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Check out https://zo.computer - we've been doing OpenClaw for nearly a year, it works out of the box, and has hosting built-in. Zo arguably was the inspiration for Peter to create OpenClaw.

Zo Computer | Systems Engineer, Product Engineer | NYC or SF | Full-time

Imagine having an entire software company working just for you – housing all your personal data, proactively working in the background doing chores, building apps, and organizing information to support your life. It'll work around the clock, interact with people and businesses to make you more organized, capable, and creative.

We're building a new category of personal computing device – a personal cloud, built for personal agents (and the agentic internet to come). Our mission is to make private cloud computing accessible to everyone, by designing enduring abstractions and flexible infrastructure for consumers and their agents.

Systems Engineer: You should be proficient in Python, TypeScript, IaC, etc. and be an expert in distributed systems, storage/databases, networking, and containerization.

Product Engineer: You must be a generalist, and should be proficient in Python, TypeScript, coding with AI, and building AI products. You must have great taste in system, API, and UX design. You must have operating experience in early-stage startups. Former founders are preferred.

https://zo.computer/careers

Great post! Totally agree – agents like Claude Code make self-hosting a lot more realistic and low maintenance for the average dev.

We've gone a step further, and made this even easier with https://zo.computer

You get a server, and a lot of useful built-in functionality (like the ability to text with your server)

loved this so much i made a jeff dean persona for my AI: https://www.zo.computer/pub/persona/prs_WtLmiGHQmHqaMKIy

Especially relevant after the all the turbulence with 23andMe

This is cool! Check out https://zo.computer – a similar concept, with an IDE-like web UI

Planning! I actually prefer DIY planning prompt + docs, not planning mode. Wrote this article about it today actually: https://0thernet.substack.com/p/velocity-coding

today we're announcing Zo. when we came up with the idea – giving everyone a personal server, powered by AI – it sounded crazy. but now, even my mom has a server of her own. and it's making her life better. she thinks of Zo as her personal assistant. she texts it to manage her busy schedule, using all the context from her notes and files. she no longer needs me for tech support. she also uses Zo as her intelligent workspace – she asks it to organize her files, edit documents, and do deep research. with Zo's help, she can run code from her graduate students and explore the data herself. Zo has given my mom a real feeling of agency – she can do so much more with her computer. we want everyone to have that same feeling. we want people to fall in love with making stuff for themselves. in the future we're building, we'll own our data, craft our own tools, and create personal APIs. owning an intelligent cloud computer will be just like owning a smartphone. and the internet will feel much more alive.

thank you!

totally!!

amazing!! love this use case

so cool! thank you for sharing!!

oh that's a great idea, adding to the roadmap!

I also prefer Elk!

ahaha hi dalan good to see you here!

yup! just a targeted set of docs i compiled for the llm agent, pretty simple

I chose D2 as for our AI's "generate diagram" tool in https://zo.computer and it works quite well. I think the fact that D2 is more expressive than Mermaid is a useful property when doing AI-aided diagram generation.

true, unfortunately not supported in most markdown renderers... generally i've chosen d2 when i want a more intricate/custom diagram

D2 has been around for a while (and has been posted here before) but still surprisingly unknown. It's so much better than mermaid – giving them a boost with this post!

LLMs are seriously great for internal tools like this

Working on a combination note-taking app, cloud drive, and AI assistant, all on a server you own. You can vibe-code apps in your notebook, use your notebook's underlying filesystem, and serve apps to the public, all from your new cloud computer. Still early, but would love feedback!

https://www.zo.computer

After coding with AI for a while and trying a lot of tools, summarizing my high-level thoughts in this essay

Zo | Onsite | Brooklyn | Full-time | https://robc.substack.com/p/zo-computer

We're building a new kind of personal computer in the cloud, designed from first-principles for an AI named Zo that "lives" on your machine. You can write, do research, schedule tasks, run code, host sites and services, and much more, all from your Zo computer.

Our cofounders are Ben (early at Stripe 2015-2023) + Rob (first eng at Substack).

Looking for experienced, high-taste, high-agency generalist software engineers to form the founding team.

ben at substrate dot run

hop on board all are welcome even product managers and designers and 10yr old children

There's a new kind of coding I call "velocity coding", where you fully give into the computer, embrace exponentials, and forget that the ego even exists. It's possible because the LLMs are getting too good, but also, importantly, YOU had already gotten too good at software engineering. Before you were just a bored apathetic engineer at a big corporation, but now you've quit your job and you know you're going to raise an absolutely monster seed round, because you now have the productivity of 10 S-tier engineers from Eastern Europe, and you feel like a god. Your mind races constantly with tasks, which are now just prompts (everything is just a prompt, really) and your waking life has become so simple: you are always stream-of-consciousness typing into cursor, or claude code, or slack, or linear, it doesn't matter where, because you know it will end up in the cosmic assembly line of pure creation, for which you are just a vessel – a single token in the vast computation stream of the universe...

SEEKING FREELANCER | Substrate Labs | NYC or Remote | https://www.notion.so/Substrate-Labs-Founding-Engineer-2067b...

Founders Ben [0] and Rob [1] have been friends since meeting at Venmo in 2013. Ben worked at Stripe for 8 years. Rob worked at Fin (human-in-the-loop AI executive assistant, before LLMs) and was founding engineer at Substack. We started our first product, Substrate in 2023, a platform for building agentic workflows, and raised an $8M seed round led by Lightspeed [2]. We were pushing the envelope on both infra (serving multi-model workloads efficiently) and developer experience (ahead of our time in several ways) [3]. Though we found solid traction with startups, we realized inference was a red ocean especially upmarket, and decided to spin down the product/team at the end of 2024. We've spent the last 6 months prototyping and discarding ideas, and we’re now gearing up to launch our latest vision, a consumer AI application.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/bgdotjpg [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkcheung [2] https://lsvp.com/stories/substrate-building-compound-ai-syst... [3] https://docs.substrate.run/

Email me (ben [at] substrate) with your resume.

Substrate Labs | Founding Engineer | NYC or remote | https://www.notion.so/Substrate-Labs-Founding-Engineer-2067b...

Founders Ben [0] and Rob [1] have been friends since meeting at Venmo in 2013. Ben worked at Stripe for 8 years. Rob worked at Fin (human-in-the-loop AI executive assistant, before LLMs) and was founding engineer at Substack. We started our first product, Substrate in 2023, a platform for building agentic workflows, and raised an $8M seed round led by Lightspeed [2]. We were pushing the envelope on both infra (serving multi-model workloads efficiently) and developer experience (ahead of our time in several ways) [3]. Though we found solid traction with startups, we realized inference was a red ocean especially upmarket, and decided to spin down the product/team at the end of 2024. We've spent the last 6 months prototyping and discarding ideas, and we’re now gearing up to launch our latest vision, a consumer AI application.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/bgdotjpg [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkcheung [2] https://lsvp.com/stories/substrate-building-compound-ai-syst... [3] https://docs.substrate.run/

Email me (ben [at] substrate) with your resume. Competitive comp with meaningful equity.

beautiful docs + api ref! what are you using? (cool that you're doing open-source browserbase also, excited to check this out)

I tried LangChain for the first time. For a simple example chaining two LLMs, it takes 60% less code and runs faster on https://substrate.run

This is really cool! Both of my parents are cell biologists, and I've done some time in labs as well, so a lot of paper exploring and reading in the family. "Review" articles are a good index but something more on-demand makes a lot of sense, I can definitely see this being extremely useful.