Automation with Clawdbot

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2:29So I want to break down what developers are doing with CloudBot right now and kind of where I see the future of this. Essentially, it's an autonomous AI model that lives on your device, so on your computer, and it goes and completes actions for you. now this sort of sounds familiar because we have things like chat gpt agents but that sort of lives inside of chat gpt and then we have um you know we have like different things inside of browsers like there's like a uh anthropics clod uh browser extension that can sort of do some things for you so anyways all of these things are kind of coming together this is a really interesting new project uh so i'll break down everything going on here and where i think this will go in the future but before we do jamie why don't you tell us about the school community yeah so if you've ever wanted to make money on the side or even grow your business using AI, you need to check out our school community.

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4:02So we release bonus content every single week. We have a variety of different categories. But like I said, right now we're focusing on vibe coding and we have a course coming out of that. So if that interests you, check it out. But let's talk about this Claudebot. I think this is a really interesting concept. I actually ran into a scenario recently where I wish I had something like Claudebot. And that is on Instagram, I made a post about, I wanted to do a poll of how many people live in West Michigan that follow me on Instagram. I'm trying to grow a realtor business, and so I want to reach out to those people with an offer.

4:42I was planning on using ManyChat, which is like an auto-respond tool that's connected to Instagram, but it won't do survey response. If people check to a survey, I have to manually go in and send them a message but if i had something like claude bot i could have it actually perform the action for me which is pretty exciting so jayden why don't you tell us a little bit more about claude bot okay so what a lot of people are doing with this and and the tweets that are going viral on x about this is people saying they bought they buy like a macbook or they buy a mac mini computer and then so it's its own separate computer and then they get claude bot and they run it they set it up on here and they give it tasks and jobs and it will just run them full time it has full access of the computer everything on the device in reality you don't need a mac mini if you're I mean you technically can run this thing on a raspberry pi but if you're not a developer you probably don't want to mess around with that but you could run on a virtual private computer as well which it's easy to set up a virtual private computer and have this thing downloaded and running on so what it can do it runs on your device and it can work with any chat app so it It can do WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, or iMessage.

5:54And it can message those things. So what a lot of people are doing is they're going to set it up with a task like, hey, every time I, you know, for example, for Jamie and I would be like, every time I record podcasts, go grab the podcast from our, from Riverside, do these edit features for us, and then download the podcast and put it into this folder. And we probably could then get it to upload it and like just go through the whole process of what we need it to do. Like it becomes, because it can control the entire computer, the entire device, it can do everything. And it has root access, has full access to read and write files, which I mean, to people is like kind of scary, right?

6:28Like if you give it root access to your computer, but especially if you're running on its own device, it can go. And this thing can run 24 seven. So you could just give it all of these tasks. I mean, it's, it's like a new way of automating software. Basically any, any job that you're trying to automate, this thing can run 24 seven, just completing tasks on a computer. It has persistent memory. So it remembers everything you tell about it. You tell it. So it's like very unique. Your preferences, your context, everything is all remembered there. And then it has browser control. So it can go on the internet.

6:58It can search the web. It can fill out forms. You can extract data from any website. So it's like a scraper. It's a bot. It can take actions for you. And then what's really cool is that it can be plugged into a whole bunch of different software and plugins. so they have a list of like all of the integrations that it currently works with so currently it's got a bunch of the the chat models that i talked about it integrates with anthropic open ai google xai open router mistral deep seek how you face replexi a bunch of those uh then for productivity it's got like apple notes it's got trello github notion um for music it can do spotify and shazam for your smart home it can do like philips hue and eat sleep your home assistants uh it can do all of your chrome browsers it can do um gmail weather password web hooks it can do cron jobs developers that's pretty cool it's like scheduled tasks basically um image generation gift searching cameras twitter it can go and like reply to people on twitter if we need more twitter spam i don't so.

8:04But it also can read and send emails, which is really interesting. And then it works on Mac, iOS, Android, Windows, and Linux. And yeah, it's amazing. Okay, this is cool. And to set this thing up, you do kind of need to be a developer. I mean, you have to you could watch a tutorial probably and get it pretty, pretty quickly. But like, if you have an aversion to code, then just know that these same tools are going to be coming out very soon for non developers. And and like, just start thinking today about we're in such a bubble and I think people on the cutting edge of this are really cutting edge but just start thinking about like what are the tasks I could get this thing to complete like like what what tasks do people normally normally do all day every day like you can train this thing to do that and as these things get better at clicking and understanding like this is the system that people are going to use to fully automate a job role like a office job role basically.

8:59Yeah. So just to clarify something that's different about this compared to like, um, you know, the Atlas browser or something like that is that you can go outside of your browser and actually interact with files on your computer. Is that, that the main, uh, benefit? Okay. Okay. Is it in, is this the first of its kind or just what's, what's going viral about this specifically? What use cases are people doing, uh, with this right now currently? So the one interesting one from like an hour ago on X I saw was Kevin Zhu. He said, gave Claudebot access to my portfolio, trade this to a million dollars, don't make mistakes.

9:3425 strategies, 3 ,000 reports, 12 new algorithms. It scanned every X post, charted every technical, traded 24-7. It lost everything. But boy, was it beautiful. Okay. That's not a joke. But like, I think in this joke is a concept of what it can do, right? like trade this to a million dollars. Don't make mistakes. Don't make mistakes is kind of the meme of like that you tell Claude, don't make mistakes. And of course it's gonna make mistakes. But so don't give it like a grow my business 10X tomorrow. Like don't give it like a job like that, but give it like a job. And what inside of this, what he said is possible.

10:09It can create 25 strategies. It can create 3000 reports. It can create new algorithms. It can scan every post on X and work 24 seven. So like it is very useful. and it's got a lot of cool things. There was another, I kind of, X is so bad because this is like super useful and insanely useful, but there's so many memes coming out about it. One of the funny ones that I saw was someone saying like, feeling very demoralized after setting up Claudebot, I realized that there's nothing in my life I do that, like nothing very important that I actually do on my life that's worth automating or something like, it's not that, not high enough value.

10:46But yeah, there is some, there is some really cool stuff. Okay, here's one that someone said. They said, Just to see what would happen, I texted someone my Claude bot to make a reservation for me next Saturday at a restaurant. When the OpenTable reservation wasn't working, it used its 11Lab skill to call the restaurant and completed the reservation and was able to do that. So like, yes, you could use OpenTable, but OpenTable wasn't working or something's not working or something's broken. Or I mean, a lot of ideas you have, there isn't another way to do it. So is there other softwares or tools or things that sort of work?

11:19Yes, but this feels like the first platform that is all-encompassing and can connect to everything and take control of an actual computer. And one thing I will say, it's called CloudBot, but it's not made by Anthropic. You can connect Cloud to it, but you can also connect Google or OpenAI or a lot of other things. It's just an indie dev that made this. Yeah, it's C-L-A-W-D-Bot. So not C-L-A-U-D-E, it's C-L-A-W-D. But yeah, interesting. yeah that the i would be interested to see if it could do any trading for you if you do like paper trading just with imaginary money uh obviously you'd want to do that first but just to see if it can actually make a positive difference or not but that's a funny use case um so one other thing that i will say um about clodbot is that um there's a lot of yeah like There's a lot of very interesting things that you can do with it for sure.

12:15And I've had people like one of them that I saw someone was talking about was like they would have it every day go check their calendar. And it would like make like a little report that it would text them because it works with every messaging app. So basically he'd get a text every morning with like his meetings and like anything he needed to prepare for them. So like you could do things like that where it's going and checking on different services and sending you messages. it's like it feels like it's kind of replacing n8n or zapier where you set up these like really complex automations that could go do something now you just have an ai model that you don't have to go on zapier you don't have to mess around you just explain what you want it to do and it will go and accomplish all of the tasks for you yeah no that's that's super cool idea um i'm definitely going to be playing around with it to see what i could come up with i wonder if you could have it help you uh manipulate your ai streaming music streaming hustle since it can interact with Spotify if you could have it like bot stream your your stuff you know I do not endorse uh bot streaming you'll get banned when I was a young lad that was definitely something that was interesting to me and no good ever came of it and everything got banned so don't I don't endorse it but um yeah I mean there's a lot of interesting things you could do it definitely could help me edit music and post music and yeah and do a lot of the processing of that kind of stuff.

13:35So I do think there's a lot of interesting, a lot of interesting tools and stuff you could get this thing working on. So that's pretty cool. Well, hey, if you appreciate this episode at all, or got any value out of it, we would love a rating or review wherever you listen. Those really help our podcast reach more people. And we really appreciate those. And don't forget to check out our AI Hustle School community. If you want to specifically focus on vibe coding and learn a little bit, we have a course coming out over there. And we'd love to have you be a part of it. Thanks for listening, and I'll see you next time.

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