We turned manus into OpenClaw (it's running on iMessage)
Details
- External ID
- 47065685
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- We turned manus into OpenClaw (it's running on iMessage)
- Website domain
- twitter.com
- Launched
- Feb. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4865229110512129
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Roblox scripting and modding utilities
- Vertical
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- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- robotic hand controller on imessage
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The agent logic and chat wrappers are standard, but routing bidirectional messages through Apple's proprietary iMessage network requires specialized bridge infrastructure.
What it would actually take: The architecture relies on an agent orchestration loop (Manus/Python) bridged to an iMessage daemon running on a macOS server using AppleScript, private SQLite database polling (`chat.db`), or an open-source bridge like BlueBubbles. The hard part is managing macOS-specific permissions, iMessage rate limits, attachment uploads, and multi-threaded session state without getting banned or dropping packets. Requires macOS systems engineering and unofficial protocol reverse-engineering skills.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #40 of 77 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 112 days after the earliest competitor.
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- I've been running OpenClaw on a $640 Mac Mini for a week. Honest report · hn · 2026-02-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- NixOS on Hetzner with OpenClaw in 15 Minutes · hn · 2026-06-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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