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OpenHelm

Show HN: OpenHelm – OpenClaw but free (using your Claude Code subscription)

50 AI Score
Show_hn other Added Mar 28, 2026

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Sector
other
Total Funding
$0
Last Round
$0

About

I tried OpenClaw. It is awesome, but token use killed me, and like with Claude Code scheduling, I ended up spending most of my time managing failed executions and tweaking prompts.<p>I built OpenHelm to fix this. It’s a local macOS app that turns your high-level goals into a self-running job queue, built directly on top of your existing Claude Code subscription.<p><i>Use it free</i><p>- Download it now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openhelm.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openhelm.ai&#x2F;</a><p>- GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;maxbeech&#x2F;openhelm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;maxbeech&#x2F;openhelm</a><p>- Video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;FfEBw1SCl7w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;FfEBw1SCl7w</a><p><i>How it works</i><p>1. Set a goal, eg. &quot;cold reach out to new leads&quot;, &quot;grow my SEO&quot;, &quot;audit my app weekly&quot;, &quot;keep tests green&quot;)<p>2. OpenHelm puts together a plan combining one-off and recurring jobs to make it happen<p>3. Whenever a job fails, it will spot this, adjust, and try again<p>4. It will keep on top of the goal, auto-adjusting what jobs are run to actually achieve it<p><i>Key benefits</i><p>- Fair Source, on GitHub (free for teams under four people)<p>- Free to use (all LLM calls use your Claude Code subscription)<p>- Fully local<p>- Secure (any tokens&#x2F;passwords stay in macOS Keychain unless you specify otherwise)<p>Happy to answer any questions!

AI Score Reasoning

OpenHelm addresses a genuine pain point in AI agent reliability and cost management by leveraging local execution and existing subscriptions. However, it currently functions more as a utility tool than a standalone business, facing significant platform risk from Anthropic and low defensibility against competitors.

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