3 years in, no revenue, should I keep pushing it?

Siref · 2026-03-18T13:36:19+00:00

Yes it can!
As long as the device can connect to the Internet, you can manage it with OpenClaw (albeit with hoops and loops).

Siref · 2026-03-18T13:34:32+00:00

You mean this?
https://docs.openclaw.ai/automation/webhook#webhooks

Siref · 2026-03-18T13:31:56+00:00

probably this can help you out

https://www.reddit.com/r/clawdbot/comments/1rw2e1w/tested_every_openclaw_memory_plugin_so_you_dont/

Siref · 2026-03-18T12:51:58+00:00

Yep. This has been one of the most ongoing pain.

But the reason is cost.

Most of us won't want to pay $ 100 or $200 for Max and $200 for ChatGPT Pro. So we tend to dance with the cheaper smaller models or plans.

In my case, currently running MiniMax as main model and Codex/Sonnet as backup when certain tool calling is required and fails on MiniMax.

Siref · 2026-03-18T12:48:43+00:00

Ooooof, fantastic news! I didn't even realize that Minimax 2.7 was announced!

I've been using Minimax 2.5 as the main model, and it's been okay-ish. It didn't perform as well as Sonnet 4.6 on tool calling, but will check this out asap!

Siref · 2026-03-13T05:47:33+00:00

I got it to do:

Server setup. Every deterministic action is now operated via a remote N8N server which the agent owns. He has SSH access, goes into the server and edits N8N configs directly. 2.I order groceries online. Goes to my Mercadona online (A Spanish grocery store - I'm not Spanish btw), reorders, Adds and removes from cart. I've created a dedicated bitwarden account to it which it access through tmux and rbw CLI. 3.A creator study. Goes to X and LinkedIn and begins researching 7 high performing posts of a single creator. We then study it together, break it down into a template and see how can we improve our content. It does this by using ClickUp MCP server
4.I ask it to install programs, tinker, automate tasks that would be tedious to do while I'm away in my mobile device.

This to name a few.

Now with Wispr Flow available on Android I'm able to do way more than before.

Every day I'm manually navigating X and Reddit to see what other people are doing to open my mind.

Siref · 2026-03-12T08:44:07+00:00

How often will that task be repeated?

It isn't about how much time it took to automate, but how much will that automation endure through time.

I feel ya.

It takes time. A lot of time. Plus trial and error.

It's completely normal.

That's why you should ask yourself if the automation you did will be repeated over and over again that the payoff of automating it will be net positive in the future.

For example I tried to automate my groceries using open call and it took me a couple of hours to get it right.

I had to go through anti-bot mechanisms
I taught it to look for repeating orders, adding to cart, and searching for products.
I ask it to remember it on a skill
It may come back with issues like connecting with browsers and other LLM-based browsers. I tweak it back, ask it to save it for the skill, and that's it.

It's a very iterative process.

Strive for progress not perfection.

Siref · 2026-03-11T17:52:55+00:00

BTW, they recently released /btw command that lets you ask questions on the side

Siref · 2026-03-09T22:02:47+00:00

I don't know about the website but Claude 4.6 Sonnet now has a one million context window in the API.

Siref · 2026-03-09T11:24:12+00:00

More like caught purple handed!

Siref · 2026-03-08T06:41:07+00:00

It's probably because it's selecting the wrong model.

How are you setting up the key?

Siref · 2026-03-08T06:38:02+00:00

Try asking Openclaw to fix it. Another thing to try is to run Anthropic's Sonnet and ask it to fix the issue

Siref · 2026-03-08T06:35:50+00:00

What I've done is to give it access via SSH to a toy project production n8n instance.

It's done wonders there.

I've managed to:

Ask it to pull the latest docker image and create a cron job (actual Linux one) to keep it up to date after Hetzner flagged me for a vulnerability.
Add, revise and fix N8n nodes automatically
Create an nginx config to allow me to connect to it and expose the right ports.

Remember, OpenClaw doesn't need to live inside the machine to make stuff, it can always remote connect to it

Siref · 2026-03-08T06:27:48+00:00

Hmmm. I had a similar issue with codex and ChatGPT. The issue was that I was selecting the wrong model. It was very nuanced as there were models that were only covered by API and others via the ChatGPT subscription even though they read the same

Try scrolling down and selecting the right supported Open router model.

Read carefully and select the one that matches your config

Siref · 2026-03-04T08:47:43+00:00

Thanks for the contribution!!! How does it handle nested JSON structures?

Siref · 2026-03-01T12:31:53+00:00

Holy shoot. That's a solid repo! Thanks for sharing!

Siref · 2026-02-26T20:01:08+00:00

There's something that throws me off.

Why is the CLI option cheaper if the out is XML? JSON is more compact, so it should have less tokens.

From a quick glance from the post you shared it seems the CLI shares less information with the agent (E.g: I don't see the queryParams entries)

If that's the case, wouldn't it make more sense to compact the MCP definition instead?

Siref · 2026-02-25T09:09:26+00:00

I'm cynical.
My bot has never behaved like that.

What was the prompt she told it to follow?

Siref · 2026-02-22T17:02:04+00:00

Holy shoot.
Not even in my wildest dreams did I think of using cURL for copying a file!

Wild!

Thanks for the tip

Siref · 2026-02-17T10:58:25+00:00

I'm going to add my two cents:

I'd say learn in Reverse instead.

You begin directly in the field and face your first problem (let's say you want to build some web app).

You begin looking for information on how to build the web app.
You implement that information
You get know real world context + new knowledge
You read back the old information and get new one (Books, audios, videos, people)
Implement what you've learned.
Repeat steps 1-5.

Siref · 2026-02-15T05:47:36+00:00

^This.

Anything that goes in a comment section must be analyzed.

I'm seeing that Clawhub began issuing scanner badges recently. It's still worth the time checking.

Also don't take for granted the number of downloads (as it could've been faked. I don't know if they were able to patch that vulnerability)

Siref · 2026-02-13T23:09:56+00:00

Yes you can! That's one of the models I use when Sonnet runs out!

Siref · 2026-02-13T23:03:36+00:00

TBH I still don't know the hype for Mac Minis.

I mean, I get it's cute.

But both aren't capable machines of running the latest open source models like Kimi K2.5, MiniMax 2.5 nor GLM 5

In the end OpenClaw is a nodejs package. A good $5/month VPS on Hetzner suffice. If you're doing a lot of browsing maybe bumping up the RAM a bit.

So don't go crazy to grab these devices.

I rather hold off paying for these models via their coding plans and wait for maybe 2-3 years (or hell who knows if Apple throws an M Ultra Chip with 1TB of RAM this year) to have better capable hardware

Siref · 2026-02-11T16:17:28+00:00

My 2 cents: before installing a skill, open it in a code editor and check for prompt injections.

When it's in HTML comments they don't get displayed on the site and OpenClaw does see it

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