The wild six weeks for NanoClaw’s creator that led to a deal with Docker
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Gavriel Cohen built NanoClaw, a 500-line open-source AI agent framework, in a weekend as a secure alternative to OpenClaw after discovering OpenClaw had stored all his WhatsApp messages in plain text. The project went viral on Hacker News and received a public endorsement from AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, amassing 22,000 GitHub stars and 4,600 forks in weeks. Cohen then shut down his AI marketing startup to found NanoCo full-time. Docker reached out after a developer replaced NanoClaw's Apple container tech with Docker Sandboxes, leading to an official integration partnership. NanoCo is currently funded by a friends-and-family round, with VCs calling and commercial plans still being formulated around enterprise support and forward-deployed engineers.
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