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What is Moltbot?
Moltbot is an open-source AI assistant that manages your life. We make it dead simple to run 24/7.
Reschedules conflicts, books meetings, sends reminders.“Move my 3pm to next week”
Drafts responses in your voice, summarizes threads, flags what's urgent. You just approve and send.
Finds flights, checks you in, sends boarding passes.“Book me a flight to NYC next Tuesday”
Finds documents, organizes folders, extracts data from PDFs.“Find that contract from last month”
Your preferences, your projects, past conversations. It knows you. It gets better every day.
Shell scripts, API calls, browser automation. If you can do it on a computer, it can do it for you.
Talk to it from anywhere
Sound familiar?
You're not bad at this. The self-hosting process is just hard.
It's misleading. Expect to spend hours if you're not a developer. I had to upgrade Node, install Homebrew, install Xcode, and manually update NPM before I could even run the installer.
Developer documenting their install attempt
'clawdbot installed successfully!' was misleading—npm failed during installation, so the CLI was never properly installed. I got a success message, started onboarding, then got an error.
r/LocalLLM · 847 upvotes
My own experience was somewhere in the middle. Setup was manageable, but post-install behavior surprised me... the AI started taking actions that were technically within permissions I'd granted but not what I would have chosen.
Experienced developer on X/Twitter
Meanwhile, on Reddit:
847 exposed Moltbots found with API keys leaked
Port 18789 wide open. Security misconfigured.
You get the magic.
| Self-Hosting | Molted | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first message | 3-10 hours | 47 seconds |
| Security config | Manual (most skip it) | |
| When it crashes at 3am | Your problem | Our problem |
| API keys | Often exposed | Encrypted, never exposed |
| Updates | Manual | |
| Support | Reddit, maybe | <1 hour response |
None of them were ours.
Why they switched to Molted
I spent 2 days trying to self-host Moltbot. Dependency issues, firewall config, SSL certs... Molted had it running in under a minute. Now it checks me into flights and manages my calendar.
Was running Moltbot on my own VPS. Woke up to 3am crashes twice last month. Migrated to Molted - same bot, zero ops. Now it manages my email while I sleep. Actually sleep.
Security was my concern with self-hosting. API keys exposed, port open... Molted handles all that. Encrypted, monitored, auto-patched. I just use my assistant.
Moltbot is powerful. That's exactly why misconfigured instances are dangerous.
847
Exposed Moltbots found
Last 30 days on Shodan
18789
Default port, wide open
Scanned 50k+ times/day
$2.4k
Average API bill hijacked
From exposed keys
73%
Skip security config
“I'll do it later”
Someone scans port 18789, finds your exposed instance, extracts your API keys from memory or config.
Result: $500-5000 in unauthorized API calls before you notice
Moltbot has access to your calendar, emails, files. An exposed instance = all that data, accessible.
Result: Personal data leaked, calendar scraped, emails read
Moltbot can run shell commands. Wrong permissions = attacker runs commands on your machine.
Result: Full system compromise, ransomware, crypto miners
r/selfhosted
Posted 2 weeks ago
Did a Shodan scan for fun. Found 847 Moltbot instances with port 18789 exposed. Most had default configs. Some had API keys in plain text environment variables. If you self-host, please at least put it behind a firewall.
Security isn't a feature we added. It's why we exist.For $5/month, you sleep at night.
Fully managed. Always on. Zero ops.
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You bring your own API key (Anthropic or OpenAI).
Typical API cost: $10-30/month depending on usage.
Generic hosting platforms charge $29-49/month because they support everything. We ONLY host Moltbot. Every server, every script, every alert is optimized for one thing. Specialization = efficiency = $5/month and still sustainable.
You know how to self-host. You just don't want to.
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