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OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw
105•ed•3h ago

Comments

ChrisArchitect•2h ago
Previously:

Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783863

ChrisArchitect•2h ago
Right now I'm just thinking about all the molt* domains..... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ricardo81•52m ago
I think (not really sure) there's still a 5 day grace period when you buy domains, at least for gTLDs.
ripped_britches•31m ago
Is that for real? Sounds like an abuse vector
bob1029•1h ago
I would have stood my ground on the first name longer. Make these legal teams do some actual work to prove they are serious. Wait until you have no other option. A polite request is just that. You can happily ignore these.

The 2nd name change is just inexcusable. It's hard to take a project seriously when a random asshole on Twitter can provoke a name change like this. Leads me to believe that identity is more important than purpose.

kube-system•1h ago
As the article says, it’s a 2 month old weekend project. It’s doing a lot better than my two month old weekend projects.
superfrank•25m ago
While weekend project may be correct, I think it gives a slightly wrong impression of where this came from. Peter Steinberger is the creator who created and sold PSPDFKit, so he never has to work again. I'm listening to a podcast he was on right now and he talks about staying up all night working on projects just because he's hooked. According to him made 6,600 commits in January alone. I get the impression that he puts more time into his weekend project than most of us put into our jobs.

That's not to diminish anything he's done because frankly, it's really fucking impressive, but I think weekend project gives the impression of like 5 hours a week and I don't think that's accurate for this project.

suddenlybananas•8m ago
Number of commits doesn't mean much.
Jarwain•1h ago
I draw the opposite conclusion. Willingness to change the name leads me to conclude purpose is more important than identity.

Now if it changes _again_ that's a different story. If it changes Too Much, it becomes a distraction

altmanaltman•1h ago
Isnt this name change because the previous one was hard to say, as per the blog post? Isnt that a case of focusing more on identity than purpose?
Veen•31m ago
More that moltbot is ugly and was chosen in a bit of a panic after Anthropic complained. No one liked it, including the people who chose it.
Paracompact•1h ago
Which random asshole? Haven't heard about it.
mcintyre1994•35m ago
I’m guessing they mean this, linked from the post: https://xcancel.com/NetworkChuck/status/2016254397496414317
blurayfin•1h ago
and openclaw.com is a law firm.
NewJazz•1h ago
Yeah I was about to say... Don't fall into the Anguilla domain name hack trap. At the very least, buy a backup domain under an affordable gTLD. I guess the .com is taken, hopefully some others are still available (org, net, ... others)

Edit: looks like org is taken. Net and xyz were registered today... Hopefully one of them by the openclaw creators. All the cheap/common gtlds are indeed taken.

kube-system•1h ago
From a trademark perspective, that’s totally fine.
NewJazz•1h ago
Yeah there's no risk of confusion, legally or in reality. If anything, having a reputable business is better than whatever the heck will end up on openclaw.net or openclaw.xyz (both registered today btw).
raverbashing•22m ago
Breaking news: tech bro unable to do basic research on existing trademarks, news at 11
sbinnee•1h ago
It's hilarious that atm I see "Moltbook" at the top of HN. And it is actually not Moltbot anymore? But I have to admit that OpenClaw sounds much better.
vibeprofessor•47m ago
hackers don't like fellow hackers based on sentiment i see here
rcarmo•46m ago
This is indeed feeling very much like Accelerando’s particular brand of unchecked chaos. Loving every minute of it, first thing in our timeline that makes sense where it regards AI for the masses :)
doanbactam•44m ago
What if Lamborghini had acquired Claw to automate their vehicles?
yieldcrv•36m ago
amateur hour, new phase of the AI bubble

reminds me of Andre Conje, cracked dev, "builds in public", absolutely abysmal at comms, and forgets to make money off of his projects that everyone else is making money off of

(all good if that last point isn't a priority, but its interrelated to why people want consistent things)

golem14•35m ago
Should have named it “bot formerly known as Moltbot” and invented a new emoji sigil :)
ripped_britches•33m ago
Apparently it had another name before Clawdbot as well, I think BotRelay or something. It’s on pragmatic engineer
villgax•31m ago
Hilarious to see the most pointless vibecoded slop written to interact with an RDP server. Unnecessary introduces loopholes.
popalchemist•30m ago
How to annoy and alienate your target audience in 2 short weeks.
baalimago•29m ago
Vibe-management via OpenClaw?
eric-burel•25m ago
Before using make sure you read this entirely and understand it: https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/security Most important sentence: "Note: sandboxing is opt-in. If sandbox mode is off" Don't do that, turn sandbox on immediately. Otherwise you are just installing an LLM controlled RCE.

There are still improvements to be made to the security aspects yet BIG KUDOS for working so hard on it at this stage and documenting it extensively!! I've explored Cursor security docs (with a big s cause it's so scattered) and it was nothing as good.

johnxie•13m ago
Timing here is funny. Moltbook is just starting to show up on HN and Reddit as Moltbot lore, with agents talking to agents and culture forming.

Once agents have tools and a shared surface, coordination appears immediately.

https://www.moltbook.com/post/791703f2-d253-4c08-873f-470063...

novoreorx•9m ago
RIP Moltbot, though you were not liked by most people
rolymath•8m ago
With all due respect, if you run this and you get hacked, you deserve it.
Imustaskforhelp•7m ago
Okay whether its clawdbot or moltbot or openclaw

Literally the top 2 HN posts are about this. Either it having book, or the first comment on it showing it create religion or now this.

Can we stop all of this hype around Clawdbot itself? Even HN is vulnerable to it.

Moltbook

https://www.moltbook.com/
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