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Today on TWiST we’re joined by 3 founders building on Open Claw,  Presh Dineshkumar, Vishnu, and Sean Liu!

First, long time friend of the pod, Presh Dineshkumar, shows us how he’s using Open Claw to automate his work at The Wellness Company. His Open Claw agent, Eywa, lives in his email and in his product, able to compile user lists at his discretion.

Then, we’re joined by Vishnu, who brings Open Claw to the masses. Non-technical folks, it’s your lucky day! Time to get Clawd-shotted! Last, Sean Liu joins the show to tell us about how he’s connecting Meta glasses to his Open Claw instance to interact with context that users can physically see!

Timestamps:

(0:00) We’re joined by Presh Dineshkumar of the Wellness Company, another OpenClaw fanatic

(1:50) We meet Presh’s Replicant — Eywa — who spies on all of his emails

(2:53) How Eywa is helping Presh keep track of his app’s most active users

(4:35) LLMs have become very smart but they are trapped in the corner

(6:10) How Presh gave Eywa its own email address and avoids prompt injections

(8:56) Using Presh’s Replicant to do daily research dives

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(13:21) Presh also has Eywa hunting down and fix bugs in his apps, all from email

(16:16) Way more startups can be profitable now that they don’t need 10+ person teams

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(20:36) We’re joined by two more OpenClaw builders: Vishnu and Xiaoan (Sean) Liu

(21:16) Sean hooked his Meta Ray Bans up to his OpenClaw!

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(31:05) Some dystopian thoughts on how to use VisionClaw technology

(32:47) What kinds of startups will get the most value out of OpenClaw?

(34:43) Why Vishnu made a product to simplify OpenClaw set-up and security

(37:34) What inspires people to stop considering OpenClaw and go “all in” on the tech

(40:17) Will Vishnu and Sean quit their jobs and take Jason’s investment $125K investment deal… YES

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