BetterClaw
Deploy AI Agent, 60 seconds & $0 forever
5.0•13 reviews•893 followers
Deploy AI Agent, 60 seconds & $0 forever
5.0•13 reviews•893 followers
BetterClaw is a no-code platform for building AI agents that run on a schedule without you. Connect Gmail, Slack, or Telegram, and your agent triages inbox, sends morning briefings, or monitors what you care about. Agents start as Interns that ask before acting. Bring your own AI key and it's genuinely $0.
OpenClaw
BetterClaw
Hey PH, I'm Shabz, one of the people behind BetterClaw.
BetterClaw is a no-code platform for building AI agents that actually run on their own. Connect your tools, describe what you want, and it's live in 60 seconds.
Why we built it
I spent months in the OpenClaw subreddit helping people set up their agents. Hundreds of them.
And the pattern was always the same.
Someone discovers AI agents. Gets genuinely excited. Their eyes light up when their agent sends its first message.
Then they lose an entire weekend to Docker and config files.
And they're gone before week two.
The AI part was incredible. The infrastructure part was quietly killing it.
So we kept asking: why should anyone need to become a sysadmin just to use an AI agent?
They shouldn't. So we removed that part entirely.
What makes it different
60-second deploy - no Docker, no YAML, no VPS, no terminal. We timed it.
95+ one-click OAuth integrations - Gmail, Calendar, Slack, HubSpot, GitHub, Jira, Meta Ads, Linear and more. Real OAuth, not "paste a webhook and pray."
Trust levels - every agent starts as an Intern that asks permission for everything. Promote it to Specialist, then Lead, as it earns your trust. Handing an AI full system access on day one is wild, and somehow that's the default everywhere else.
Secrets auto-purge - AES-256 encrypted, and gone from agent memory after 5 minutes.
BYOK, zero markup - bring your own LLM key. Pair it with a free model (Gemini, OpenRouter, Groq) and your total cost is genuinely $0.
Not "$0 but you need a server." Zero.
Who it's for
Founders, ops and support teams, recruiters, agencies, and tbh, anyone non-tech who's tired of doing the same thing 50 times a week.
What people are building
Meta + Google Ads spend vs Stripe revenue → daily ROAS in Slack
Gmail lead → scored, enriched into HubSpot, call booked
Zendesk tickets → answered from your product data, only edge cases escalated
Search Console → finds page-one pages losing clicks (grew our own site 1.6K → 7.9K clicks in a month)
Stripe declines → follow-up drafted, recovery tracked
PostHog drop-off → cross-checked in Salesforce → owner pinged pre-renewal
Huge thanks to @rohanrecommends for hunting us, and to the PH team for building a place where small teams get a real shot
And to Tina, Varsha, Aniket and everyone who poured months into this - this one's yours too. ❤️
🎁 For PH folks: use code PH3 for 3 months of Pro at $49.
We'd genuinely love your feedback - especially on what you'd want an agent to handle first. I'll be in the comments all day. Ask me anything, including the stuff we haven't figured out yet. 👇
→ betterclaw.io
@better_shaya Congrats on the launch, Shabnam! The "simple and secure" combo is the hard part with agent deployment — curious how you're handling permissioning/sandboxing for agents in a shared workspace?
BetterClaw
@chetan00118 Great Question Chetan. Each agent gets a secure container, with its own filesystem. Agent within same workspace get separate container.
All secrets/connector calls are proxied through third party systems, Oauth tokens are never touched by agents.
Ctruh Studio
@rohanrecommends @better_shaya All the best for the launch! Following this. :)
BetterClaw
@rohanrecommends @sharun_kanan Thanks a lot Sharun for supporting the launch :)
@rohanrecommends @better_shaya Congratulations on the launch!! Very good onboarding flow.
PicWish
@rohanrecommends @better_shaya when using the 95+ oauth connections, what happens if an API rate limits the agent midtask?
BetterClaw
@rohanrecommends @mohsinproduct This is a great edge case and we encountered this while testing ourselves. The sub-agents/agent will wait on the timeout (assuming its within limits of few mins, else escalate the same to human)
BetterClaw
@mohsinproduct good question. we hit this a lot during testing ourselves. the agent doesn't crash or lose progress, it waits and retries gracefully. if it can't resolve it escalates to you instead of guessing 👍
@rohanrecommends @better_shaya
The trust-level framing is the right instinct, and the exchange in the comments about verifying downstream state instead of trusting a connector's success response is the part that actually matters long term. An agent that says 'done' and an agent that is actually done are not the same claim, and most tools conflate them. Keeping Chrome automation gated at Intern until that gap closes is the honest call, even if it slows the roadmap. Trust in an agent should track what it can prove, not what it reports.
BetterClaw
@michael_vavilov Thanks! This is the part we went back and forth on the most.
Right now promotion is manual, not automatic. You review what the agent's been doing and promote it when you're comfortable. We deliberately didn't auto-promote on "X approvals in a row" because approving 20 low-stakes actions doesn't tell you much about how it'll handle the 21st one that actually matters. The trust you build watching it work is more informative than a counter.
BetterClaw
@michael_vavilov Thanks Michael 🙌 Right now you set the level yourself rather than the agent earning it, so you can move an agent up or down anytime based on how much you trust it with a task. Auto-promotion off a clean approval streak is something we've been kicking around though.
Swytchcode
This is intersting. Does it also clean unwanted notifications after summarizing..... like I love to see Linkedin notifications. But deleting all of them manually is a task. Can you do that?
BetterClaw
@chilarai We can do that. We have an integration for chrome (in beta), which can connect with local chrome instance and take any action you would like it to take autonomously
I like the idea of scheduled agent handling small repetitive task without needing another dashboard open all day.
BetterClaw
@awesome_america Thanks Amelia! That was honestly the whole motivation. Most automation tools just move the work rather than remove it, you end up checking a dashboard to see if the thing that was supposed to save you time actually ran.
Ours reports into wherever you already are. Slack, Telegram, email. If nothing needs your attention, you don't hear from it. That felt like the right default :)
BetterClaw
@awesome_america heartbeat scheduling was one of the first features we built because we were tired of agents running 24/7 when they only needed to work twice a day. glad that clicked with you 😊
BetterClaw
@awesome_america Thanks Amelia! That's honestly the feature we lean on most ourselves. We have one agent that pulls our search data three times a week and drops a summary in Slack. Nobody opens a dashboard for it anymore.
SoundGate Guitar
As an agent gets promoted from Intern to Specialist/Lead, can you set granular custom rules for what actions trigger a permission prompt, or is it based on predefined roles? Super excited to see where you take this!
BetterClaw
@aren_barseghyan Right now it's role-based rather than fully granular. Each trust level has a defined scope, and skills are toggled individually per agent, so you can restrict what an agent can touch even at a higher level.
What you're describing, custom rules for what specifically triggers a prompt, is the thing we keep coming back to. Something like "always ask before anything leaves the company" or "ask on any action touching a contact tagged VIP." That's more useful than a blanket level because the risk isn't uniform across actions.
Not built yet. It's the most requested thing from this thread so far. Curious what rule you'd want first, that would help us pick where to start.
I ran into what seems like a loop bug when retrying the agents. I initially tried it with a Groq API key, and even after switching to a Gemini API key, I kept getting the same error:
“The agent hit an unexpected error while responding.”
I’m not sure if the issue is with my API keys or something else in the retry flow, but sharing it here in case it helps you guys identify what’s going on
BetterClaw
@matheusdsantosr_dev Thanks for flagging this properly, that's a genuinely useful report.
The fact that it persisted across both Groq and Gemini keys suggests it's not your keys, it's likely something in our retry flow swallowing the real error and surfacing a generic message instead. That string is far too vague to be useful to you, which is on us.
Could you reach out to hello@betterclaw.io, or use the support button on the left-hand side in the app? That gets it to the team with your agent ID attached so we can pull the actual gateway logs and see what's hiding behind that message.
In the meantime, if you want to unblock: try spinning up a fresh agent rather than retrying the existing one. If it's stuck in a retry loop it'll usually keep hitting the same wall.
@better_shaya Thanks for looking into it! I’ll reach out through the support button with the agent ID and give the fresh agent a try in the meantime. 🙌
BetterClaw
@matheusdsantosr_dev Perfect, thank you. The team will pick it up from there. And do let me know if the fresh agent works, that'll tell us whether it's stuck retry state or something deeper in the flow.
I like the idea of agents as Interns. That approval step could make this mucg easier to trust especially when connecting Gmail or Slack for the first time.
BetterClaw
@lilydigital Hi, Totally agree. Giving people that moment to review and approve an action makes connecting things like Gmail or Slack feel a lot less risky. It’s a big part of building trust before giving the agent more autonomy. 🙌
BetterClaw
@lilydigital Thanks Lily! Gmail and Slack are exactly where that matters most. Those are the two connections people hesitate on, understandably, because the downside of a mistake is visible to other people.
Running at Intern for the first week or so on those means you see every draft before it goes anywhere. Most people promote once they realize they've been approving everything unchanged.