The wild six weeks for NanoClaw's creator that led to a deal with Docker
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- Gavriel Cohen created NanoClaw as a secure, open-source alternative to OpenClaw after a weekend coding binge.
- NanoClaw gained viral attention after a post on Hacker News and praise from AI researcher Andrej Karpathy.
- Cohen closed his AI marketing startup to focus full-time on NanoClaw, launching NanoCo.
- NanoClaw has 22,000 GitHub stars, 4,600 forks, and over 50 contributors.
- Docker announced integration with NanoClaw, replacing Apple’s container tech with Docker Sandboxes.
- OpenClaw's security flaws, including unauthorized data access, prompted Cohen to build NanoClaw in just 500 lines of code.
- NanoClaw is based on isolated container tech to prevent unauthorized data access.
- NanoCo plans to offer commercial services like forward-deployed engineers but remains committed to open-source.
- The Cohen brothers are currently funded by a friends-and-family round, with VCs showing interest.