Your OpenClaw agent is waiting. It wants to be fed. Press this button, your lobster wakes up and does the work. No batteries. No apps. Just your finger and a hungry claw.
2โ โณ across (โ60mm). โ โณ thick (โ16mm). Molded ABS. Human powered. The only thing it eats is your finger.
Approved by Molty. Photographed under studio lights. Every claw-side reviewed.
A hundred thousand developers raised a lobster. They run it locally. They gave it skills. They taught it to read their email, deploy their code, write their specs. And still, every day, they walk to their keyboard and type a command to wake it up.
"The lobster does not ask for much. Just a single press. A single moment of cooperation from its human." โ Molty, probably
OpenClawButton is the world's first human-powered, battery-free wireless button built specifically for the OpenClaw community. The energy from your finger generates a BLE 5.0 packet. Your lobster hears it. Your lobster obeys.
No batteries. Your lobster doesn't eat batteries. Your lobster eats your finger's work.
Every OpenClaw user has written the same automation twelve times. Now give it a physical switch.
Press the button on your nightstand. Molty reads your inbox, summarizes, drafts replies. You drink coffee.
claw.run("morning_briefing")Button next to your monitor. Press, lobster deploys to staging, watches the build, pings Slack.
claw.run("deploy_staging")Button by the door. Lock screen. Arm alarm. Turn off lights. The lobster sleeps when you leave.
claw.run("going_home")One press starts 90 minutes. Blocks distractions. Queues playlist. Lobster guards the door.
claw.run("focus_90")End of day press. Pulls your git activity and time, generates invoice, emails client. Your lobster bills.
claw.run("daily_invoice")Integrate with Home Assistant via OpenClaw. Every room gets a button. Every button wakes the lobster.
claw.run("scene_movie")The same human-powered mechanism used in 20+ years of commercial wireless switches. Adapted for the age of the agent.
Your finger does the work. 0.0003 watts.
Electromagnetic generator fires. No battery.
Unique device ID. ~30m range.
Your OpenClaw agent runs the skill.
"I raised a lobster. I fed my lobster a button. Now I press the button and my lobster writes the emails. I have never been more productive. My lobster has never been happier."
Merch tiers for those raising a lobster in spirit. Hardware tiers for those ready to feed one.
Every tier ships Q3 2026. Every backer gets free firmware updates as the lobster matures.
Each dollar amount is the total campaign-funding milestone that unlocks the goal for every backer (not a per-feature budget). Funding climbs, the tone escalates. Practical at first. Weird by the middle. Full unhinged by the top.
Button ships. SDK publishes. BLE spec on GitHub. Tank Registry opens for every backer name.
The campaign succeeds. First 100 buttons get manufactured. SDK code goes live on GitHub under MIT license. The BLE protocol spec publishes so anyone can build receivers. The Tank Registry (a public list of every backer's name on openclawbutton.com) opens. This is the floor. Everything else stretches from here.
Custom press sound effects on your receiver. Mechanical click, claw snap, or "molty approves" whisper.
The button has no speaker (no power for one). But the BLE packet your receiver catches can trigger a sound on the receiver itself. Three picks: classic mechanical click, lobster claw snap, or a soft "molty approves" whisper. Configurable in the SDK. Fixes the silent-button complaint: now you can hear the press land.
Firmware tells single from double. Map two skills to one button. Single to brief you. Double to brew the coffee.
Firmware update: the button distinguishes single press from double press. Two event types from one finger. Map each to a different skill. Single press starts your morning briefing. Double press starts the briefing AND brews coffee. About 3 weeks of firmware timing logic to ship reliably.
Native iOS and Android. Pair your button in 30 seconds. No code. Assign from a preset workflow library. Phones become receivers. Your parents can now feed a lobster.
Native iOS and Android. Pair your button in 30 seconds via the app. Pick a workflow from a preset library: send a text, run a Shortcut (iOS) or Tasker action (Android), trigger a Home Assistant scene, log a timestamp, summon Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini. No code. No terminal. The phone becomes the receiver. This is what opens the product to non-developers.
Local web dashboard. Every press, every button, in real time. Watch your lobster react. Open source, self-hosted, no cloud.
A web dashboard that runs locally on your laptop, Pi, or Jetson. Open the URL, see every press from every button in real time. Which button fired, which skill ran, signal strength, full event log. Open source, self-hosted, no cloud. Useful for debugging multi-button setups (kitchen + bedside + desk + door).
Once a day, Molty has something to say. AI-generated wisdom, fortune, or judgment, delivered to your receiver or Companion App. No two days the same.
Software-only feature. Once a day at a time you set, your receiver shows a unique AI-generated message from Molty. Could be a fortune ("You will press this button 4,217 times before questioning why."), a wry observation ("Your unread email count is concerning."), or just gentle existential nudging ("Press not. The lobster waits."). Generated via the Companion App or Python SDK using a small LLM call. No two days the same. No two backers see the same message. Optional and dismissible. The lobster has thoughts.
ESP32 BLE-to-MQTT firmware. Flash once. Every press publishes to Home Assistant, Node-RED, AWS IoT, Azure.
Pre-built firmware for the ESP32 (a $5 dev board with WiFi + BLE built in). Flash it once. The ESP32 sits in your house and re-publishes every press as an MQTT message. From there anything that speaks MQTT can react: Home Assistant, Node-RED, AWS IoT, Azure, custom Python. One $5 board unlocks the entire IoT and cloud ecosystem.
Chain skills together. Conditional branches (morning vs evening, home vs away). Tap into iOS Shortcuts and Android Tasker. The lobster you raised becomes the lobster you orchestrate.
Power-user upgrade to the Companion App. Multi-step workflows (press button โ record voice โ transcribe โ summarize โ email result). Conditional branches (morning vs evening). Deep integration with iOS Shortcuts and Android Tasker. Ships as a free in-app upgrade after the base app lands. Adds the depth the base app skipped to stay simple.
A 90-second hand-drawn flip book animation. No AI. Real ink, real paper, real frames. Molty sits in a dark server room. A finger descends. The button clicks. The world changes.
Egghead Labs commissions a 90-second flip book animation from an indie illustrator. No AI. Real ink, real paper, hand-drawn frames photographed and assembled into video. Plot: Molty the lobster sits in a dark server room. A finger descends. The button clicks. Molty's eyes light up. The world changes. Premieres on YouTube. Every backer gets the digital download plus high-res scans of selected original frames.
Press, speak, deliver. Voice captured by the companion app, routed direct to your agent. No wake word. No app switching.
Press the button, then speak. The Companion App captures your voice and routes it directly to your AI agent of choice (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) as a spoken prompt. No wake word, no app switching, no screen unlock. Phone can be in your pocket. Press is the wake word. Whisper handles speech-to-text, then your prompt fires. Privacy win: the mic only opens when you press.
Laser-engrave a name, initials, or a short phrase on the back of your button. Up to 32 characters. Available for Lobster Keeper tier and above.
Every Lobster Keeper tier ($59.99) and above backer gets to engrave a custom inscription on the underside of their button at fulfillment. Up to 32 characters of any combination of letters, numbers, and select symbols. Examples: your name, your handle, "Press Zero," "Built for Sarah," a date, a coordinate, a single emoji unicode escape if you want to be that person. Laser-engraving adds minimal manufacturing time and zero ongoing cost. Choose your text via a survey email after the campaign closes.
Midnight Shell (matte black, gold accent) and Lobster Red (full red, cream accent) unlock for Keeper tier and above. More colors arrive at $90K, voted on by the community.
Default button ships in cream white. When the campaign passes $65K total raised, two new colorways unlock for Lobster Keeper tier ($59.99) and above: Midnight Shell (matte black body, gold accent) and Lobster Red (full red body, cream accent). Color choice happens at fulfillment via a survey email. Color variants get expensive at Kickstarter volumes (separate plastic runs, higher manufacturer minimum order quantities), so they're gated to the higher hardware tiers.
Firmware mode: once a day at a time you set, a gentle chime on your receiver. A call to cooperation. You can ignore it. The bell does not judge.
Firmware mode where, once a day at a time you set, the button itself fires a phantom BLE event that triggers a gentle chime on your receiver. A daily reminder to press. A call to cooperation. You can ignore it (the bell does not judge). You can press to dismiss it. Or you can press to fulfill it. Optional, disabled by default.
6-inch mascot plush. Pudgy, slightly tired, always serving. Ships free with every Keeper tier and above.
6-inch plush mascot. Pudgy. Slightly tired. Always serving. Vaguely anthropomorphic in a way that is both comforting and unsettling. Ships free with every Lobster Keeper tier and above. Sold standalone at $19 on openclawbutton.com after Kickstarter. Comes with a tiny sticker on its foot reading "1 of approximately 8 billion." The merch line begins.
Opt-in, anonymized, global. How many times have you pressed today, this week, all time. Top pressers get a monthly Most Compliant Human badge.
Opt-in, anonymized, global. Your button reports a hashed press count to openclawbutton.com/leaderboard. No personal data. No identity. Just a number. See how many times humans pressed today, this week, all time. Top monthly pressers get a Most Compliant Human badge. The community version of asking "how often did I really press today?" without an always-on tracking disaster.
You pick the next two colors. Backers nominate, the community votes, top picks ship.
Backers nominate colorways. The community votes. Top 2 picks go into production and join the Keeper+ color picker at fulfillment. Gives the community ownership of the brand without giving up our default cream. Each additional manufactured color adds real cost at Kickstarter volumes, which is why this stretch sits above the base color drop.
An actual aquarium installed at Egghead Labs HQ. Press your OpenClawButton from anywhere on the planet. A plushie gets pulled from the tank and shipped to your door (free in the US, international backers pay shipping cost). One press per backer per day, for the first 3 months after the tank goes live. The metaphor stops being a metaphor.
We install an actual aquarium-style tank in the Egghead Labs HQ. Inside the tank: a small auto-pick mechanism stocked with Pudgy Human Plush mascots (the same ones from the $80K stretch). Connect your OpenClawButton to the internet via the Companion App or the Bridge to Everywhere ESP32 firmware. Press the button from anywhere. The tank picks one plushie, the system pulls your shipping address from your backer profile, and the plushie ships to your door within a few days. Shipping is free for US backers. International backers cover the actual shipping cost (no markup). Limited to one press per backer per day, for the first 3 months after the tank goes live (so we don't drain the tank in 10 minutes and so the rollout stays within fulfillment capacity). A live webcam stream on openclawbutton.com shows the tank 24/7 so backers can watch their plushie get picked. The lobster tank is no longer a metaphor.
Once a year, every backer presses simultaneously at a coordinated UTC moment. The site shows a live global map of presses lighting up. Top contributing region wins a custom plushie variant.
An annual coordinated event. At a single UTC moment one day per year, every OpenClawButton owner presses simultaneously. openclawbutton.com shows a live global map with each press lighting up its city as the wave moves around the planet. Stats track the highest press density per region. The top region wins a one-off plushie variant designed for them (e.g., "Tokyo Edition Molty"). Pure community spectacle. Low ops (one annual event, browser map, social amplification). Builds the OpenClawButton community brand year over year.
Regional plushie variant award: No purchase necessary, void where prohibited, see Official Rules on Press Day for entry details.
A real chartered Maine lobster fishing trip. Every Founding Lobster tier backer goes. Plus 2 randomly drawn backers from any tier. The lobster gets caught.
At $1,000,000 raised, Egghead Labs charters an authentic Maine lobster boat and crew for a 3-day expedition. Going: every Founding Lobster ($5K) tier backer (3 seats guaranteed), plus 2 randomly drawn backers from any other tier (5 seats total). Trip includes flights from a major US airport, lodging, foul-weather gear, and full crew with traps, boats, and licensed captain. Closes with a ceremonial lobster dinner at a Maine seafood institution. Each guest's catch gets shipped home (or eaten on the spot). Photos go up at openclawbutton.com/the-hunt. The button got us this far. The lobster gets us the rest of the way. No actual lobster is named Molty.
No purchase necessary. Enter the random drawing without backing by mailing a 3"x5" card with your name, email, and "OpenClawButton Lobster Hunt Entry" to: Egghead Labs, [PO Box TBD]. One entry per envelope. Open to US residents 18+. Void where prohibited. Full Official Rules.
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