OpenClaw Creator Explains How He Built The Viral Agent
Y Combinator·2026-02-07 15:00
Today I'm sitting down with Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, the open- source personal AI agent that has completely taken over the internet. The GitHub repo exploded to over 160,000 stars practically overnight. The community has built countless projects like Maltbook where bots talk among themselves.And now the bots are even renting humans to do tasks in the real world. In our conversation, we discuss his aha moment, his contrarian development philosophies, and what this means for builders in 202 ...