none used it.
Shocking results, I say!