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combobytetoday at 3:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

It was originally called "OpenClaude" before Anthropic told them to knock that off. Pretty sure "OpenClaw" was eventually picked just to be petty.


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mkltoday at 5:33 PM

No, it was Clawdbot, then Moltbot, then OpenClaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenClaw. It had the "claw" related lobster theme from early on.

_0ffhtoday at 4:01 PM

Maybe coupled with a nod to manus-mania?