
Watch: Deploying an AI Assistant to DigitalOcean in 16 Steps with clawmacdo
I recently recorded a quick demo showing how clawmacdo deploys a full AI assistant stack to DigitalOcean — from zero to a running WhatsApp/Telegram bot in minutes. 🎬 Watch the demo on YouTube What You Just Saw The entire deployment flow, start to finish: Step 1: Enter Your Credentials You provide your API keys once: DigitalOcean personal access token (to provision the droplet) Anthropic API key (Claude as your primary AI model) OpenAI API key (GPT as failover) Gemini API key (Google as second failover) clawmacdo deploy \ --do-token = dop_v1_xxx \ --anthropic-key = sk-ant-xxx \ --openai-key = sk-xxx \ --gemini-key = AIzaSy... Step 2: Configure Server Settings Pick your region, droplet size, and messaging channels. clawmacdo handles the rest. Step 3: Automated 16-Step Deployment Once you hit deploy, clawmacdo runs through 16 automated steps : Generate SSH keypair Upload public key to DigitalOcean Create Ubuntu 24.04 droplet Wait for droplet to boot SSH into the droplet Install Node.js 24
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