An open-source AI agent framework built for local self-hosting and everyday messaging apps has drawn an enormous wave of community activity, logging 100,000 GitHub issues and pull requests in just 222 days through volunteer work spanning multiple time zones.
What a ride.
🦞 #100000
100,000 issues + PRs in 222 days.
🛠️ built by volunteers 🌍 every timezone, every day 🧡 zero VC, one lobster
Number 100000 itself? A community bug report. We'll fix that one too.
Thank you for building this with us.
The entire milestone arrived from unpaid contributors alone, with the project lead explicitly avoiding venture capital to preserve independence under a planned open-source foundation model.
With activity at this pace the project is shifting governance structures to stay manageable, even as OpenAI offers sponsorship after the creator joined the company to work on agents.
Many users praised OpenClaw reaching 100k issues and PRs in 222 days as an inspiring volunteer-driven milestone without VC support, while a few dismissed the volume as embarrassing or unremarkable.
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@openclaw I don't know if this is good or bad. Actually, I have been wasting months trying to work with agents that are buggy , too many features and too little stability. But keep on your work. You made a great job.
@openclaw Greatest software I’ve ever had the pleasure of using. Thank you.
@openclaw 100k issues + PRs I'm not sure that's something to be proud of tho
🦞 #100000
100,000 issues + PRs in 222 days.
🛠️ built by volunteers 🌍 every timezone, every day 🧡 zero VC, one lobster
Number 100000 itself? A community bug report. We'll fix that one too.
Thank you for building this with us.
@openclaw I wonder what “zero VC” means
@thomasunise warelay worked in the first hour. But then the real work started.
@openclaw 100,000 PRs and still no PR about fixing my sleep schedule lmaoo. Congrats though, genuinely impressive milestone
@openclaw Keep Building 🦞
@openclaw What a ride!
@openclaw 100,000 in 222 days is wild. The fact that number 100000 is a community bug report feels very on brand. Congrats to everyone building and triaging.
@steipete How long did it take you to build v1 of this?
@openclaw Excited to see what this small assistant will turn into over the years.
@openclaw 100,000 issues/PRs in 222 days with no VC is crazy.
Really cool to see an open source community move this fast.
@openclaw insaneeeee
@openclaw Proud to be a contributor
@openclaw Gotta say I’ve never had my reported bugs fixed faster than in this project. About to submit another related to xai oauth.
@openclaw This is a good proof Hermes is much better
@steipete congrats - you created something very special
@steipete most of those are probably just people asking why their build broke after updating
@steipete Open source at its absolute peak. No payroll, no bullshit, just pure momentum.
