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KiloClaw - Hosted OpenClaw. No Mac mini required.

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OpenClaw is the most popular open source AI agent on the planet. Running it yourself? That's the hard part. KiloClaw is a fully managed, hosted version of OpenClaw. We handle the infrastructure, security, updates, and monitoring so you can focus on what your agent actually does - not keeping it alive.

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fmerian

If you've played around with @OpenClaw, you know the drill: 30-60 minutes of SSH, environment config, dependency juggling, unexpected crashes, and manual updates... It's fun at first, then we move on.

@KiloClaw fixes this:

  • One-click deploy

  • 50+ chat platforms

  • 500+ AI models via @Kilo Code

OpenClaw is awesome. KiloClaw makes it accessible to everyone: kilo.ai/kiloclaw - Thank you, ?makers

chunhee park

@fmerian I had big wall to make open claw system, although I think I need to use. KiloClaw will be my best solution, thank you!

fmerian

@chunhee awesome! s/o to @pandemicsyn and the @Kilo Code team - keep 'em posted in their Discord: kilo.ai/discord

Rohit Ghumare
@fmerian I have mentioned kiloclaw long time back in my https://openclawsearch.com repo.
fmerian

awesome collection, Rohit - thanks for featuring @KiloClaw and looking forward to contributing to it!

Rohan Chaubey

@fmerian Good hunt, Flo! I like the positioning of the product :)

Shivansh Anand Srivastava

Interesting launch — but I think there’s an important elephant in the room here.

Tools like OpenClaw and other “personal AI assistants” were compelling largely because they aimed to keep computation and data local. Once you move that into a hosted/cloud environment, you reintroduce the exact risk many users were trying to avoid: PII, system context, files, and behavioral data flowing to third-party infrastructure.

If sensitive prompts, logs, or system-level interactions are still traversing cloud endpoints, doesn’t that fundamentally defeat the purpose of a personal/local-first AI assistant?

I’d really like to see clear documentation around:
– What data leaves the user’s machine
– What is stored, for how long
– Whether any telemetry or logs are retained
– How you prevent unintended data exfiltration

Convenience is great — but privacy is the whole value proposition here. Without strong guarantees, this just becomes another cloud AI wrapper.

Brendan O'Leary

@shivansh_anand_srivastava1 Totally agree! And we're working on a security white paper to bring clarity here. Do you think that would help? As a preview I've attached the current draft's outline below.

I also wrote about how I think about separation for my OWN OpenClaw instance here: https://blog.kilo.ai/p/open-claw-is-my-intern?utm_source=publication-search. Would love to know your thoughts on that.

Shivansh Anand Srivastava

@realolearycrew Appreciate the response, Brendan - and especially the transparency around working on a security white paper. That’s exactly the kind of clarity this space needs.

I also liked your “OpenClaw as my intern” framing. Treating the agent as a scoped contributor with defined boundaries, review loops, and separation of concerns is a much more mature way to think about agent autonomy than just giving it unrestricted access. That mindset - capability with deliberate containment - is what will ultimately build trust in hosted AI systems.

The capability vs. privacy trade-off is very real. If the white paper clearly maps data flow boundaries, retention policies, isolation guarantees, and exfiltration controls, I think it would set a strong standard for the ecosystem.

On a related note, I saw a tool created for same problem space - declaw, launched on Product Hunt today only. Haven’t tried it yet, but the premise of adding a local security layer in front of agents to filter outbound traffic seems interesting.

fmerian

thank you for the feedback!!

Jamal Hirani

@shivansh_anand_srivastava1 This is a really important point.

A lot of AI tooling conversations focus on convenience first and infrastructure second — but once sensitive workflows are involved, architecture matters more than UX.

We’ve seen a similar dynamic in fundraising infrastructure. Founders optimise for speed (more outreach, more automation), but the real risk sits in how capital exposure, data rooms, and investor interaction are structured underneath.

Clarity around:
– What data leaves the system
– Where it’s processed
– How logs are handled
– What is structurally retained

…is what separates “wrapper convenience” from institutional infrastructure.

Appreciate you raising this — these are the right questions for any platform that touches high-signal workflows.

fmerian

great feedback. the team is working on a security white paper to bring clarity here.

stay tuned!

Abdul Rehman
Finally. It's is incredible, but between dependency hell, unexpected bills, and the 3 a.m. 'why is it down again?' panic—running it myself was a second job. KiloClaw sounds like the exact off-ramp I’ve been waiting for.
Brendan O'Leary

@abod_rehman thanks!

fmerian

framing this! Let's spread the word on X

shreya chaurasia

Tried OpenClaw earlier and honestly couldn't get through the setup. It felt powerful but the time and infra needed to get it running was a blocker. I even needed my tech team to set it up, that didn't happen because we couldn't align the timing.

Would like to try KiloClaw to understand how this part is simplified.

fmerian

you're spot on, Shreya - hopefully @KiloClaw makes it easier (and faster) to fully leverage @OpenClaw.

do you already have specific needs/use cases in mind?

shreya chaurasia

@fmerian Yes definitely. I'd want help specifically around my GTM experiments. Testing messaging, structuring outbound angles, maybe even running small research loops faster.

fmerian

great ideas! looking forward to your thoughts

Brendan O'Leary

@shreya_chaurasia19 give it a try while it's in the free trial period and let us know what you think! OpenClaw is still so new and raw but we're hoping this helps smooth over some of the rough edges.

If you try it I'd be super interested in how well you think our beta has done that.

Brendan O'Leary

@OpenClaw finally showed us what a real personal AI might look like. But even as my non-technical friends started hearing about it the setup and maintenance of it was too cumbersome for developers - much less everyone.

That's why I'm so excited for KiloClaw. Up and running in a dedicated environment in seconds with no SSHing or figuring out API keys.

fmerian

@realolearycrew curious what are your favorite use cases using @OpenClaw?

Brendan O'Leary

@fmerian My favorite use cases are actually the ones where I treat it like an intern rather than giving it the keys to my whole life. My agent (ScuttleBot) has its own GitHub/GitLab accounts — it opens MRs, comments on code, and proposes changes under its own identity. I review everything before it merges. You get most of the value without handing over the keys to your digital life.

Full write-up here: https://blog.kilo.ai/p/open-claw-is-my-intern

fmerian

@realolearycrew insightful! follow-up question: what model would you recommend?

Andres Girault

@realolearycrew I have been enjoying my experience with Kiloclaw! Been trying it for a few days now.

fmerian

@realolearycrew  @andres_girault lfg!!1 above all, what's your favorite feature?

Leo

The gap between "this open source tool is incredible" and "I actually run it in production" is where most developer tools lose people. SSH, environment config, dependency juggling ... that's not the work anyone signed up for.

I've been through this exact cycle building my own infrastructure. You spend a weekend getting something deployed, it works great, then three weeks later a dependency update breaks it silently and you're back to debugging infra instead of building product. Curious about the 500+ AI models integration. How are you handling model-specific quirks in tool calling and context window management across that many providers? That's always been one of the trickiest parts in my experience.

fmerian

The gap between "this open source tool is incredible" and "I actually run it in production" is where most developer tools lose people. SSH, environment config, dependency juggling ... that's not the work anyone signed up for.

Spot on!

@KiloClaw is powered by @Kilo Code, an open-source product used 1.5M developers worldwide. You can learn more about it here: kilo.ai/gateway

Hope it helps!

Khashayar Mansourizadeh

Wow! that saves a lot of money and time, well done!

fmerian

S/O to the 🐐 @pandemicsyn  and the @Kilo Code team for building it!

fmerian

follow-up: please add your review here: producthunt.com/products/kiloclaw/reviews/new

Brendan O'Leary

@khashayar_mansourizadeh1 thanks! Yes I think the time savings are critical. Talk to me more about the money savings: while we do have the compute for free in the trial period, we'll obviously have to charge for the compute in the end. Do you still think there's value there (especially with our free inference providers in the Kilo Gateway)?

Zaid Alsaheb

I think this is a great step in increasing adoption of AI assitants like OpenClaw. As a developer the setup already takes me some time, so I can only imagine what its like for someone non-technical.

Brendan O'Leary

@haxybaxy exactly! I want my kids to be able to use it and have OpenClaw help us with family scheduling. But no way was I going to expect them to dive in and set it up

fmerian

@haxybaxy spot on!

OpenClaw is awesome. KiloClaw makes it accessible to everyone.

It's about time.

Ivan Zografski

a killer launch from the @Kilo Code team, congrats!
I have been trying other solutions in the past few weeks and this is definitely the most elegant and gives you loads of control.

Brendan O'Leary

@ivan_zografski thanks for the vote of confidence! We've tried a bunch as well, and really though that wrapping OpenClaw in our own proxy was the way to deliver it in a meaningful / value added way.

fmerian

that's awesome! make sure to leave a review here: producthunt.com/products/kiloclaw/reviews/new

Brian Turcotte

@OpenClaw is changing the landscape of AI, but for a lot of people the technical and security barriers are too high to use it comfortably. @KiloClaw solves this by handling the hosting, configuration, and model connections so you can use OpenClaw with no setup or maintenance headaches.

I'm excited for people who were intimidated by OpenClaw to finally see how awesome it is through KiloClaw!

fmerian

What's the original story behind @KiloClaw? What made you start working on it?

Brian Turcotte

@fmerian We saw the open-source community's excitement around OpenClaw - it was undeniable. But we also heard a lot of concerns about its security, setup, and costs. Since we already had Cloud Agent infrastructure and the Kilo Gateway (our native API provider with access to over 500 models), we knew we could offer a managed, hosted version that removed those barriers to entry.

Kilo is open-source to the core, and we are proud to be part of the OSS community - so when the OpenClaw project started taking off, we were eager to contribute.

@pandemicsyn is the engineer who built KiloClaw end-to-end, and did an incredible job making this vision a reality!

fmerian

@pandemicsyn  is a 🐐 - shout-out!

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