In January I set up OpenClaw and called it Alfi. Self-hosted Claude agent on a 3 EUR/month Hetzner box, running in Telegram with persistent memory and its own IP.First use case was a group chat with my girlfriend where we'd drop in places we wanted to visit and get reminders. "Tell me when the weather in Gran Canaria drops below 20 degrees, so I'm prepared" Then tracking my sister's flight when she came to visit. Small things.It felt sharper than stock Claude Code at the time. The difference wasn't the Hetzner box, it was the tools I'd wired in. Where a vanilla Claude session would say:I can see X is available in Poland. Check Allegro for prices, should be there.Alfi, with a browser installed and a permission profile that didn't stop to ask me every step, said:This is available in Poland. I wanted to check prices but WebFetch got blocked by Allegro. I'm installing a browser to check directly, I'll be back soon.So I kept adding tools. Google Drive. Docs. Access to our company files.…
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