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Inaugural Clawfee ☕️🦞 and bAIgels 🥯 ✨

Our first Montclair.ai Clawfee & bAIgels event is in the books. It was a small group, outside a cafe, on a beautiful day. We kept it simple: a real conversation about what we’re actually building, the roadblocks (and fears) that keep us up at night, and the stuff we’re excited about. I said at the beginning, if you leave with one idea, connection, or insight, it was worth it. Everyone did. At least I think they did 😀 What stood out: - People are building things far more interesting than they let on. - The overlap in our thinking is massive even if we come from various walks of professional life. - Some genuinely unique AI applications at home. Family lives, so far unique and untouchable, can now easily have AI assist. A few things that came up: - Kids chore app + a “bank” to teach actual money habits. - Trading agents (self-improving, backtesting, and chasing latency arbitrage). - Spec-driven dev that fills in the missing enterprise context. - Multi-agent autonomous marketing systems (OpenClaw-style). - A true “second brain” with basically a person’s entire lifetime memory system complete with pictures and videos. - Personal assistants with clear home/work/fun boundaries. Tools flying around: Gamma, Ollama, OpenRouter, OpenClaw, Hermes, GitHub Copilot, Claude Cowork, Code, and Design, Lovable, v0, Paperclip + more. Also cool, even the people who couldn’t make it emailed in what they’re building. This is a good start. This is the way.