Follow Builders, Not Influencers: OpenClaw Skill Review

In the noisy world of AI content, Follow-Builders cuts through the influencer spam to deliver what matters: insights from people actually building AI products.

What Makes This OpenClaw Skill Special?

This GitHub repository (2.2k stars) is an installable OpenClaw skill that creates personalized digests from:

6 Top AI Podcasts: Latent Space, No Priors, Unsupervised Learning, Training Data, MAD Podcast, AI & I 25 Elite AI Builders on X: Andrej Karpathy, Sam Altman, Swyx, Aaron Levie, Garry Tan + 20 more 2 Official Blogs: Anthropic Engineering deep-dives, Claude product updates

Zero-Setup Magic

git clone https://github.com/zarazhangrui/follow-builders.git ~/skills/follow-builders
cd ~/skills/follow-builders/scripts && npm install

Just say "set up follow builders" to your OpenClaw agent. It asks: - Daily or weekly? - English, Chinese, or bilingual? - Telegram, Discord, email, or in-chat delivery?

Your first digest arrives immediately. No API keys, no config files, no hassle.

Customize Like a Pro

Conversational control: - "Make summaries shorter" - "Switch to weekly Monday mornings" - "Focus on actionable insights" - "Use casual tone"

Power user option: Edit plain-English prompts in /prompts/ folder: - summarize-podcast.md - summarize-tweets.md - digest-intro.md - translate.md

Privacy-First Design

✅ No API keys sent anywhere ✅ Config stored locally (~/.follow-builders/.env) ✅ Only public content scraped ✅ Your reading history stays private

Sample Output

See examples/sample-digest.md for real digest format. Expect: - Podcast episode summaries with timestamps - Thread breakdowns from X - Technical blog post key takeaways - Direct links to original content

Perfect For

• Solo developers tracking frontier research
• AI product managers staying current
• Researchers following peer insights
• Anyone tired of influencer content farms

MIT licensed, actively maintained, 110 commits. Install today and follow builders who ship products, not regurgitate headlines.

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