Claw City NYC — What Happened When 100+ Builders Packed a Room
I've been in the OpenClaw community since the Clawdbot days. Built tools, shipped a memory plugin, talked to a lot of people online about what they're building. But online only gets you so far.
So I threw an event.
Claw City NYC — March 19, 2026
The idea was simple: get OpenClaw builders in a room together. No keynotes. No pitch decks. No panels where four people pretend to disagree. Just developers, drinks, and actual conversations about what they're building.
100+ people showed up.
Not "100 RSVPs and 40 actually came." Over a hundred humans in the same room, all building with AI agents, all wanting to talk about it with someone who actually gets it.
What I Learned
People are hungry for this. The AI agent space moves so fast that nobody has time to step back and compare notes. Everyone's heads-down in their own workspace, solving the same problems in isolation. When you put them in a room, the conversations happen instantly. No icebreakers needed. You just say "what are you building?" and suddenly it's 45 minutes later.
The problems are universal. Memory. Context windows. Tool reliability. Cost management. Multi-agent coordination. Every single conversation hit at least one of these. It doesn't matter if you're building a personal assistant or an enterprise workflow — the walls are the same.
The community is real. OpenClaw went from a scrappy open-source project to the fastest-growing agent framework in the world. The people using it aren't casual — they're shipping real products, running real businesses, and betting their careers on this stack. That energy was palpable in the room.
The Sponsors
KiloCode stepped up as title sponsor. They've been supporting the OpenClaw community since Claw Con and didn't hesitate when I pitched the NYC edition. Real ones.
What's Next
Claw City isn't a one-time thing. It's a series.
The next one's going to be bigger. Different city, more builders, maybe a few demos that blow people's minds. If you missed NYC, you'll get another shot.
Want to make sure you don't miss it? Check out the Claw City page — we posted all the photos from the event. See if you made the cut.
Why MemoryRouter Hosts This
I built MemoryRouter because my AI kept forgetting everything between sessions. The OpenClaw community is where I found the people who understood that pain — and where I found the first users who trusted a random dude's memory plugin enough to install it.
Hosting Claw City is my way of giving back to that community. The builders in this space deserve a place to connect IRL, not just in Discord threads and Reddit posts.
See you at the next one. 🦞
Check out the photo gallery from the event.