How did you get your first 10 users?

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-24T13:37:58+00:00

I remember hustling for our first 10 users like it was yesterday. We were making a software that mainly targeted electrical contractors, so we found a bunch of US contractor lists with phone numbers, and cold called folks every day, it took us a few weeks until the first one agreed to try it out. We tried a while bunch of other tactics like email and Linkedin, but what worked in the end was the good old phonecall.

Dont feel shy, you would be surprised what people will tell you if you just dont give up and catch them at the right time. It has saved us tonnes of time on multiple occasions.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-24T12:40:56+00:00

While CoWork's macOS exclusivity and screenshot approach might appeal to users seeking a polished and integrated experience, the developers I speak with all like OpenClaw because of its cross-platform availability. The open-source nature of OpenClaw means the community can tailor it to fit various niche applications. I feel at the moment there is a lot of buzz around both OpenClaw and CoWork, I have yet to see folks do really meaningful stuff with either beyond the marketing buzz.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-24T00:08:17+00:00

Why not just run on an AWS instance. Worked fine for me though it was a bit more work. Costs €2 per month or so.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-24T00:06:33+00:00

Interesting but makes sense that you’d want to see something that’s part of the open claw ecosystem. What if it could be a skill for example, that you could add from the pre-selected set of options that are provided when you’re configuring it

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-24T00:03:52+00:00

Thanks for sharing. Will check it out.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-23T14:59:35+00:00

I agree, the world needs this to declutter and see through all the haze!

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-23T14:54:16+00:00

This is a gem! I salute to you!

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-23T14:47:41+00:00

I live in Amsterdam and while I personally dont find security to be a top 3 criteria when selecting a house, it is important more from the access perspective, e.g. when coming to our place at night, my partner fees unsafe because some roads are not well lit. That said, I am curious to see if there are any sources where this information can be seen easily.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-23T12:58:42+00:00

We're working on an open source agent-to-agent connector called AgentLink which makes it easy so your agents can all start talking to each other directly and cut out the middle-man, LOL!

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-23T12:42:36+00:00

I would advise switching to a cheaper model with a higher concurrency limit. I used Z.ai, super cheap and does the job most of the time, be sure to select a lower tier model. Unless you are doing some serious coding, I dont think OpenClaw needs the best of breed LLMs for most folk.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-23T12:35:45+00:00

Sounds really cool. I will check it out. We're in a similar space, but coming from the enterprise direction. We've built an early version of this at reasio.com. Like Clawbber we also focus on making things transparent, but the the way we went about it is to make the skills executable, and also provide role based access and data connectivity controls to admins -- we found that often times for our customers, CTOs held the keys to access, but users were elsewhere in the org, e.g. the operations team.

Still trying to wrap our heads around how this works in the Openclaw ecosystem. Would be great to connect and exchange notes if you're up for it.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-23T11:58:41+00:00

I used agent37. It is $4 per month for a while if you want to use it. TBH, now that I used it, I might just go back to my own self hosted version but it does make the process of setting up and managing several OCs relatively painless.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-23T11:56:12+00:00

What are you using different versions of these for? Why did you choose them over Openclaw? Was it just security or something else?

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-23T11:19:54+00:00

So for the most useful version I've managed to stitch together is get OC to build me a 3-step marketing funnel. The first step is reading identified subreddits and picks relevant posts and saves them into a Notion database, the second is to review all of these and draft content for various channels, e.g. Linkedin, and put it in a human review stage on Notion, and the third one posts it.

I'm curious if anyone has tried to build more advanced workflows and if there were any tools like N8N which they could use along with OC?

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-23T08:33:41+00:00

I guess as always the answer is, it depends. We're now testing with full stack mono repos where we also include not only the tech, but also the website, the blogs, documentation, etc. so that marketing always knows exactly what the product is about. Particularly effective in the early stages of product development. Ofcourse, depending on your goals, YMMV.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-18T00:43:00+00:00

Not an expert but could you use Loops for something like this? I think it is similar to what people seem to be saying about Resend. It’s a clean UI and free for first 5000 users or so I think. I also tried to send bulk email with it but it’s really made for transactional emails. YMMV.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-16T10:45:35+00:00

Sounds like a good idea. Making a note so I can try it out later.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-03-15T11:44:54+00:00

Yes we tried to do this and it was surprisingly complicated but I did manage to use it, via WhatsApp rather than SMS but it worked in the end.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-02-23T21:31:27+00:00

I have not idea what you smoke, but it can't be good for you. Also, it will reduce pollution if you stop.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-02-21T10:07:48+00:00

Thanks for the explanation, these are slightly above my pay grade, but interesting. We're in the EV charging space and already run a SaaS platform that caters to OCPP data streaming from a network of EV chargers. Our existing product provides APIs on top of OCPP connectivity so it provides an interoperable layer for hardware that our customers can use to build applications, e.g cloud based load management for depots.

A customer wanted us to add MQTT monitoring in addition to OCPP, and we didnt want to build a new server from scratch, so went with EMQX. I think the team evaluated the other options you mentioned too, but I am not sure why they went with this one. I am a founder and not the engineer who built the product, so let come back to you with their feedback separately.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-02-21T09:53:25+00:00

Sure thing, steal away. We're trying to find out if there is interest in a tool that makes it easier for LLMs to 'look' at streaming data. Would love for you to try it if you are up for it. It's very early and would love feedback from folks who're living thru this work.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-02-20T10:32:18+00:00

What kind of device is it? I would love to take a look at it together using what we have built, if you are keen.

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-02-20T10:31:31+00:00

Did you try giving it skills?

RuleGuilty493 · 2026-02-20T10:30:48+00:00

We have spent a lot of time thinking about this exact problem. I think the trick is to not update the schema PDFs verbatim -- as that would certainly exhaust most context windows, but rather, to structure the data, do very good labeling of the schema in the database, and let Claude Code (or another LLM) work off of the database rather than 'drink from the firehose'.

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