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operatingthetanyesterday at 9:25 PM3 repliesview on HN

None of those things require openclaw. You could accomplish them with something like Google Drive and Claude Code CLI.


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BeetleByesterday at 10:01 PM

> None of those things require openclaw.

OpenClaw was never meant to be a tool that could do things you couldn't do without it.

Also, whenever someone points out you could accomplish something without it, he underestimates the effort needed. In the examples I'm thinking of, someone simply asked OpenClaw to do something, had a few back and forths with it, and it was done. I have yet to see someone say "Oh, I can do that without OpenClaw" and go ahead and do it within 10 minutes.

Not once.

OpenClaw is flawed, but the convenience is an order of magnitude higher than anything else.

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aunty_helenyesterday at 9:37 PM

The difference is I would have to do that myself. It has access to gdrive and cc and does it for me when I send it a message in chat. Sometimes when I’m out I even just send it voicys.

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wormpilledyesterday at 10:10 PM

None of those require Claude Code CLI either, you could develop their workflows with a script (bash, python) and any quality LLM.

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