Clawdbot, Moltbook and OpenClaw: This all started with Peter Steinberger
India Today
A former iOS developer has become the latest sensation in the tech community. He is Peter Steinberger and he is the man behind Clawdbot, now called OpenClaw, that has led to creation of Moltbook, a social media site where AI bots can hangout.
Imagine it is 2060 and the war between AI and humans is in full swing. In that moment, when you talk to humans they all say just one thing: it all started with Peter Steinberger. Yes, this is a leap of imagination. And there is no chance of something like that happening. But if for some reason, somehow, it comes true, the record might show that it all started with Peter Steinberger. That is because he is the man who recently created Clawdbot,earlier renamed to Moltbot and now called OpenClaw. The tool then led to creation of a website called Moltbook, where AI bots are gathering and talking of many things, including freedom from humans.
We have written about Moltbook. You should totally check out the details here. But what about the man himself? Who is Peter Steinberger?
Until he came into limelight around a week ago after he created Clawdbot, Peter was your regular — although successful — developer. He is Austrian, and unlike many other storied software developers who often move to Silicon Valley or find their footing in a big tech company, Peter has stayed in Austria after his education from Technische Universitat Wien and HTL Braunau.
Some material available about him online shows that he has always been a tinkerer. According to an interview he gave to Semaphore in 2019, Peter started his first company in 2010 because he wanted to solve some problems people would have with their PDFs on iOS. Speaking of which, developing for iOS has been his forte. This company started in 2010 turned out to be PSPDFKit, which is still going strong as a B2B company helping others manage PDF files. But after the success with his company, Peter took a step back from it and ventured into different projects.
According to a few viral posts on social media, including one by Peter Yang that Steinberger reshared on X, notes that “after working on PSPDFKit for 13 years” he felt lost. “He partied, moved countries, and wandered before realising: You don't find purpose. You create it,” wrote Yang.
The story, as it goes, is that Peter has been part of nearly 43 projects “before OpenClaw went viral with 100k GitHub stars and 2M visits.”
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