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restive marlin Jan 31, 2026, 7:46 PM

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Don't make this. there's a billion free ways to do this, even digitalocean and cloudflare and railway all natively support this, and the point of openclaw is that its free and open source and you host your own, not a shitty SaaS

hallow meadow Jan 31, 2026, 7:49 PM

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But isn't that still a barrier to entry for most people? They don't know what digitalocean even is. We need a ChatGPT equivalent for openclaw where you sign up and pay $20/mo or something for your own AI bot.

restive marlin Jan 31, 2026, 7:50 PM

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Fuck no

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thats the antithesis of what openclaw is

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railway is already a single click, so is digitalocean and cloudflare, they all have templates

hallow meadow Jan 31, 2026, 7:51 PM

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I love what openclaw is and that it's free but only techy people will test it out

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I doubt my wife would want to mess with railway or digitalocean

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But she pays for ChatGPT because it's easy

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I was thinking about seeing up openclaw for some of my friends to play with and thought that most people would like this but would need help setting it up

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That's when I had the idea for a SaaS option. It wouldn't take away from the other options, just give an easier on ramp for normal people

restive marlin Jan 31, 2026, 7:53 PM

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do not promote this in our server

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we will not support or endorse this in any way whatsoever

hallow meadow Jan 31, 2026, 7:54 PM

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Can you explain why? I wouldn't want to do it if openclaw doesn't support it

restive marlin Jan 31, 2026, 7:54 PM

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i already fucking explained why

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This is not a normie product
Its made to be selfhosted
There's already templates people can use
Fuck SaaS

hallow meadow Jan 31, 2026, 7:55 PM

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But can't both things exist at the same time? You would still have digitalocean, etc, but this would add a new option for the tech illiterate

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