ClawCon LA

ClawCon in LA was a pleasant surprise! I only realized yesterday around 3 PM that it was happening, and I’m glad I caught it. It was inspiring to see the vibrant community that @msg and the team have put together in such a short time.

A few highlights:

• here.now by Adam Ludwin. This is one of the first “agent-first” tools I started using months ago—a fast way for your agents to host a webpage. The most fun part about his presentation was that it reminded me very much of John Britton’s first-ever Twilio Live Demo at New York Tech Meetup (2010): get on stage, fire up a terminal window, prompt the crowd with a question and show off how your product solves it in minutes – live!
• Friend Jonathan Wegener (of Timehop fame! disclosure: i’m one of the first investors) showed off how Claude led him to finding a radio device that could remotely read his electricity monitor. That reignited my interest in ADS-B – turns out some of these devices can also read and report back on those signals. (I’ve been meaning to spin up a quick hack around this so that I can quickly get alerted to helicopters and planes flying over my house).
• seafloor.bot – A quick way to host an openclaw in the cloud (reminds me of exe.dev) – I mention it because it probably is a very easy way for a newbie (who doesn’t have much tech experience and who doesn’t want to spin up a Mac Mini) to start exploring an agent.
• chaosmarkets.ai – A few people are wondering what arbitrage opportunities are there: what if I can feed an agent all sorts of data about a particular vertical, allow it to keep crawling while I’m asleep, and then derive insights/edges that I can use to invest? He’s building a cool platform where he can put together multiple agents – each with a focus on a particular data set and vertical. It was a very polished pitch and it made me wonder, if your regular hacker is doing these things in his house, imagine the stuff the teams on Wall Street are doing right now with all these new tools. Or, have they always had all this and us regular folks are just now tapping into it because we can fire up a team of agents and point them somewhere?

I ran into four or five friends, who each introduced me to a few more. It’s rare for me in LA to have five friends from different parts of the city all in one room (without our kids!). It was genuinely great to feel that kind of spontaneous, buzzing crowd energy again.

Great job to @msg, Wegener and team for pulling this one off.