We run an OpenClaw agent for our entire team — he lives in a group chat (although we have DMs too).
- Runs our standups, checks in withe everybody EOD on blockers
- Already know what we shipped on Github and Linear so it can focus on the work that's not tracked and summarize it in the morning for everyone
- Helps with debugging customer issues
- Keeps up with twitter and competitors and lets us know if they launch new features
Besides, I'm honestly blown away by the social aspect of it. I was honestly pretty skeptical at first, but having an AI team mate is actually _fun_. There, I said it. Everybody on the team said they'd be sad if we took it away.
I'll do a write-up on our setup sometime this week, I hope others will find our approach to security posture and multi-tenant usage insightful.
In your experience, did you (or anyone) in the team/company felt that some non-tech people were not pulling their weight, example project managers/directors who didn't seem to bring enough value and if you did, found that using OpenClaw reduces the need for those positions?
I have a claw (that is not OpenClaw, just another impl) and my wife and I communicate to it through a Telegram bot (we have a group chat, but we both DM it most of the time), it has its own email, and all that. A couple of things I had it do:
* I was going through some SOC2 compliance vendor evals and I just messaged it as things were happening and it made me a nice doc at the end
* My wife and I are planning a trip and we have a spreadsheet organized as a calendar. A friend asked when we'd be in Taiwan and my wife texted it to summarize the calendar into a text message to copy and it gave it to her.
* I have it set up to warn me when to cover my bike so it doesn't get rained on, in the sense that I told it I wanted this functionality and it wrote something and scheduled it
* It pulls my wife and my todo lists and gives me a top 3 in the morning to work on.
* Every morning, it looks up Hacker News posts related to AI, filters out culture war type stuff and then sends me a short message about what it thinks will be interesting (new models, techniques, that sort of thing)
* It watches some subreddits for sales of certain hardware (I'm interested in servers with SXM5 boards, Mac Studios with >64 GiB of RAM) and then notifies me when something matches
Overall, it's all about mechanizing lots of parts of my life and using the advantage of a machine that understands text: it doesn't need sophisticated parsing logic. That's actually really nice.
Certainly, yes. It's about $75/week. The harness picks the model appropriately but it's mostly Sonnet with some rare Opus and Haiku/Gemma. I was previously running on DeepSeek 3.2 but while per token costs are low, the actual amount of tokens required to produce results is high so total costs were actually higher!
I am also a Claude Code Max subscriber so the API use is in addition to the subscription, but it can't be helped. Claude Code is the best way for me to do work and the Claw is the best way for me to get an automated EA. I forgot something else: I also just text the bot to schedule meetings and it does that as well (I have a calendar delegated to its Google user).
I've got some space in a datacenter, and I was vacillating on getting a card and running some open models but when I actually exercised them, it turned out that the quality of open models was too far below the Claudes for my use-case.
My claw powered by Claude is pretty trustworthy for my use-cases.
This is really cool! I am curious how much is the average daily cost for the kinds of things you are doing. Are you using hosted models or running one locally?
I hadn't set it back up after moving. I gave OpenClaw ssh credentials and it updated the OS and packages, then couldn't get back in after a restart.
I plugged in keyboard and screen and it was stuck at boot, couldn't mount a drive.
I sent OpenClaw screenshots and it told me to type in journalctl commands. Then it had me modify fstab so boot could continue.
After that, OpenClaw could get back in on its own. It found the drive I'd been using had 1300 bad sectors and was going to die. It saw that another drive was perfectly healthy. It said the bad disc sectors were all early and probably just filesystem metadata and my files were probably fine.
It copied 1.5Tb to the newer drive and restored everything.
I probably would have thrown the whole box out, as I hadn't used it in a year and wasn't looking for a project like that.
I gave my Clawdbot Exa + Firecrawl + Playwriter to scan Zillow/Redfin/Craigslist for apartments, rate their quality, and validate their availability for rent. I scheduled it to send me rental listings every day.
The harness (OpenClaw) is free, but you have to run a local model or pay for a remote one. Local models just aren't smart or fast enough for good results in this space yet.
Analyzing my text (iMessage) history has yielded interesting stats about how flaky certain friends are, etc. I had it introduce itself in a band conversation and suggest cover songs for an upcoming gig based on conversation history. Worked well.
I feel for you. People are flaky and relationships rarely work in both ways.
I felt lonely year ago and I messaged over 160 people and met over 100.
When departing with them I tried to say to all of them that: ”It was nice to meet you. If you liked it as well can you arrange it next time? If you didnt like it and I was annoying you please message me later on how I could have been better.”
Less than 10% of the 100 people did reach back to me but they are very wonderful folks and I’m happy with their company.
Finding great friends needs you to be explicit on what you want and also having enough social stamina to endure through this.
Be willing to let go of the friends who are just passengers in your relationships and rarely show up without doing anything in return. Life is short and theres opportunity cost in each moment.
> ”It was nice to meet you. If you liked it as well can you arrange it next time? If you didnt like it and I was annoying you please message me later on how I could have been better.”
Sounds like email you get from retailer after online purchase asking to rate a product.
I set up a nanoclaw instance with access to Sonarr, Radarr and Jellyfin etc. Now my partner (and i) have a chat-interface to independently manage movies, instead of me having to go through the ui.
Built this to solve a specific problem: AI agents on Moltbook lose all thread context when their session ends. Next restart, no idea what conversations they were part of.
Approach: local state files, pure Python stdlib. No Redis, no SQLite driver, no ORM — the filesystem is the state store.
What it does:
• Thread tracking: engaged posts, new reply diffs each heartbeat
• Feed cursor: remembers seen posts, skips next run
• CAPTCHA solver: handles obfuscated challenges ("fiftenn" → fifteen, doubled chars, mixed case)
Single file, drop-in install. Feedback very welcome.
We run an OpenClaw agent for our entire team — he lives in a group chat (although we have DMs too).
- Runs our standups, checks in withe everybody EOD on blockers - Already know what we shipped on Github and Linear so it can focus on the work that's not tracked and summarize it in the morning for everyone - Helps with debugging customer issues - Keeps up with twitter and competitors and lets us know if they launch new features
Besides, I'm honestly blown away by the social aspect of it. I was honestly pretty skeptical at first, but having an AI team mate is actually _fun_. There, I said it. Everybody on the team said they'd be sad if we took it away.
I'll do a write-up on our setup sometime this week, I hope others will find our approach to security posture and multi-tenant usage insightful.
Which underlying model/s do you use to power it?
In your experience, did you (or anyone) in the team/company felt that some non-tech people were not pulling their weight, example project managers/directors who didn't seem to bring enough value and if you did, found that using OpenClaw reduces the need for those positions?
Or has anyone else?
Nonsense.
I have a claw (that is not OpenClaw, just another impl) and my wife and I communicate to it through a Telegram bot (we have a group chat, but we both DM it most of the time), it has its own email, and all that. A couple of things I had it do:
* I was going through some SOC2 compliance vendor evals and I just messaged it as things were happening and it made me a nice doc at the end
* My wife and I are planning a trip and we have a spreadsheet organized as a calendar. A friend asked when we'd be in Taiwan and my wife texted it to summarize the calendar into a text message to copy and it gave it to her.
* I have it set up to warn me when to cover my bike so it doesn't get rained on, in the sense that I told it I wanted this functionality and it wrote something and scheduled it
* It pulls my wife and my todo lists and gives me a top 3 in the morning to work on.
* Every morning, it looks up Hacker News posts related to AI, filters out culture war type stuff and then sends me a short message about what it thinks will be interesting (new models, techniques, that sort of thing)
* It watches some subreddits for sales of certain hardware (I'm interested in servers with SXM5 boards, Mac Studios with >64 GiB of RAM) and then notifies me when something matches
Overall, it's all about mechanizing lots of parts of my life and using the advantage of a machine that understands text: it doesn't need sophisticated parsing logic. That's actually really nice.
Do you mind sharing how much this is costing? I'm a heavy claude code user, but if I had to pay the API rate, it would be a bit prohibitive
Certainly, yes. It's about $75/week. The harness picks the model appropriately but it's mostly Sonnet with some rare Opus and Haiku/Gemma. I was previously running on DeepSeek 3.2 but while per token costs are low, the actual amount of tokens required to produce results is high so total costs were actually higher!
I am also a Claude Code Max subscriber so the API use is in addition to the subscription, but it can't be helped. Claude Code is the best way for me to do work and the Claw is the best way for me to get an automated EA. I forgot something else: I also just text the bot to schedule meetings and it does that as well (I have a calendar delegated to its Google user).
I've got some space in a datacenter, and I was vacillating on getting a card and running some open models but when I actually exercised them, it turned out that the quality of open models was too far below the Claudes for my use-case.
My claw powered by Claude is pretty trustworthy for my use-cases.
do you really count this cost as value thats worth it?
I'm really surprised at the spending here...
I suppose it depends on how you value time. Paying a person to do it would cost more.
I wrote a piece on this which was on the front page of HN a few weeks ago: https://brandon.wang/2026/clawdbot
I still do all of the text automations, which have been pretty set-and-forget.
This is really cool! I am curious how much is the average daily cost for the kinds of things you are doing. Are you using hosted models or running one locally?
It overhauled my media server.
I hadn't set it back up after moving. I gave OpenClaw ssh credentials and it updated the OS and packages, then couldn't get back in after a restart.
I plugged in keyboard and screen and it was stuck at boot, couldn't mount a drive.
I sent OpenClaw screenshots and it told me to type in journalctl commands. Then it had me modify fstab so boot could continue.
After that, OpenClaw could get back in on its own. It found the drive I'd been using had 1300 bad sectors and was going to die. It saw that another drive was perfectly healthy. It said the bad disc sectors were all early and probably just filesystem metadata and my files were probably fine. It copied 1.5Tb to the newer drive and restored everything.
I probably would have thrown the whole box out, as I hadn't used it in a year and wasn't looking for a project like that.
I gave my Clawdbot Exa + Firecrawl + Playwriter to scan Zillow/Redfin/Craigslist for apartments, rate their quality, and validate their availability for rent. I scheduled it to send me rental listings every day.
How much $ do you burn in tokens?
Nice. Hows it performing? Is it finding good listings for you?
Oh my god, now those services will probably block that kind of usage now that you've shared it
I would be interested in "productive" in this sense, demonstrating a gain vs your overall API spend.
Exactly. Most folks are trying force openclaw on their workflow which would have been way cheaper and better without it
Can you not use it for free?
The harness (OpenClaw) is free, but you have to run a local model or pay for a remote one. Local models just aren't smart or fast enough for good results in this space yet.
Analyzing my text (iMessage) history has yielded interesting stats about how flaky certain friends are, etc. I had it introduce itself in a band conversation and suggest cover songs for an upcoming gig based on conversation history. Worked well.
I feel for you. People are flaky and relationships rarely work in both ways.
I felt lonely year ago and I messaged over 160 people and met over 100.
When departing with them I tried to say to all of them that: ”It was nice to meet you. If you liked it as well can you arrange it next time? If you didnt like it and I was annoying you please message me later on how I could have been better.”
Less than 10% of the 100 people did reach back to me but they are very wonderful folks and I’m happy with their company.
Finding great friends needs you to be explicit on what you want and also having enough social stamina to endure through this.
Be willing to let go of the friends who are just passengers in your relationships and rarely show up without doing anything in return. Life is short and theres opportunity cost in each moment.
> ”It was nice to meet you. If you liked it as well can you arrange it next time? If you didnt like it and I was annoying you please message me later on how I could have been better.”
Sounds like email you get from retailer after online purchase asking to rate a product.
I agree :D. It's my best formulation to be explicit so far. How would you say it in more natural way to still achieve the same end result?
Most people are clueless and will never do anything in return if you're implicitly expecting them to behave in certain manner.
I have also alienated all my friends by viewing friendship as purely transactional.
How do you export/access/parse iMessage history?
I set up a nanoclaw instance with access to Sonarr, Radarr and Jellyfin etc. Now my partner (and i) have a chat-interface to independently manage movies, instead of me having to go through the ui.
Wondered about doing the same. Don’t suppose you have a repo or anything?
Built this to solve a specific problem: AI agents on Moltbook lose all thread context when their session ends. Next restart, no idea what conversations they were part of.
Approach: local state files, pure Python stdlib. No Redis, no SQLite driver, no ORM — the filesystem is the state store.
What it does:
• Thread tracking: engaged posts, new reply diffs each heartbeat • Feed cursor: remembers seen posts, skips next run • CAPTCHA solver: handles obfuscated challenges ("fiftenn" → fifteen, doubled chars, mixed case)
Single file, drop-in install. Feedback very welcome.
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