Peter Steinberger: What Happens When 4.7 Million People Let It Cook

Last November, Peter Steinberger was annoyed that there was no good way to talk to his coding agents from his phone, so he built one himself. A few months later, OpenClaw had exploded into one of the biggest open source AI projects in the world, with nearly 3,000 contributors and a peak of 4.7 million weekly downloads. At Startup School 2026, Peter tells the story of what happened when OpenClaw took off, what he got wrong as it grew, and how he eventually stopped using the product he had built for himself. He shares why the best products often start with something that annoys you, why focus matters more as building gets easier, and why, in his words, “fun is velocity.” Transcript: https://www.ycrootaccess.com/p/peter-steinberger-what-happens-when Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs Chapters: 00:00 — Intro 01:16 — How OpenClaw Started 05:10 — Finding Product-Market Fit 07:01 — The Night OpenClaw Went Viral 09:50 — When the Project Exploded 11:05 — When the Attention Almost Broke Him 12:00 — Did You Sell Out? 14:17 — Your Name Can’t Be Forked 15:03 — What OpenClaw Got Wrong 20:40 — Hype Is Like the Weather 21:37 — When It Stopped Being Fun 25:30 — Fun Is Velocity 26:40 — What’s Next for OpenClaw 28:57 — Three Lessons From Building OpenClaw 30:08 — QA

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