About / FAQ
Who Makes Watch.ly
Watch.ly is made by the same team that has been running FastComments.com since early 2020.
Where are The Docs
Right now there's just a guided install flow with a separate "watchly-setup" binary to make setup easy. In-depth docs coming soon.
How do I get it
We recommend you Sign Up first and then checkout the install page.
Linux Users: "You're not giving me some random cURL command to run are you?"
Not necessarily. We run repos for both Linux, so instead of using npm or random shell scripts, installation and updates are managed by "apt-get update" etc.
How it's Made
The Watch.ly agent is mostly Rust, with some C for interfacing with eBPF and NFQUEUE. Our backends are a mix of Rust and Django, on top of Postgres, hosted on bare-metal servers with full disk encryption. The agent has an extensive test suite using automation that spins up virtual machines for different operating systems, installs the agent, and runs the setup, so hopefully everything "just works" for you. If you find a bug, please create a support ticket so that others can benefit from the fix. Thanks for your patience, and thanks for checking us out!
Watch.ly Long Term Plans
Right now, our plan is simply to provide the service we've already built and run it long-term, without muddying it with a million unnecessary features and UI changes.
What Openclaw Deployments are Supported
Linux: Systemd, init.d, or running directly in CLI. Docker sandboxing coming soon.
Windows: Running openclaw directly or as a startup service.
Why is it Brown
We're going for a steampunk asthetic, because it's fun.