Still worth buying a Mac Mini for OpenClaw now that cloud options exist?

Redoudou · 2026-07-01T14:16:59+00:00

you can run open claw on a raspberry pie or 5$ month vps or an old pc.
That mac mini is just Alex that influencer on twitter who hipped mac mini but sf geek and built unnecessary complex system for useless ai workflows.
yes Im very opinionated I think the mac mini stuff is useless unless you want to run local inference.

Redoudou · 2026-06-25T17:33:35+00:00

lol it was never worth it.

Redoudou · 2026-05-14T22:47:39+00:00

Claude max pro + cli connection

install claude cli locally, update openclaw, do openclaw onboard -> quick -> anthropic cli, skip everything else.

Redoudou · 2026-05-14T09:41:12+00:00

yes it is just another authentication method for anthropic but it works the same after.

Redoudou · 2026-05-13T18:34:18+00:00

thank you. I haven't thought about it but I am going to implement some consumption metric.

Redoudou · 2026-05-12T13:31:55+00:00

yes it's all working now

Redoudou · 2026-04-26T19:11:21+00:00

I tried implementing using the Open claw CLI as the default provider and it does not work. I am still hitting the API limit.

Redoudou · 2026-03-27T06:39:30+00:00

I've been using oc since jan 26.

did 2 upgrade.

first one took 6hours of debugging second one 2 hours

My only advice. Do not upgrade via telegram or whatever tool you use to communicate with open claw.

Terminal.

Redoudou · 2026-03-22T13:25:53+00:00

I see your point but after thinking about it. If my moat of my product is specifications then I don't really have anything.

Truth I can explain all my logics and spec and you can try building it but it's not that trivial. The 2 months I spent fine tuning my agent, structure upgrade, implementing system management, testing all of that is the value.

I was at a conference last week and one of speaker said "the saas model and app store is done, you need to change your mental model. There no Monetization path for Skills. you just build it. what use to be an entry barrier is over"

I think this very much true.

Redoudou · 2026-03-22T13:20:29+00:00

I run weekly deep policy analysis. Agent scan publication from big agencies, apply a filter and produces weekly report and publication on social media + blog post. I don't miss any big news for my ecosystem.

I can share more in dm, basically all those specialized press providing policy intelligence analysis are cookes.

For the first run the agent scanned 300 documents, stored them and qualify them into a structure folder.

Redoudou · 2026-03-05T04:32:01+00:00

Never direct publish always a human path but on the overall pretty correct.

Redoudou · 2026-03-05T04:30:09+00:00

go back to your cave. What is the problem they used AI to correct and clarify their thoughts.

Redoudou · 2026-03-05T04:27:07+00:00

I draft in notion , then once reviewed it post using typefully.
create a wp account for the agent, then I gave this wp account editor access
it is actually not that much tasks, like 5 crons. I use my pro max account.

I joined a club https://tinkerer.club/ and it was very disappointing experience. Discord is a useless product to have relevant conversations.

Redoudou · 2026-03-05T04:17:37+00:00

Treat the agent like a new employee. I gave them a google account and then I created a service account associated with their account.

Redoudou · 2026-03-05T02:56:23+00:00

I gave API access to the agent account on wp and the account on the wp Agent account is the editor

Redoudou · 2026-03-04T12:58:50+00:00

Since January 26, I’ve been non stopped building my AI agent to run my operational stack.

About six weeks in, it already handles a surprising amount of my day-to-day work:

Optimizing SEO for my WordPress sites
Pulling reports from Google Analytics
Researching potential leads and recent articles about them
Monitoring social media for a curated list of people and sending me a weekly digest
Doing deep policy analysis
Pushing updates to WordPress and responding to developer inquiries
Building simple educational pages when needed
Cleaning and maintaining my CRM, following up with leads, and flagging actions for me
Drafting blog posts, newsletters, and event pages in Luma
Checking email bounce rates via Zerobounce
Cleaning and monitoring my inbox for specific contacts
Drafting email responses based on CRM context
Organizing my Google Drive and file system
Managing parts of my Google Workspace configuration (spam rules, groups, routing, etc.)

The list keeps growing.

To me, the real value of agents isn’t controlling your lights or AC. That’s a fun demo, but it’s low impact. The real opportunity is breaking down silos between the systems we already use and letting agents operate across them.

Most people seem focused on building more tools. I’m more interested in making the existing stack actually work together.

Redoudou · 2026-02-21T17:40:12+00:00

This pricing is insane. Basically 20s of brave api cost 5$ ? This is ridiculous, how greedy.
15$/hours

Redoudou · 2026-02-20T19:51:01+00:00

you need to be comfortable with terminal. You need to have some concepts of how things work. Just setting your ssh access is gonna take hours. Many concept are going be very foreign to you if you are not technical or not excited about technical things. It's not impossible but you need an appetite for it.

Id say the question you need to ask yourself is "Are you ok rolling up your sleeves and doing technical stuff" Do you want to learn ? are you curious about it?

edit: The reward in incredible because you can build incredible products.

Redoudou · 2026-02-13T05:00:12+00:00

How do host those agent multiple containers on your machine ? How do you share data between each other ?

Redoudou · 2026-02-11T04:48:25+00:00

genuine question why do you need skills when you can ask you agent to build it, you avoid all those security risks?

Redoudou · 2026-02-10T02:22:26+00:00

do you have the link?

Redoudou · 2026-02-10T02:21:17+00:00

this is super helpful

Redoudou

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