[bananaboy]

There were some comments somewhere below about that virality being bought though. I don't know how true that is or where those commenters got their information. If you look at google trends though there is practically no mention of ClawdBot before around January 23, even though the project was released in November.

[bogtap82]

It was renamed many times. It was also called "clawdis" at one point, and prior to that "warelay," when it was simply a Whatsapp gateway for Claude Code. It was already gaining some momentum at that point but wouldn't reflect as search results for "Clawdbot," and especially wouldn't be visible on Google Trends when most of the conversation was on X/Github.

[dieortin]

Even if the conversation was on other sites, people would still search for it.

[aixpert]

he likely poured oil into the flame investing a few hundred bucks to double the virality

[spaceman_2020]

and according to HN, somehow that's a bad thing? Like making your own project more popular and successful using your own resources is...bad?