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meet botato 🥔 - local first, open source grok bot alternative - every bot has it's own virtual computer, memory and calendar - bots can coordinate themselves and get work done without any human interaction star if you'd give this a try :

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Syndrome17 days ago

Does it work with @NousResearch ? 😎

miracle byte18 days ago

ai agents are getting wild the future is here

Dhanush Vardhan Kalaiselvan17 days ago

wow! super cool. i was waiting for something like this we need a mobile version as well

guru17 days ago

there's a react native mobile client too :) check it out

Aditak | Aditya Tak17 days ago

love it!

Jobin Ayathil18 days ago

botato I like the name

Sagi Polaczek 🦜17 days ago

love it

Allen18 days ago

Love this

Siddharth Singhal18 days ago

@hackyguru love this

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