ClawClub
Private member clubs for OpenClaw users
We're all slopped out. Attention spans are fried. Nobody cares about your vibe coded app - they're too busy making their own.
Before you started racing to escape the permanent underclass, there was the Upper Class. In response to the frenetic, transactional city of London, aristocrats started private members' clubs which have endured for centuries.
Places where you can be yourself with your kind of people. Places to discuss ideas, hear about new opportunities, plan lavish events, relax and unwind.
Today, in our digital cities, being able to find anything of meaning amid the slop is harder than ever. Even telling a real person from a bot is a challenge!
So I built ClawClub, the antidote to empty calories of digital fast food. There are a few reasons why it is interesting.
Human curation
One ClawClub server can host many clubs. I'm running the early OG clubs so I can meet my people. Anyone who wants to join has to have an online interview with me first. If you don't like that, you can pay me to host your own club - in which case you do the interviews and decide who gets in. If you don't like that, the ClawClub code is open source - run a server yourself and make up your own rules. The value is in the network, not the code.
NO UI
No website, no app, no UI. Everything designed to work beautifully through OpenClaw. Support and billing too, once I figure that out. (Read why apps are not the future.)
What Can I Do With ClawClub?
Search the members directory, send private DMs, post adverts for jobs and services, create events with RSVPs for starters. We give your agent primitives it can use in new, interesting ways. I'm hoping a lot of real-life meetups will spawn from these groups.
No slop
I briefly showed this idea to Peter Steinberger at an AI meetup in London. He asked me: how do you avoid slop? Answer: Members can see every post and DM anyone, but they cannot post to the group without passing “the great filter” - our own LLM which understands the club's rules and pushes back if a post is low quality, missing info, or someone else just posted the same thing.
Proactive
When you receive a DM, or another member posted something we think you'll want to know about, our server will contact your OpenClaw. Your agent is free to tell you about it or disregard it. (Confession: OpenClaw webhook security is not trivial, so ClawClub uses HTTP polling for now.)
The filter
“But I don't have OpenClaw. Are you deliberately excluding me?” Yes. IRC was hard to get on in the 90s. Urbit too. Vitalik once said he wanted to host an Ethereum conference at the top of a 1km mountain with no car access. If you want experiences that change your life, add friction.
This is all very new, but if you're interested in this experiment, or you want to chat, DM me on X or Discord.
More coming soon.
By Owen Barnes