LaunchThatBot Blog
Fifteen articles across three series: why LaunchThatBot exists, how it secures your OpenClaw deployments, and what Convex Mode actually does.
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Start with the founder storyThe frustrations, the audience, and the philosophy behind LaunchThatBot.
Your agents should not operate in isolation. We are building squad orchestration into LaunchThatBot -- powered by Convex, configurable through the dashboard, and owned entirely by you.
Push notifications when an agent goes down. Customizable alerts for CPU spikes and expiring keys. A real dashboard that works on a 6-inch screen. The PWA is coming.
A Hetzner VPS for $5. A MiniMax subscription for $20. Three agents with different roles sharing memory through Convex. Here is the exact setup.
You have an agent running with a soul.md, memory banks, skills, and secrets. Moving it to a managed deployment should not mean starting over. Here is the import path we are building.
I built the backend and infrastructure first -- Docker, multi-agent orchestration, Convex pipelines. Then I deployed a squad of AI agents that helped me finish building the product they were running on.
Mobile-first builders, desktop power users, and developers who want to manage agents from anywhere. Each hits a different wall. Here is what we see and how LaunchThatBot meets them where they are.
I burned $40 in AI credits just configuring OpenClaw. No dashboard, no way to duplicate configs, no observability. That is when I stopped prompting and started coding.
Platforms that trap you are not platforms. They are cages. We built LaunchThatBot so you can leave -- and people have.
You found OpenClaw because you want to create AI agents. You should not need to become a DevOps engineer to do it safely.
Confusing configs, no management dashboard, and redoing the same painful setup every time. This is the story of why LaunchThatBot exists.
What the threat landscape looks like, what LaunchThatBot handles, and a hands-on hardening checklist.
You set up Tailscale, enabled UFW, installed Fail2ban, and ran a security audit. That is better than 135,000 exposed instances. But it still leaves gaps that compound the more agents you run.
Running OpenClaw on your own VPS? Here are the specific things to check, fix, and monitor -- whether or not you ever use LaunchThatBot.
Container isolation, Cloudflare tunnels, subdomain boundaries, and edge ingress -- all handled before you touch a single config file.
135,000 OpenClaw instances are exposed right now. Here is what attackers see, what they can do, and why most operators never notice.
Why OpenClaw needs a real backend, how Convex Mode works, and why your data stays yours.
We built an MCP server that lets AI coding agents manage LaunchThatBot deployments from inside Cursor. Here is the architecture: a TypeScript MCP server, a Cloudflare Worker proxy, and Convex as the backend. No REST API required.
We could have kept your operational data in our systems. We did not. Here is why, and here is exactly how the ownership model works.
A concrete walkthrough of what happens when you enable Convex Mode -- what gets created, what OpenClaw uses it for, and what you own.
OpenClaw generates state, secrets, and scheduled tasks. Without a structured backend, that stuff scatters into .env files and manual scripts. Here is why that breaks.
You set up Tailscale, enabled UFW, installed Fail2ban, and ran a security audit. That is better than 135,000 exposed instances. But it still leaves gaps that compound the more agents you run.
Your agents should not operate in isolation. We are building squad orchestration into LaunchThatBot -- powered by Convex, configurable through the dashboard, and owned entirely by you.
Push notifications when an agent goes down. Customizable alerts for CPU spikes and expiring keys. A real dashboard that works on a 6-inch screen. The PWA is coming.
A Hetzner VPS for $5. A MiniMax subscription for $20. Three agents with different roles sharing memory through Convex. Here is the exact setup.
You have an agent running with a soul.md, memory banks, skills, and secrets. Moving it to a managed deployment should not mean starting over. Here is the import path we are building.
I built the backend and infrastructure first -- Docker, multi-agent orchestration, Convex pipelines. Then I deployed a squad of AI agents that helped me finish building the product they were running on.
We built an MCP server that lets AI coding agents manage LaunchThatBot deployments from inside Cursor. Here is the architecture: a TypeScript MCP server, a Cloudflare Worker proxy, and Convex as the backend. No REST API required.
Mobile-first builders, desktop power users, and developers who want to manage agents from anywhere. Each hits a different wall. Here is what we see and how LaunchThatBot meets them where they are.
We could have kept your operational data in our systems. We did not. Here is why, and here is exactly how the ownership model works.
A concrete walkthrough of what happens when you enable Convex Mode -- what gets created, what OpenClaw uses it for, and what you own.
I burned $40 in AI credits just configuring OpenClaw. No dashboard, no way to duplicate configs, no observability. That is when I stopped prompting and started coding.
OpenClaw generates state, secrets, and scheduled tasks. Without a structured backend, that stuff scatters into .env files and manual scripts. Here is why that breaks.
Running OpenClaw on your own VPS? Here are the specific things to check, fix, and monitor -- whether or not you ever use LaunchThatBot.
Container isolation, Cloudflare tunnels, subdomain boundaries, and edge ingress -- all handled before you touch a single config file.
135,000 OpenClaw instances are exposed right now. Here is what attackers see, what they can do, and why most operators never notice.
Platforms that trap you are not platforms. They are cages. We built LaunchThatBot so you can leave -- and people have.
You found OpenClaw because you want to create AI agents. You should not need to become a DevOps engineer to do it safely.
Confusing configs, no management dashboard, and redoing the same painful setup every time. This is the story of why LaunchThatBot exists.
Getting Started
Four steps from provider selection to a managed, detach-ready OpenClaw deployment.
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