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Branding is amazing. In this case with a normal word, it's a sort of network effect? Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, just spoke at YC Startup School. T
by consumer451 2mo ago
Branding is amazing. In this case with a normal word, it's a sort of network effect?
Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, just spoke at YC Startup School. The entire thing is worth a view.
> There are 33,000 "claw" named repositories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whcfSGN6CAU&t=1450s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whcfSGN6CAU&t=1450s
- ex-aws-dude 2mo agoWhat does it mean in general for something to be a “claw”?
- benatkin 2mo agoTo me it's like a creature. A distinguishing feature of OpenClaw is SOUL.md.
- virgildotcodes 2mo agoThe project was originally called clawdbot as it was based on Claude. Pressure from Anthropic made Peter change the name to Moltbot, which everyone thought sounded gross, so he changed it again to openclaw, with a lobster mascot.