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Show HN: Eve – Managed OpenClaw for work
Eve is an AI agent harness that runs in an isolated Linux sandbox (2 vCPUs, 4GB RAM, 10GB disk) with a real filesystem, headless Chromium, code execution, and connectors to 1000+ services.
You give it a task and it works in the background until it's done.
I built this because I wanted OpenClaw without the self-hosting, pointed at actual day-to-day work. I’m thinking less personal assistant and more helpful colleague.
Here’s a short demo video: https://www.loom.com/share/00d11bdbe804478e8817710f5f53ac61
The main interface is a web app where you can watch work happen in real time (agents spawning, files being written, use of the CLI). There's also an iMessage integration so you can fire a task asynchronously, put your phone down, and get a reply when it's finished.
Under the hood, there's an orchestrator (Claude Opus 4.6) that routes to the right domain-specific model for each subtask: browsing, coding, research, and media generation.
For complex tasks it spins up parallel sub-agents that coordinate through the shared filesystem. They have persistent memory across sessions so context compounds over time.
I’ve packaged it with a bunch of pre-installed skills so it can execute in a variety of job roles (sales, marketing, finance) at runtime.
Here are a few things Eve has helped me with in the last couple days:
- Edit this demo video with a voice over of Garry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4oD7H3cAQ0
- Do my tax returns
- To build HN as if it was the year 2030: https://api.eve.new/api/sites/hackernews-2030/#/
AMA on the architecture and lmk your thoughts :)
P.S. I've given every new user $100 worth of credits to try it.
“All .new domain names are required to comply with the .new Registration Policy, which features a usage-based restriction to ensure that all domains are being used for new actions. That means that all .new domains registrations must: Be used for action generation or online content creation; Take the user directly into the action generation or content creation flow; Resolve to the action within 100 days of registration;* and Allow Google Registry to verify compliance at no cost. While anyone can register, domains that don’t comply with this usage policy may be suspended or deleted by Google Registry without refund. So be sure you review the full .new Registration Policy before you register your .new domain to ensure that it meets our policy requirements.”
This seems like it could trivially comply with the requirements with a minor restructuring of the onboarding flow. I can't use playlist.new without having a spotify account, for instance.
Thanks! I wasn't aware of that
It wants me to login with my Google and all it says on the front is "Your Digital Worker" (with only other links being TOS and Privacy Policy). Sorry but that's not quite good enough.
I connected on my iphone. Didn’t connect it to any tools initially and used my throwaway email, as I need to be more comfortable before connecting anything real. Clean interface. I really like the sms connection and could see how that would appeal to less AI tech savvy users. You have done some good planning and UX/Ui. Thanks for sharing
Cheers!
Just gave this a try and I really like it. Was able to interact with Eve via iMessage and web UI to download a sample healthcare dataset and run some analyses on it. (Currently it's a bit unpredictable about which UI it returns results to, but if that gets fixed then this would be great for doing development on the move.) Also set it up to run some scheduled news summarisation tasks. I like how it allows for safe experimentation on OpenClaw functionality. Like others on this thread, I'm a bit hesitant about connecting to email services without knowing more about the developer and how they use data from connected services, but there's a lot of interesting things you can do with this even without connecting to anything. (The free credits are v helpful too, although the underlying Claude models burn through them quickly.) Thanks zachdive for sharing this, I had fun trying it out!
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks sm for the feedback! Working on inter-agent rn, so it should be more deterministic about where it surfaces results back very soon!
Boom, eve got Doom running for me on my VM and even spun up a public site
https://api.eve.new/api/sites/eve-doom/
hosting user content on the main domain seems like a Bad Idea..
Vibeslop
haha yea was pretty surprised by that too. wondered if it would be based on my auth session, but nope!
Although now it's a fun battle to see if I can convince my eve to deploy Doom again and block others from overwriting it.
edit: Doom is back and we'll see how long the prompt engineering keeps it there
Careful folks, some users may encounter a short ear piercing loud buzzing sound as it boots up and initializes sound. For a moment, my soul left my body there ha ha. Turn your volume down before launching.
hahah true
"i updated the content of this website because the agent allows you to overwrite previous deployments"
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EDIT: Okay now I'm very confused, I'm seeing a slopjank version of Hacker News?
I'm seeing the same thing, both of the /api/sites/ links in this thread seem to be defaced
sickkk!
you can spin similar instances very cheaply and billed only for the time openclaw actually runs in https://shellbox.dev ($0.02 for 2vcpu, 4gb ram, 50gb hdd, real linux with headless chrome etc)
https://sprites.dev as well (it’s a fly.io product). They look suspiciously identical…
Didn't someone post recently that his team was unable to get OpenClaw to do anything productive ($) no matter the project?
this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721955
Yup, that one.
Let me just log into this random site with my Google account with literally zero information about what it is
Yikes and a link in their post just downloads a file. I don't like this.
Hey my bad, it's fixed now! Eve deployed it on my account as a static site (hosted in cloudflare R2) but the cloudflare worker wasn't pointing at it correctly, which led to a weird fallback behavior from cloudflare where it just gives back an empty file (zero bytes). Fixed :)
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Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, this looks interesting, but there's so little info on this site, and you're expecting me to give you access to my email, slack, github? Even if I had more info, it would be pretty hard for me to trust a person/company I don't know at all, with that kind of power.
Lol fair! There is sign up with email!
Any more info I could provide upfront?
Autonomous LLM agents are not ready for business. Full stop.
Curious, why don't you think?
Prompt injection attacks and hallucinations haven't been solved for.
That's why you don't let agents act unsupervised. I built atmita.com with an approval layer where every action gets reviewed before it executes. Doesn't solve hallucinations, but it contains them.
When linking my Google Mail, Composio was asking for some concerning data (DOB, exact street address). I noped out of that
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It's very telling of the current state of this industry that OP comes only 2 h after this other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721955
Do you have a personal take on this?
What does it tell us exactly?
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Please do not post AI generated replies on this site.
See: Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079
I think this boils down to the ICP of white collar workers.
Mainly: - It make it super accessible to begin using the agent with no setup friction - Mitigates security concerns by users not comfortable with using openclaw for their job