Formerly known as Molt/ClawdBot
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What is OpenClaw?
OpenClaw (formerly MoltBot) is an open-source AI assistant that manages your life.We make it dead simple to run 24/7. Even if you've never touched a terminal.
Reschedules conflicts, books meetings, sends reminders.“Move my 3pm to next week”
Drafts responses in your voice, summarizes threads, flags what's urgent. You just approve and send.
Finds flights, checks you in, sends boarding passes.“Book me a flight to NYC next Tuesday”
Finds documents, organizes folders, extracts data from PDFs.“Find that contract from last month”
Your preferences, your projects, past conversations. It knows you. It gets better every day.
Shell scripts, API calls, browser automation. If you can do it on a computer, it can do it for you.
Talk to it from anywhere
No config, no terminal. Paste your bot token in the dashboard and your agent is live. Discord, Slack, and iMessage also available via OpenClaw.
Built-in setup
All channels supported via OpenClaw manual config.
Real use cases
Not marketing fluff. Real workflows running on Molted right now, built by the community.
Reads your emails, Slack, and tickets. Triages everything, sends one actionable summary per day.
You say:
“Every morning, send me a summary of my emails and DMs: what's urgent, what can wait, what you can reply to yourself.”
You get:
A Telegram message: "3 urgent / 7 can wait / 12 already handled". With links and pre-written replies.
Opens pages, fills forms, exports CSVs, takes screenshots. If it's repetitive and boring, it does it.
You say:
“Open my back-office, filter unpaid invoices, export the CSV, and send me a summary on WhatsApp.”
You get:
In your chat: "12 invoices to follow up, total $3,250". Plus the file, ready to go.
Monitors your #support channel, answers simple questions instantly, only escalates the hard ones.
You say:
“In #support, reply to every message. If confident, send it. If not, draft it and tag me.”
You get:
A DM summary: "Handled 23 tickets today. Here are the 3 I need you for."
What a power user looks like
OpenClaw lets you run multiple specialized agents from a single instance. Here's what a real setup looks like.
5
specialized agents
30+
messages/day
6
daily cron jobs
This could be your setup in 60 seconds.
Sound familiar?
You're not bad at this. The self-hosting process is just hard. Especially if you're not a developer.
It's misleading. Expect to spend hours if you're not a developer. I had to upgrade Node, install Homebrew, install Xcode, and manually update NPM before I could even run the installer.
Developer documenting their install attempt
'openclaw installed successfully!' was misleading. npm failed during installation, so the CLI was never properly installed. I got a success message, started onboarding, then got an error.
r/LocalLLM · 847 upvotes
My own experience was somewhere in the middle. Setup was manageable, but post-install behavior surprised me... the AI started taking actions that were technically within permissions I'd granted but not what I would have chosen.
Experienced developer on X/Twitter
You wanted an AI assistant, not a part-time job to make it work.
| Self-Hosting | Molted | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first message | 3-10 hours | 47 seconds |
| Security config | Manual (most skip it) | |
| When it crashes at 3am | Your problem | Our problem |
| API keys | Often exposed | Encrypted, never exposed |
| Updates | Manual | |
| Support | Reddit, maybe | <1 hour response |
OpenClaw is powerful AI that usually requires technical setup. With Molted, you skip all of that. No terminal. No code. No config files.
78%
of our users
have never used a terminal
847
OpenClaw instances exposed last month
Port 18789 open · API keys leaked · Found on Shodan
0 of them were ours.
We designed it that way. OpenClaw handles your calendars, emails, and passwords. Here's how we make sure nobody, including us, can access your data.
Your keys are encrypted with AES-256-GCM (authenticated encryption) before storage. Decryption only happens inside your isolated container. We never see the plaintext.
AES-256-GCM · per-instance key derivation
Each instance runs in its own isolated container with dedicated storage and network. No shared processes, no shared state. Your container can't see others, and others can't see yours.
Instance isolation · dedicated storage · no shared credentials
Every instruction sent to your instance is cryptographically signed with Ed25519. Your bot verifies the signature before executing anything. Forging commands is mathematically impossible.
Ed25519 signatures · per-instance key pairs
Files sync through presigned URLs scoped to a single file with a 5-minute TTL. Your container never stores infrastructure credentials. Even in a worst case, the blast radius is one file.
Presigned URLs · 5-min TTL · single-object scope
OpenClaw is open source. You can audit exactly what runs inside your container. No black boxes, no hidden code.
Why they switched to Molted
I spent 2 days trying to self-host OpenClaw. Dependency issues, firewall config, SSL certs... Molted had it running in under a minute. Now it checks me into flights and manages my calendar. Now it checks me into flights and manages my calendar.
Was running OpenClaw on my own VPS. Woke up to 3am crashes twice last month. Migrated to Molted - same bot, zero ops. Now it manages my email while I sleep. Actually sleep
Security was my concern with self-hosting. API keys exposed, port open... Molted handles all that. Encrypted, monitored, auto-patched.I just use my assistant.
OpenClaw is powerful. That's exactly why misconfigured instances are dangerous.
100s
Exposed instances monthly
Scanned daily on Shodan
18789
Default port, wide open
Scanned 50k+ times/day
$2.4k
Average API bill hijacked
From exposed keys
73%
Skip security config
I'll do it later
Someone scans port 18789, finds your exposed instance, extracts your API keys from memory or config.
$500-5000 in unauthorized API calls
OpenClaw has access to your calendar, emails, files. An exposed instance = all that data, accessible.
Personal data leaked, calendar scraped
OpenClaw can run shell commands. Wrong permissions = attacker runs commands on your machine.
Full system compromise possible
r/security
Posted 2 weeks ago
Did a Shodan scan for fun. Found hundreds of OpenClaw/MoltBot instances with port 18789 exposed. Most had default configs. Some had API keys in plain text environment variables.If you self-host, please at least put it behind a firewall. This is exactly why I switched to Molted
Security isn't a feature we added. It's why we exist.Starting at $5/month, you sleep at night.
Fully managed. Always on. Zero ops.
Perfect for individuals getting started
$60/year
For power users who need more
$144/year
For teams and businesses
$228/year
Use your Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, or Gemini API key. Or connect your Claude Pro/Max subscription for flat-rate pricing.
Not $700/month in API fees. Use what you already have.
You bring your own API key (Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Gemini).
Typical API cost: $10-30/month depending on usage.
You know how to self-host. You just don't want to.
Start actually using your AI.
3 clicks. 60 seconds. Your OpenClaw is live.You get the magic.
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