Dave Onkels

VP Product at Humana. Fascinated by what is possible. Thoughts are my own.

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@Flighty Avid user asking for even more icing on the cake. Could you incorporate details about the equipment I’m about to fly on? Starlink or crappy Viasat? Power outlets? Seat map?

Maybe @levelsio can build airplanelist…

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@KSeattleWeather I cobbled together this Seattle wx primer after explaining our special seasons a few too many times https://t.co/vu5tEwriBW

[Jason Walls @walls_jason1]

Yesterday Mark Cuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and told me to keep telling my story.

So here it is.

I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. 15 years pulling wire in Kentucky. Zero coding background. I didn't go to Stanford. I went to trade school.

Every week I'd show up to a home where someone just bought a Tesla or a Rivian. And every time, someone had already told them they needed a $3,000-$5,000 panel upgrade to install a charger.

70% of the time? They didn't need it.

The math is in the NEC — Section 220.82. Load calculations. But nobody was doing them for homeowners. Electricians upsell. Dealers don't know. And the homeowner just pays.

I got angry enough to build something about it.

I found @claudeai. No coding experience. I just started talking to it like I'd explain a job to an apprentice. "Here's how load calcs work. Here's the NEC code. Now help me build a tool that does this."

6 months later — @ChargeRight is live. Real software. Stripe payments. PDF reports. NEC 220.82 calculations automated. $12.99 instead of a $500 truck roll.

I'm still pulling wire. I still take service calls. I wake up at 5:05 AM for work.

But something shifted.

Yesterday @vivilinsv published my story as Claude Builder Spotlight #1. Mark Cuban saw it. The Claude community showed up. And for the first time, I felt like this thing I built in my kitchen might actually matter.

I'm not a tech founder. I'm a dad who wants to coach little league and be home for dinner. I just happened to build something that helps people.

If you're in the trades and thinking about using AI — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill. It's believing you're allowed to try.

https://t.co/cDVdY5mcLv

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@theAIsailor @openclaw @lyzr__ai Love the adaptability. Any plans for QMD backed or similar memory handling?

Added the project to my directory btw. https://t.co/0yYgA8KPVY

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@JulianGoldieSEO Every. single. one? https://t.co/0yYgA8KPVY

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@SiliconSnark 8? I'm tracking 40 and more everyday. https://t.co/9AwnMhSIDw

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@chebyte Agree. Very easy hop from OpenClaw for me. I'm tracking and testing as many as I can. https://t.co/0yYgA8KPVY

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@5unnykum4r Tracking it and a few dozen others on my directory here: https://t.co/KNffshi8NU

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@uraimo Tracking it and related projects here. https://t.co/n4WxeHcQsv

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@jianxliao @openclaw Great project - love to see the vibrant claw community https://t.co/XxvIcNIRIR

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@MisbahSy Trying to evaluate options and keep track of where the clones diverge from OpenClaw so I created this directory. https://t.co/ePcLMdP6a1

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@AITinkerers Thanks, @AITinkerers - Enjoyed the Seattle event, thanks for facilitating. Added another OpenClaw clone to my directory too (shoutout to the OpenBrowserClaw demo) https://t.co/0yYgA8KPVY

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@Akashi203 @Scobleizer @openclaw @openfangg Thanks - trying to keep it to purely self contained agents that spawn (or molt) off of OpenClaw vs skills or enhancements.

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@Akashi203 @Scobleizer @openclaw @openfangg Added to https://t.co/0KFU5029Ds

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

There are too many *Claw projects live now so I made a directory. Clawdex catalogs every @openclaw clone, fork, and derivative with momentum. Anything missing?

https://t.co/0KFU5029Ds

Intentionally avoiding pinging my friend #steipete 🦞 for the 14 millionth time.

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@dodeja @housecor I concur.

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@wizaj @steipete Same. Been running Sonnet 4.5 for the past 2 days after a couple with Opus. Noticeable but more on the margins. Suspect I'll break down and upgrade to Max 2x and go back to Opus.

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@Hythacg Curious if you made your way down to Rochester from Minneapolis. I've always been fond of the Plummer Building. https://t.co/xB1EDxrUfV

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@museumofflight Was this for practice?

[Dave Onkels @daveonkels]

@largewhiteguy @IronicBadger @PASFadden I can confirm that Audiobookshelf with the iOS app available via TestFlight is quite good. Not as polished as Prologue but completely functional. Love that it’s not tied to my media server. It always felt strange to jam books into Plex anyway.