[wiseowise]

What a clown. And Twitter bozos will cheer and clap. As far as money spent, this is still much better than rounding up and/or bombing brown people, but shows insanity of the current market. The saddest part is that bootlickers/temporarily embarrassed AI millionaires will defend this.

And of course I'm just yet another envious hater from "the orange website". Your conscience is clear, AI bros. /s

[vessenes]

OpenClaw is the fastest growth open source project ever. This isn’t clowning.

[orphea]

Yep, and surely it has nothing to do with buying GitHub stars. Very organic growth.

[fg137]

Fastest, so?

You need to try really hard to convince me that OpenClaw is more important or has done more good than React or the 10 projects "below" it.

As any if this matters.

[wiseowise]

> OpenClaw is the fastest growth open source project ever.

By which metrics?

> This isn’t clowning.

Why?

[vessenes]

https://www.getpanto.ai/blog/openclaw-ai-platform-statistics

Because a solo dev has deployed to millions of people in less than eight months spending I believe zero dollars on marketing.

We should all be so lucky to clown at this scale.

[wiseowise]

I'm sorry, where did you get millions of deployments? I see 300k+ Github stars, that have as much worth as a bookmarked page (why don't we count those too?). And 2 mil (alleged) website views, which is also moderately nothing.

[vessenes]

This site digs in more: https://www.trendingtopics.eu/openclaw-numbers/, and refers to stats from gradually.ai. Stepfun flash alone had 3.4 trillion tokens used for openclaw as of mid April. That’s not counting GLM, Kimi, Claude (which was being used so heavily for this that Anthropic instituted emergency policy changes mid billing cycle), etc. In fact, Hermes, a smaller competitor harness from Mistral (153k stars) was large enough to have a custom ‘kill’ pathway in claude code. (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262).

I don’t feel the need to spend all day auditing, and I don’t care very much, but generally I think the combination of Nvidia corporate enthusiasm, available github stats and industry analysis all tells a pretty coherent story: A project with 70k forks on github is likely to have more than, say 700k users. My own fork-to-usage ratio is far less than that.

Put another way, I would suggest that most public evidence points one direction. If you believe something else, that’s fine. But if you want to convince me there’s less than, say, 100k deployments worldwide, I’d want to understand where those numbers came from before being convinced.

[AussieWog93]

It's big enough to get noticed by Anthropic. Your account will be immediately flagged off they get a whiff of you running OpenClaw.

I don't think they would do that unless this was widely deployed.

[throwatdem12311]

Who gives a shit. It’s a trash project.

[backscratches]

Lol if your only metric is "I say so"

[boxed]

Both things can be true. The Chinese communist party was one of the biggest social movements ever. Millions died.

[phpnode]

Goodness me that’s quite a comparison

[vrganj]

Agreed. The Chinese Communist Party lifted a billion people out of poverty. What good has OpenClaw done?

[boxed]

Only after ditching communism and embracing markets mind you.

[vrganj]

Those two are not mutually exclusive. What they're going now is similar to Lenin's NEP.

[yygt]

Ah here he is, the bozo who posts with bluster caught out again

[vessenes]

https://www.getpanto.ai/blog/openclaw-ai-platform-statistics — which open source platforms / projects are you aware of that have this level of deployment roughly 8 months from launch?

[RevEng]

So it's hyped? Lots of deployment doesn't mean lots of value, especially in the midst of a bubble larger than any we have ever seen before.