Good luck with this project. Very exciting!
I used to teach high school computer science classes and we built web pages with this new thing called "CSS" (no more tables!) and games in Flash. Cutting edge work we did. Those were good times.
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RyanOD commented on Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter sixstepstobetterhealth.co... · Posted by u/colinbartlett
We do this in the summer when we visit the shores of Lake Michigan. The amount of washed up junk we find is shocking.
RyanOD commented on I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen... · Posted by u/devinitely
A couple years back John Reilly posted on HN "How I ruined my SEO" and I helped him fix it for free. He wrote about the whole thing here: https://johnnyreilly.com/how-we-fixed-my-seo
Happy to do the same for you if you want.
The quickest win in your case: map all the backlinks the .net site got (happy to pull this for you), then email every publication that linked to it. "Hey, you covered NanoClaw but linked to a fake site, here's the real one." You'd be surprised how many will actually swap the link. That alone could flip things.
Beyond that there's some technical SEO stuff on nanoclaw.dev that would help - structured data, schema, signals for search engines and LLMs. Happy to walk you through it.
update: ok this is getting more traction than I expected so let me give some practical stuff.
1. Google Search Console - did you add and verify nanoclaw.dev there? If not, do it now and submit your sitemap. Basic but critical.
2. I checked the fake site and it actually doesn't have that many backlinks, so the situation is more winnable than it looks.
3. Your GitHub repo has tons of high quality backlinks which is great. Outreach to those places, tell the story. I'm sure a few will add a link to your actual site. That alone makes you way more resilient to fakers going forward. This is only happening because everything is so new. Here's a list with all the backlinks pointing to your repo:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bBrYsppQuVrktL1lPfNm...
4. Open social profiles for the project - Twitter/X, LinkedIn page if you want. This helps search engines build a knowledge graph around NanoClaw. Then add Organization and sameAs schema markup to nanoclaw.dev connecting all the dots (your site, the GitHub repo, the social profiles). This is how you tell Google "these all belong to the same entity."
5. One more thing - you had a chance to link to nanoclaw.dev from this HN thread but you linked to your tweet instead. Totally get it, but a strong link from a front page HN post with all this traffic and engagement would do real work for your site's authority. If it's not crossing any rule (specific use case here so maybe check with the mods haha) drop a comment here with a link to nanoclaw.dev. I don't think anyone here would mind if it will get you few steps closer towards winning that fake site
Lame to have to do all this pointless busy work just to "win" the SEO battle.
A great project for any student taking wood shop (our daughter built our LFL last semester).
RyanOD commented on OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation techcrunch.com/2026/02/27... · Posted by u/zlatkov
The people running these companies have a perverse incentive to keep the ball rolling as long as possible so that they can extricate as much personal wealth and influence as possible. Maybe AGI makes all the problems go away. But, failing that, they get out relatively scot-free when it all collapses. And they don't owe anything to the public. And no one is going to bring them up on fraud charges or any other kind of criminal charges. So, while the world is burning around them (including their former companies), they have the money and connections to acquire property and businesses that are actually productive. It's the Russian oligarch playbook. They're the kings of a struggling society on the brink of failure, but they heard "kings" and said, "Let's go."
"so that they can extricate as much personal wealth and influence as possible"
I've always thought this. If you're running something like OpenAI, it really doesn't matter to you if the company fails because you're already comfortably wealthy. But, it sure would be nice to be worth another 10x billion - though I'm not totally sure why.
So these individuals perceive a large upside and no downside. It's more of a hobby than a job. Like learning to play piano. It would be amazing to be a badass pianist...but not a big deal if that never happens.
RyanOD commented on OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation techcrunch.com/2026/02/27... · Posted by u/zlatkov
> It's like how Uber and Airbnb [...]
I disagree. It's like Uber and Airbnb in how they try to gain market share. Big difference: For Uber (and when it got big, basically everybody I know has used it once in a while) and Airbnb, you oaid for each transaction. With OpenAI, most peopme are on the free tier. And if there is something incredibly hard, it's converting free users to paid users. That will, IMHO, be the thong that blows (many) of the AI companies up. They won't ever reach a profit/loss-equality.
I agree with this. For the casual user, I feel AI is only a "nice to have".
RyanOD commented on Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer simonbergerart.com... · Posted by u/cs702
Our world is full of creative, inspirational people. Bravo!
RyanOD commented on I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978 wordglyph.xyz/one-piece-a... · Posted by u/wordglyph
I can't tell if you're joking or not about the form letter there.
It's such a terrible response for someone that was not in fact suggesting a new feature for the franchise.
And even if it had been, rejecting the entire letter for one sentence is still bad.
It's polite. Being polite is pretty much expected here.
I wasn't joking. I don't think that was a form letter. I think someone took the time to write a personalized, thoughtful letter to a wide-eyed 10-year old.
The world needs more of that.
Now that's ... that's weird.