Nathaniel Whittemore

It's basically a system that allows people to turn cloud code into an actual personal assistant.

A post on starryhope.com reads, At its core, Cloudbot is an open-source AI agent that runs on your own hardware.

Unlike ChatGPT or Cloud's web interfaces, which process everything on remote servers, Cloudbot operates locally with a gateway that connects AI models to the apps and services you already use.

It can talk to you through WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, and even iMessage.

But the real magic is what it can do once it's running.

Given the right permissions, Cloudbot can browse the web, execute terminal commands, write and run scripts, manage your email, check your calendar, and interact with any software on your machine.

Perhaps the most compelling feature is that Cloudbot is self-improving.

Tell it you want a new capability, and it can often write its own skill or plugin to make it happen.

One user wanted access to university course assignments.

He asked Cloudbot to build a skill for it.

Cloudbot did and then started using it on its own.

Now, some are a little skeptical.

Former NVIDIA engineer Boyan Tunggu said, I'm as excited as the next guy about the possibilities of CloudBot running on a cluster of small local mini computers.

But 99% of all use cases that I've seen so far concern the corporate BS jobs and tasks, summarizing email, posting on Slack, adding meetings to a calendar that shouldn't exist at all.

This is not what has people excited though.

Nat Eliason responded saying, yeah, those uses are a waste of its potential in my opinion.

And Nat would know because he went viral when he posted a picture of a Mac Mini about a week ago and said, hired my first employee today.

He followed up writing, yeah, this was 1000% worth it.

Separate Claude, that's the C-L-A-U-D-E version, plus Claude, the C-L-A-W-D, managing Claude code and codex sessions I can kick off anywhere, autonomously running tests on my app, and capturing errors through a Sentry webhook, then resolving them and opening PRs.

Basically, Nat has this set up to be working around the clock on a new agent that he's building to automate agency-level content creation.