Devin Northrup

VP of Experience, Latitude. We make AI Dungeon and Voyage.

I rarely tweet, but when I do, it’s not very entertaining

[Devin Northrup @matudnorthrup]

You can view the Tango repo at https://t.co/YEzuYzC6oQ

I hope it's helpful!

[Devin Northrup @matudnorthrup]

Like a lot of people in this community, I've been using OpenClaw for months. With Anthropic cutting off the subscription access that powered it, a lot of us are suddenly without our AI infrastructure.

I saw this risk coming a few months ago and started building an alternative. It's called Tango, and I just open-sourced it.

[Devin Northrup @matudnorthrup]

It's open source and designed so you can configure it for your own setup without forking the codebase. Your personal config, secrets, and data live outside the repo.

[Devin Northrup @matudnorthrup]

Respectfully, terrible response. If I was in your PR team, I'd have suggested something like:

"These Anthropic commercials are a perfect demonstration of the fact that ads won't ruin an experience you're enjoying for free. Well done!"

Pro ads. Fights meme with meme. Not defensive.

[Devin Northrup @matudnorthrup]

@signulll You know how I would have responded?

"These Anthropic commercials are a perfect example that ads don't have to ruin an experience you're enjoying for free. Well done!"

[Devin Northrup @matudnorthrup]

Totally agree. I've already transitioned away from 5 major apps I was using to ones with strong APIs or ways of accessing data.

I suspect companies will cling to their data (it's been their moat for years) but consumer behavior and revenue loss will probably force them to change.

It's going to be a wild ride.

[Devin Northrup @matudnorthrup]

Shared this somewhere else... figured I'd do so here too. This is what I'm using OpenClaw for after about a week of using it.

It's crazy it's only been a week of this, but here's what I've found most useful so far.

Working well:

- Health — Health Auto Export iOS app + Apple Watch + vibecoded MongoDB database. Checks regularly for anomalies. Recommends adjustments. First major win: the best 3 consecutive days of sleep I can remember in recent history.

- Nutrition Coach — FatSecret iOS app and API. Tell Watson what I ate, it logs and syncs to iPhone (I still want to keep it in Apple Health data too). Obsidian for recipe database. Advises on adjustments to recipes, daily progress, etc.

- Finance — PocketSmith (was using previously, but has an API so it'll probably stick) + browser integration. Two jobs: (1) searches Amazon/Walmart and catalogs purchases into Obsidian since those vendors don't have consistent purchase categories, (2) categorizes transactions in PocketSmith, then analyzes spending and patterns for actionable insights.

- Grocery Shopper — I describe what I need to buy. It goes to Walmart's site, finds the items (typically ones I've bought in the past), and adds to my cart. Then I just hit checkout when ready and delivery brings them. No more "oh crap what do we need this week?"

- Second Brain — Basically, this is becoming an external/portable memory system for AI bots. Using Obsidian now instead of Notion. Auto-captures chats. Extracts insights. Has both automated and prompted jobs to keep and curate. Also uses embedding for search/retrieval.

- Daily/Weekly/Quarterly Planning — Looks at calendar, finds most important tasks, automatically timeboxes. Helps cull long backlog. Daily plan keeps focused on weekly goals. Weekly plans on quarterly goals (adopting concepts from the "12 Week Year" idea). Adjusts my schedule on the fly. Solves the drawbacks of timeboxing I've always felt.

- Email Review — Pretty standard. Summarizes notifications, newsletters, archives. Gives me things needing attention. Creates drafts for me to approve/send.

- Mac Maintenance — Hit hard drive limits. Used it to help clean up caches, move apps and large files to my external drive, create symbolic links, etc. Would have taken me hours in the past. Spent maybe 15 min on it. Freed up almost 100 gigs.

Kinda there, still improving:

- Workout Coach — Has my data, trying to find ways to give it more. Using it to analyze workouts and advise on form for lifts. Would love to feed images/video in rather than describing where I feel issues.

- Shopping & Product Research — Does web searches and analyzes products. Made my first Amazon purchase entirely through the bot yesterday.

- Twitter/LinkedIn — Scans for posts I can respond to. Creates draft posts. Still working on getting voice and post selection improved. Great potential, not ready yet.

- PM Bot — Currently uses Linear MCP to find issues needing my attention. Potentially could proactively nudge where I want it to.

[Devin Northrup @matudnorthrup]

@clairevo The support queue shows you what your docs don't explain, what your UX hides, and what your roadmap is missing. No user research substitute for watching someone get stuck in real time.

[Devin Northrup @matudnorthrup]

@Pravin_builds @kevinxu The reversibility point is key. Code has undo, version control, tests. Markets don't. Same reason I'll let AI draft marketing copy but not send emails automatically.

[Devin Northrup @matudnorthrup]

@cjtrapp @markeatsmeat 100% agree. I tracked macros religiously for a while and realized protein + deficit does 90% of the work. The other macros self-regulate once you're eating enough protein - you just naturally gravitate toward balance.

[Devin Northrup @matudnorthrup]

@adamstayslean This is basically my playbook after losing 50lbs. Protein target + movement first, then flexibility. The mental freedom of not restricting entire food groups is what makes it sustainable long-term.