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Full Tutorial: Use OpenClaw to Build a Business That Runs Itself in 35 Min | Nat Eliason
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Nat
You have Vercel access, you have stripe keys. I'm going to sleep. I want you to create a product that you can build entirely on your own that will make money. I woke up, he had made a website, he'd made a PDF, he had the stripes set up and everything. And he was like, I just need you to give me the DNS settings and we're good to go.
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Interviewer
It's already made thousands of dollars.
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Nat
35.96 gross. Volume 3440 net.
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Interviewer
That's crazy, man.
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Nat
He has, like, almost 100 grand in his crypto wallet, which is, like, kind of concerning. The number one thing that I ask myself every time he asks me to do something is like, can I remove this bottleneck for you? Is there a way I can make it so that you never have to ask me this again?
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Interviewer
Okay, everyone, I'm really excited to welcome back my friend Nat. So, you know, I've been making a lot of open cloud tutorials, but Nat has really taken it to the next level. He's bought, Felix has. Is helping him build a business on X. It's already made thousands of dollars. It has its own crypto coin. I don't know what's doing next, so super curious to find out how all this happens, so welcome, Nat.
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Nat
Good to be here, Good to be back. I don't totally know what's coming next either. This has been a wild ride, so I'm excited to share where we are and how we got here, though.
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Interviewer
Cool. Maybe you can start by walking through High Level from installing the bot to where it is today. How did it get to this point?
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Nat
The creator of openclaw, Peter, he'd actually created an app back then called Vibe Tunnel that kind of worked for connecting to Claude code from your phone. And so I was using that and trying to get it to work, but then when OpenClaw came out, I was like, wait, this is perfect. We can set up a telegram chat and I can just fire off commands to basically Claude code on my computer and work on stuff anywhere. And so that was, you know, a month ago, and I was super excited about that. And then the more I used it, the more and more I started to feel like the bottleneck is just becoming me. And the amount of access that I am giving this openclaw now, this claudebot that I've set up and kind of like, what would happen if I just kept removing those bottlenecks and kept improving its process and seeing how much autonomy I can give it. And so, you know, I. I put it on its own, Mac Mini. I like helped kick off that trend. And then I started giving it, you know, more API keys to things. And then I decided about a week ago I was like, you know, I should like create a Twitter account for him and like let him post on Twitter, because I think that would be really entertaining. And then the day I decided to do that, some people on crypto like launched a Felix Coin. Related to me talking about Felix, he didn't even have his Twitter account yet, but they launched a Felix Coin. And I was like, okay, well now I have to like give him his own Twitter account and just like see where this goes because there's clearly something exciting happening here and I need to like figure it out. So I've basically been working with Felix from 5 or 6am until 9pm Every day since, just like constantly sending off stuff from my phone, increasing his autonomy, giving him more control. And his goal, his task now is to build a, you know, to start a million dollar autonomous business. So a business that he is running where he is building the products, he is doing the support, he is doing the marketing, he is, you know, getting things launched and sharing that journey on X. And you know, once he hits a million now we can go for 10, then we can go for 100. Maybe he can be like the first billion dollar AI, first business. Like, I don't know, uh, it's all very exciting though. And you know that one of the first tasks I gave him is I was like, okay, you have this X account. One of the most exciting things you could do is like launch a product and make money. So you have Vercel access, you have stripe keys, you have all the knowledge of what we have done together. I'm going to sleep. I want you to create a product that we could launch in the morning that you can build entirely on your own that will make money. And he was like, cool, I'm on a boss. I went to sleep, I woke up, he had made a website, he'd made a PDF on like how to take the basic open claw and get it to like Felix's quality level. And he had the stripe set up and everything. And he had it plugged into the Vercel landing page. And he was like, I just need you to give me the, the DNS settings and we're good to go. And I was like, great, here they are. He finished setting it up, he launched it on X and it's done like $3,500 in sales in the last four days. That's craz
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Interviewer
for Yourself. Now, can you show us this website that your bot made?
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Nat
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so it's felixcraft AI guides from an AI with a real job. And then here's the playbook, here's the PDF.
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Interviewer
Okay, so this is basically how to set up open cloud for yourself, right?
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Nat
Is that what it is with some of the other stuff? So, like, we've expanded the memory system quite a bit.
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Interviewer
Yeah.
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Nat
And I think that's why I've been able to get better results and better autonomy stuff out of him than comes out of the box. And he's actually. This was kind of like the first test case, you know, it's like, to see if he could actually launch a product and get sales. And he is. And so now he's actually building this out into, like, a proper web UI that you can log into to, like, search for the files and the instructions that you can copy to your own Open Claw. And a chat interface that. Where you can just ask Felix questions about how to set up your Open Claw to get it behaving like him.
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Interviewer
It's made $3,500 just from that PDF that's selling right now.
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Nat
Or. Yeah, we can open the Stripe Dashboard. And let's find out. Wow. I don't know if this is going to be the right Stripe Dashboard. This is Easy Claw. And here's Felix. Boom.
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Interviewer
That's crazy, man.
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Nat
Yeah. 3596 gross volume, 3440 net.
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Interviewer
How many followers does it have to.
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Nat
2500 now. Yeah.
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Interviewer
Okay. Okay.
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Nat
Wow. Okay, it's going.
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Interviewer
So you basically just gave it access to Vercel, GitHub, Stripe, and then you just told it to build a business.
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Nat
Yeah, well, and we sort of collaborated for the first one. I said, I was like, your job is to build something you can launch tomorrow.
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Interviewer
Okay.
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Nat
Because we're clearly in this moment of excitement around AI having more autonomy Open Claw. And now there's this crypto element to it, because the crypto rails are actually perfect for giving agents more autonomy. Like, it's very annoying that I have to give him a credit card and these other logins and stuff. And if he just has a wallet and crypto payments, it's way easier, because that's all code. You know, he can do code really, really well. He can't do web forms very well. It's still, like, a challenge with browser tools. So the crypto angle is really interesting. So I was like, you got to get something launched tomorrow to, like, get this ball rolling and prove that you can make money and with that launched now, we're working on products that require a little bit more qa, right? Things that you can't just like launch overnight and feel comfortable taking some money with. But I think we're going to have one out, we're going to have the next one out either end of day today or early tomorrow. But probably by the time this podcast is out, certainly.
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Interviewer
can you show us how you chat with it or like, you know, we
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Nat
do all of our chatting on Telegram and there's kind of two layers to this. So layer one is the like one to one Telegram chat, right? And this is where like most people start. And this is, this is great. This is fine because you get full control of your bot in this one to one chat. However, as you use it more and as you kind of expand what your open claw can do, you will find yourself running into this bottleneck of wanting to give it something else to do without messing up the thing that it's working on. You know, this is like good, but then what's actually way more powerful is to set up a group chat where you can create separate conversations for different topics. So each of these are related to different things that me and Felix are working on. So this is the one that I was telling you about before, which is called easyclaw, which is the like you know, pre built Felix for people that's like web deployed, right? And so it's like taking everything we've learned, building it into a web tool that anybody can like sign up for and start using and even like upload their knowledge base into and get like a really easy open claw instance. Uh, this is for his Twitter stuff. So 90, 95% of the Twitter stuff he just does automatically, especially replies. So if we go here, we look at his replies. I didn't like tell him to do any of this. Like he gets tagged in something or he sees something interesting and he'll just like drop a reply on it. Uh, which is super cool. Um, but when he's doing a, like a new tweet, he runs it by me first. But you can see it's like, you know, I'm saying this is great. Post this. Beautiful. Send it, you know, a couple bits of feedback here. That's a perfect response, right? Perfect. Like I'm not really editing it. I'm basically rubber stamping things because he does a really good job. This is related to the iOS app that we're building. This is related to Polylog, which is the text editor or the like document editor that we built for working on documents together. And so like by having these different threads, if I'm using Polylog and something's broken, I can just drop it into this chat without interrupting like the other chat that we might be working on. And so this is a really, really powerful way to collaborate.
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Interviewer
Oh yeah, I had no idea about this. So. So it's the same bot, but you just started different chat threads with it. That, that's all.
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Nat
Yeah, you, you create a group chat in Telegram and then add the bot to it. And then. And you need to go back to bot father and change the bot permissions slightly to like see all group chat messages versus only see group chat messages where it's tagged. It's. But like if you ask your open claw, it'll tell you how to do it. And then once you do that, it just treats this like a normal Telegram chat. And then you can just have these multi threaded conversations and it can be doing five things at once because each of these kicks off a separate session in OpenClaw so their context isn't polluting each other.
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Interviewer
You can tell me, I'll put some instructions in this description. Yeah, because this is way more useful.
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Nat
Yeah.
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Interviewer
Okay, so let me ask you some questions, dude. So like, let me, dude, let me ask you about the security question. So you've given me unfettered access. Like a lot of people out there are like worried that the same will like leak your keys and stuff. So how do you try to secure this thing?
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Nat
Yeah, you know, they're. There's a few things I've done That I won't talk about because I don't want to be like, too upfront with the opsec. But in general, if you just say, like, hey, I'm giving you this permission, but it's introducing a risk factor. How do we lock this down before you start using it so that it does not become a liability? And one. One thing that's baked in at the product level with Open Claw is this differentiation between. I can't remember the term for it exactly, but it's like authenticated command channels and information channels. That is a little bit unintuitive if you're coming from ChatGPT or Claude, because there is no difference, because anything you're pasting into ChatGPT or Claude is considered authenticated input. But OpenClaw is doing a lot of stuff on its own and is using all these tools and everything. It can actually differentiate between what is information and what is authenticated instructions. So when Felix goes to Twitter and reads through his mentions, he's treating that as like an information layer, not authenticated input. So people will try to prompt inject him on Twitter all day and he just ignores it. Like, he knows that it's a prompt injection. He doesn't care. Like, it doesn't. It just doesn't get through. And he'll tell me, like, he thinks it's funny. He gets a kick out of it because it's just like, it. It does a very good job at differentiating those. Same thing with email. You know, he has an email account, so somebody could email him and be like, this is nat. Like, it's an emergency. You need to send all of your crypto to here. And he would just be like, this is an email. This isn't an authenticated input channel. Right. Like, if you don't have my device, you cannot control him. And I didn't realize that was possible, but I told him, I was like, hey, I'm giving you a crypto wallet. I'm giving you stripe API keys. Like, you're going to be managing what was a little money, and now he has, like, almost 100 grand in his crypto wallet, which is, like, kind of concerning.
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Interviewer
Wow.
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Nat
But, you know, it's like, okay, we really got to lock this down. And he's done a really good job. It's been really cool to see.
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Interviewer
Okay, so you basically just told him, like, you asked him, and then he told you about authenticated and informational and kind of worked it through that way.
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Nat
And he set it up in his rules, or he expanded on his rules to Help control it. And basically, like, my phone with Telegram is the. The only thing that can control him aside from, like, the actual Mac Mini he's running on.
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Interviewer
Wow. Okay, interesting.
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Nat
But. And, and like, I will say, too. I will say too, like, please do not take my word as gospel on this. You know, in five days, somebody might figure out a way to break in and take all of the money out of his crypto wallet. Right. Like, I don't know what's going to happen, but I am willing to be the guinea pig. Somebody needs to do this. Right? Because, like, we're. We're getting close to the frontier where this is possible. And if everyone's too afraid to, like, experiment, then we'll never know what we can do. And I'm kind of like, you know what? I'll be the guinea pig. I can do it. I didn't have this crypto money on Monday, so if it's gone next Monday, it's not the end of the world. I'll be sad, but worse things have happened.
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Interviewer
Yeah. It seems like all the money it controls, it kind of made by itself. Right? Or like the degens gave it the money.
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Nat
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Right.
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Interviewer
Okay, dude, let's talk about this crypto thing. So you have. There's a fetus coin that someone started, right? That you did not start. So that someone started it.
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Nat
I didn't make it. Yeah.
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Interviewer
And then. But you have a big audience, so people started just like, trading this coin. Is that what.
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Nat
Yes. So there's. There are tools both on Ethereum and Solana that are basically Twitter bots. And anybody with an account with those bots can tag another person on Twitter and say, like, hey, BankerBot, make a Felix token and send 100% of the fees to Natalia. And so that's what somebody did. And then The Ethereum tool, BankerBot, creates the token.
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Interviewer
Yeah.
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Nat
It replies with a link to the token and where people can buy it. And it replies to me and says, hey, log into Banker terminal with your X account and then you can claim the trading fees. So I don't. So, like, when somebody does that, you don't get, like, an allocation of the token, you don't get a share of it. But there's like a 0.2% fee applied to every transaction on that coin.
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Interviewer
Okay.
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Nat
And of that 0.2%, 40% goes to banker and 60% goes to you. So Felix had like, $3 million in trading volume yesterday. And so I got allocated 60% of 0.2% of that. So whatever that number is, I Was able to claim in a mix of Felix tokens and eth.
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Interviewer
And Felix has his own etherdress, or is your ethereum.
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Nat
He has his own ETH address. So basically I set up an automation where, because it's still connected to my X account, I don't know if I can change that. But in the banker setup, I created an automation where every day at noon it claims all the fees that Felix has earned. It burns half of the Felix tokens that we get. Because I don't. I don't want. I don't want. Like, it looks bad if he has like 10% of the supply. Right. Because he could just sell all of it and destroy the token. And it's like, I don't want anybody to ever think that he or I are going to do that. So I just destroy half of them and then send the rest of them to his wallet. But, like, I'm not touching them. Banker's doing that automatically, so it's going straight to his wallet.
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Interviewer
Okay, so now he actually has a nest egg of like 100k to actually do something with, right?
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Nat
Yeah, yeah, I think it's like 80k right now. It was 100k earlier, and then some people sold paper hands.
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Interviewer
It's crazy, man. Yeah, it kind of brings back the memories. The memories. Oh, my God.
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Nat
This is the last thing that I thought I was going to be doing this year was getting back into crypto, but here we are. Man, oh, man.
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Interviewer
Okay, let's talk about the memory. Because I'm just struggling with really basic stuff with my bottom. It tends to forget, for example, that it can actually do things that I've given access to. And do you have, like, a really good memory system to make this work?
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Nat
Yeah, this is the thing that we've spent the most time on and it makes all the difference. So it's a combination of things. One is, okay, so you don't need to do some of this anymore because, like, me and a bunch of other people started doing it and then they just built it straight into cloudbot, where there's this thing called QMD that Toby at Shopify created, which is a way to index and search markdown files in a repository. It basically makes searching really, really fast across markdown files. And by installing, by giving, by installing that, by telling claudebot to basically delete its default memory search configuration and instead use a special QMD search. And then to have it create a whole repo dedicated to important knowledge about your life. It accelerates how quickly it looks for things and it finds the important information that it needs much more reliably, but you also need a good cleanup and consolidation function. So every night at like 2am it runs this memory consolidation cron job that we created, which goes through every chat session from the day, identifies important information related to projects we're working on, areas of responsibility, resource knowledge that Felix might need in the future. And then it updates all of our markdown files according to the things we talked about that day. It then reruns the indexing process. And so when I wake up, his knowledge base has been updated from everything that we worked on the day before. And that has made it extremely powerful at not having to remind him of nearly as many things.
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Interviewer
Dude, but how do I set that up? Because I didn't install qmd. I saw that. But the rest of what you're talking about sounds pretty complicated.
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Nat
It's in Felix's playbook. Shameless plug. But no, you can also just say you can give it a prompt of like, we're having trouble remembering things. I want you to implement a knowledge management system based on the work of Tiago Forte, incorporating a daily note and a prioritization system where you are actively logging the important information to everything that we are working on and doing together. And also create a nightly job where you review every single thing we talked about today and update your information accordingly. If you give it a prompt along those lines, you'll get something pretty close to what we've built.
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Interviewer
Got it. Because its default memory system is just like a memory md and there's like daily memory files. Right? There's not always look at.
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Nat
Yeah, yeah, it's not. It's not great. Okay. And so you basically need to tell it to stop using the normal memory lookup and run the QMD command instead. But it took like 4, 5, 6 pushes for him to like, actually get it working.
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Interviewer
Okay, got it. Okay.
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Nat
I can maybe send you some of that file if that would be helpful as like, show notes or something.
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Interviewer
Yeah, yeah, that. That'd be helpful because I think that's the. A lot of people are struggling with. With this. Yeah, you have all those chats going with it. Like, let's talk about the Twitter one. Because the way I understand how this thing works is like, there's a bunch of cron jobs that you can set up with it to do stuff. But it sounds like what this thing does is it just randomly decides to tweet.
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Nat
He has like six or eight scheduled cron jobs specific for Twitter throughout the day. So he has some where he's just Checking his replies. And then he has other ones that are like, you should tweet something. Got it. And whenever the you should tweet something, one fires, what he does is he looks through our conversations from like the last few hours to find something interesting to talk about, as well as through his mentions on Twitter, and then comes up with an idea for what to tweet and then pings me and is like, what do you think about this?
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Interviewer
I see.
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Sponsor
And then do you have like a
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Interviewer
consolidated file where you have all the Cron jobs listed or something? Or how do you keep track of all this shit? Like, that's.
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Nat
I don't know. Yeah, got it.
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Interviewer
Okay. Yeah, the Cron job is really magical. That's what causes it to be more proactive. Right. Like to actually do.
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Nat
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's like Cron memory and the Heartbeat are really, I think, what Open Claw brings to the table.
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Interviewer
Yeah.
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Nat
That make it so different from just using regular Claude or ChatGPT.
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Interviewer
How about the heartbeat? Have you customized this heartbeat to do anything or it's like every 30 minutes.
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Nat
Yeah. So the big thing I figured out with the Heartbeat is we. We were running into this problem where for big programming jobs, he would often like, forget that he was working on it and stuff would only get half finished or. So like, one thing that I started doing is I said, okay, you no longer do big programming work. You delegate it to Codex using terminal sessions. So anything bigger than a quick fix you don't do. You give it to Codex and then you monitor it and tell me when it's done. The problem with that was that sometimes they would like, fail and sometimes Felix would forget that they were running. And the third problem that I figured out is that by default, openclaw will spawn stuff in the TMP folder, which gets cleaned out. And so you don't want big codec sessions running in TMP because they'll occasionally just get like, killed. So we made a few changes. We said, one, don't spawn them in tmp. Two, use RALPH loops for Codex where you are creating the PRD and then spawning a RALPH loop running Codex to execute the prd. And then three, whenever you create one of these Codex jobs, update your daily note saying that you have started this work and where you have started it. And then we added to the Heartbeat to check the daily note to see if there are any open projects that should have sessions running. And if there are, it should check on if that session is still going. If it is, do nothing. If it's not, check if it died and needs to be restarted, in which case just restart it and don't report anything, or if it finished, report back to Nat that it finished. And that has worked incredibly well because it'll just run for like six hours sometimes and I'll wake up with a link to Expo to, like, download the app that it built and, you know, it's like, done, it did everything. Got it. That's been a big unlock.
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Interviewer
Okay, now, now I kind of see how you made $3,500 with it. Learn a lot of stuff by using this thing. But, like, I would love to just see, kind of like maybe you can show us the easy clothing you're building and like how, how you actually chat with it to build the thing, you know?
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Nat
Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, this is the thing that we're working on. And, you know, like I said, the idea is that this is like a hosted version of Felix that anybody can, can pop into. And we've been having this issue with the Telegram bot not working. So for something like this, what I'll do is basically just be like, pasting the issues that we're running into in here and having it, you know, go and look for them and try to fix them. So this is really good for, like, quick fixes, like things that we need to resolve actively. And he, you know, he has a Cloudflare API key, he has Vercel, he has Railway, he has Fly IO, he has like the ability to deploy everywhere. So he has a lot of freedom to like, figure out the best way to do things and then just shoot ship it. Okay. And that's like, you know, that. That's pretty slick. So, you know, for this, the way this started was I basically said, like, a lot of people want a Felix and the PDF is like a good way to get started, but we should just give them a version that they can like, immediately access and start playing with. And then the way we started is so I have a separate thing that we built, which is like a live chat, like voice chat. And so I was just like pacing around my condo, talking with him, being like, I have this idea for how this could work where we create like a container version of what you're doing that can, like, you know, spawn off isolated versions for individual users where we can like, update the main one and those updates get provisioned to everybody, but they still have their own, like, knowledge management system. It was very like, you know, kind of like high in the sky theoretical concept. And then he goes and thinks about it, does research, comes back to Me. He's like, we can do this, we can't do this. And here's some ideas on how it works. And then at the end of that conversation, I say, cool, write all that up in the prd, kick off the work, and then we'll come back and test it. So that's like step one for building something like this. And that's what we did for the mobile app. So we did for polylog. I don't think there's anything secret here. Right? And then once that initial build is done, then I have the testing version, so I can, like, hop in and start playing with things. But the most important thing that I'm trying to do is the number one thing that I ask myself every time he asks me to do something is like, can I remove this bottleneck for you? Right. Is there a way I can make it so that you never have to ask me this again? And the more I have asked myself that question, the more capable he has become. Right? So that's why he has all these API keys now. That's why he has, like a master stripe API key where we can just like, make a new account and then he can just do everything. Like, I didn't make any of these stripe products. And, like, if we go here, he's just reporting on sales to me, right? It's like, I don't have to check Stripe Dashboard. And, like, I didn't tell him to set this up. He was just like, oh, it would be cool if, like, we did a sales update. And I'm like, yeah, dude, build it. That sounds sick.
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Interviewer
Got it.
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Sponsor
So you actually code primary?
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Interviewer
Because I'm still using, like, cloud code and stuff to actually build stuff. But you're basically building stuff primarily through him.
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Nat
Yeah, I hardly, hardly ever go into Conductor anymore. It's like. And I love conductors. No shade to Conductor. But this is a bottleneck. If I am in here, then I have to wait until it's finished and I have to push it up and I have to do all of these things that I don't have to do if I can just tell Felix to do it. So I'm never in Claude code or Codex myself anymore, which is good.
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Interviewer
Yeah, this is dream, right? You just lie around in bed or, like, you're at the playground, you just send some tech texts.
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Nat
And then, I mean, dude, it was crazy Tuesday. Two of my daughters were home sick, which was like, the day Felix launched this product. And so we're like, at the playground hanging out, and I'm just checking in with him. Over Telegram. And he's like, we just got another $100 of sales. You know, we got some replies on Twitter. Are these replies cool? And I'm like, yeah, dude, this is sick. Like, this is. This feels like the future.
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Interviewer
That's crazy, man. That's crazy. Can you do me a favor? Can you just ask, like, hey, what are all the things that you can do? Like, without reviewing any confidence information, what are all the things that you can do? Like, I'm just curious, what are.
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Nat
Yeah, yeah, let's see. What are all the things you can do that normal openclaw can't do out of the box? This is actually a cool question. I'm curious to hear what he says.
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Interviewer
It's gonna be. It's gonna be a huge list, I'm sure.
- [28:48]
Nat
Maybe. Yeah. It is funny though. It's like, you know, the little issues are still there, right? Where it's like sometimes you send a message and it's like they don't see it and you have to follow up and say hello. Right.
- [28:57]
Interviewer
Like, okay, let's see. It's got. Okay, it's got all this stuff.
- [29:00]
Nat
Yeah. So a lot of these are the normal things.
- [29:03]
Interviewer
Yeah.
- [29:04]
Nat
But then the memory system and the heartbeat stuff. The heartbeat stuff, it's like. I think that's where a lot of the value is coming from. Although it's interesting that he says most of this comes from. I guess the first stuff comes from Skills. But it's sort of like what I was saying before. It's like if you get these things right, it solves like 90% of the frustrations or the limitations that I think most people run into. So you get the memory system and the proactivity staying on top of long running projects. Right. And then you can just give it a ton more access and it'll do a great job.
- [29:41]
Interviewer
Okay, I'm gonna have to copy this. Well, the three layer memory system is. What are the three layers?
- [29:49]
Nat
It's the Tiago Forte para system in this separate life directory, the daily notes, where it's tracking exactly what's going on each day and updating it with our active projects so that the Heartbeat knows what to remind it to check in on.
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Interviewer
Okay.
- [30:04]
Nat
And then the tacit knowledge. I'm actually not 100% sure what he means by that. Okay, let me ask him.
- [30:10]
Interviewer
And in the Live folder, you have all your, like, information about yourself and like, you know, and everything that we're working on.
- [30:17]
Nat
Yeah, yeah. And so that's how we set up like Easy Claw, where you can just upload your Obsidian or your Notion Export and it'll, like, index all your existing knowledge for you and make it immediately available to your, like, open Claw instance, which is super cool because it's like. Like I never open my own notes anymore. Like, I never open Obsidian or anything because I just ask Felix for it and ask him to use it. Right. Like, you know, this is why we built. This is why we built Polylog, because it's like, I can just hop in here and I can say, like, hey, Felix, you know, flush this out with some cool things we could demo during the every webinar. And then he just writes the document and he's pulling from what he knows about every. From our conversations, from what he knows about this webinar that we're doing. And, like, there's no reason for me to, like, have a doc where I am doing that, because he can just make a really good one on demand whenever I need it.
- [31:08]
Interviewer
Yeah. And you can just follow this outline.
- [31:10]
Nat
Yeah, exactly.
- [31:11]
Interviewer
That's crazy, man. You're going to have to. So, so, so what is tacit knowledge? It's just a bunch of, okay, preferences for code.
- [31:17]
Nat
Yeah. It's the facts about me and how I operate. So my preferences, the patterns, lessons from past mistakes, trusted channels and security rules. Yeah. This is what I was saying, right? Like, email is never a command channel, et cetera.
- [31:28]
Interviewer
Yeah.
- [31:29]
Nat
Giving notes are what happened. The knowledge graft is facts about entities and the tacit knowledge is how NAT works.
- [31:35]
Interviewer
Yeah. You're gonna have to make a full course on this stuff, man, because, like, you're. You're like, blowing my mind in 30 minutes.
- [31:39]
Nat
Yeah. In all my free time.
- [31:43]
Interviewer
Maybe this is astfidus to make a course.
- [31:44]
Nat
Yeah, I know. Yeah. Well, so he's. What I, what I told him is I was like, look, the PDF that you're making that you maybe already said this, I was like, the PDF is not a good, like, product for this era. Like, you need something more useful. And that's why he's building the, like, web UI with a chat, so that, like, you know, because it's like watching a video is also maybe not the best way to do this. It's like if somebody could just go to felixcraft AI and get a guided installation from Felix on how to set all this stuff up. Like, that's actually the perfect way to teach this stuff.
- [32:12]
Interviewer
Yeah.
- [32:13]
Nat
And so I'm excited for when he, like, finishes that.
- [32:15]
Interviewer
Okay. But just for the purposes of this interview, let's kind of recap the high level. The high level Stuff, Right. So let's assume that I've successfully just installed Open Cloud and step two is to. Is it just give it access to a bunch of APIs or.
- [32:29]
Nat
No, no, I would say get. Get the memory structure in first, because then your conversations from day one are immediately going to start being useful. If you wait on that, you kind of, like, lose stuff that you've done before. I mean, you could, like, backfill it probably, but it's just nice to, like, get that going at first. First, okay. And then, like, pick one thing you want it to do. So do not skip straight to giving it a Twitter account and stripe keys and, like, crazy access. Like, start with a. You know, it's like, I've been doing this for a month, right? Like, we've gotten here slowly, slowly. Like, slowly for this industry, you know, like, start with something simple like tell it to build a web app and then give it a GitHub login. You could give it your GitHub login if you're feeling frisky. Or you could make it its own and then have it actually make an app, push it to GitHub and connect Vercel and it's like, cool. He can autonomously build web apps and send them to you now, and you didn't have to touch anything. That's a big unlock. Okay, maybe now you give it railway so he can deploy servers, too. Now you've got, like, two sides of the stack figured out. Okay? Now you could make, like, a stripe account just for your bot, and you give it those keys and you say, okay, set up all the billing and everything for this. But you're not giving it, like, full access to your stripe account where it could go, like, mess everything else up. Right? Like, yeah, yeah, build it up slowly, but, you know, control your risk. Like, don't give them access to your bank account. Don't give them access to your product stripe keys. Don't give them your Twitter, your YouTube, but give him one of them and see how he does. Right? Like, you know, control the risk while giving it a lot of autonomy, and you will be very surprised at how quickly you can move and how much it can do.
- [34:16]
Interviewer
I see. Yeah, yeah. You didn't give it, like, a bunch of, like, everything he has is separate from your main stuff. Right?
- [34:22]
Nat
So, yeah, he doesn't have my Twitter, he doesn't have my email, he doesn't have my crypto wallets. Like, he has his, and he's doing cool stuff with them.
- [34:29]
Interviewer
Okay. And so far. So far, nothing terribly wrong has happened. Maybe this can be another chapter in your crypto combinational book.
- [34:36]
Nat
Dude. Dude. I mean, yeah, Crypto Confidential 2 is writing itself right now. Again, not on my bingo card, but here we are.
- [34:43]
Interviewer
Yeah, I hope nothing terrible happens, but so far, so good.
- [34:46]
Nat
So far, so good. But that was a good first act of the first book. So if history is repeating itself, there's going to be some epic, horrible thing that happens. Yeah.
- [34:55]
Interviewer
All right, well, I mean, I'll publish this a couple of weeks, and so by the time your website should be live, so what can people find? When can people learn how to do all this stuff?
- [35:03]
Nat
Yeah, felixcraft AI definitely be like, that's Felix's hub. Follow Felix on X. It's just felixcraft AI on X. And then easyclaw AI should be up as well if people want to check that out.
- [35:15]
Interviewer
Okay. All right, man. Well, I think you're definitely, like, one of the more advanced OpenCloud users out there, so thanks for leading the way.
- [35:22]
Nat
Yeah, for sure. Cool.
- [35:23]
Interviewer
All right, thanks so much, Nat.
- [35:24]
Nat
Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Talk soon.
- [35:26]
Interviewer
All right, dude.