Self-hosting OpenMausBot for half a day: it runs, but don't trust it with real work
moutsea · reddit · 2026-11-10
The author spent half a day deploying the newly open-sourced Grok Bot-style agent OpenMausBot on a VPS and wrote a first-hand account.
- It starts, but feels like an unfinished house: nearly everything still needs extra configuration — not a 'clone, point at a model, and work' setup.
- Weak models were more discouraging: connected via a third-party LLM endpoint, performance in actual use was very poor.
- Takeaway: the real bar for open-source agents isn't deployability but out-of-the-box usability and a stable enough base to trust with work. Fine for tinkering, not yet for daily work.
The author notes this is a half-day impression, not a full review.
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