[Frannky]

I want to use OpenClaw, but it seems like a mess. I want to use glam coding plan as the backend with the since it's cheap. I found ZeroClaw to be an interesting option, maybe hosted on Hetzner. I don't want to give it access to my stuff—I just need it to remind me of things and call APIs that do stuff (like looking for papers and converting them into audio, or suggesting a grocery list—all behind APIs), and talk to me via WhatsApp/telegram. I was also thinking about making a FastAPI server that Claw can call instead of using skills.

Has anyone tried something like this? Do you think it's a good idea / architecture?

[Alifatisk]

I had Openclaw running in a separate machine on glm coding plan and connected to its own Whatsapp account. Worked fine. However, Openclaw sucks at reminding. It could barely handle cron jobs at all. My workaround for it was to instruct it to add reminders to its heartbeat.md with a clause to run when a certain datetime is passed (heartbeat is run every 30m).

[Frannky]

Have you tried less bloated claws?