alt Hacker News> 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.
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> every company has someone monitoring HN like a hawk.
Monitoring specific user accounts or keywords? Is this typically done by a social media reputation management service?
Do you think that it is a good idea to release it first on iOS, announce on HN and Producthunt? How would you do?
On my app the tech is based on running agent generated code on JavaScriptCore to do things like OpenClaw, I’m wrapping the JS engine with the missing functionality like networking, file access and database access so I believe I will not have a problem with releasing it on Apple AppStore as I use their native stack. Then since this stack is also OS, I’m making a version that will run on Linux, the idea being users develops their solution on their device(iOS&Mac currently) see it working and and then deploys on a server with a tap of a button, so it keeps running.