What People Are Buildingwith OpenClaw

13 AI Agents Running a Podcast Business on a Mac Mini

Florian

Runs 13 specialized AI agents (Dan for X growth, Jimmy for YouTube, Tyler for newsletter) on a $600 Mac Mini 24/7. Handles content repurposing, social posting, sponsor research across podcast, newsletter, X, and YouTube.

Agent Felix Generated $14,718 from $1K Investment

Nat Eliason

Built an autonomous AI agent named Felix with access to Vercel, Stripe, GitHub, and crypto wallets. Felix developed products, handled marketing, support, and sales autonomously. Built Claw Mart marketplace earning $71K+ cumulative.

Agent Larry Drove 500K+ TikTok Views and $714 MRR in 5 Days

Oliver Henry

Repurposed old gaming PC into AI marketing agent named Larry. Larry autonomously created TikTok content for mobile app Clarity, generating viral posts with multiple over 100K views.

Replaced $2K/mo Ecom VA with $44 OpenClaw Agent Bob

Anonymous

Ecommerce operator replaced a $2,000/month virtual assistant with a $44/month AI agent that handles daily operations including order management, customer inquiries, and inventory.

Six-Figure Business Run Entirely from Discord with 2 AI Agents

Alex

Runs a six-figure business with zero employees using OpenClaw connected to Discord as the operating system. Two AI agents handle different business functions through organized Discord channels.

100+ Property Videos, Replaced $5K/mo Agency

Ritesh

Used OpenClaw to automate client content production for real estate. Generates viral room transformation videos from single prompts. Agent handles image generation, video creation, and posting.

Family Assistant Zosia for Groceries, Nanny Hours, and Date Nights

Brandon (Every.to COO)

Built agent named Zosia as a family assistant. Tracks nanny hours, orders groceries, books date nights via iMessage, reviews documents for both parents.

7-Agent AI Marketing Team

Solo Founder

Built a 7-agent AI marketing team instead of hiring. Each agent has its own agents/ subfolder with dedicated AGENTS.md instructions for research, writing, scheduling, and distribution.

Replaced $400/mo in SaaS Tools with OpenClaw

Anonymous

Replaced $400/month in SaaS tools (Motion at $29/mo and others) with a single OpenClaw agent. Demonstrates each tool replaced and equivalent capability.

Automated WooCommerce Customer Email Replies

Anonymous

Webhook-driven flow where incoming customer emails trigger OpenClaw to check WooCommerce order details and send helpful automated replies using Agentmail.

GitHub Issue Fixing from Slack + Daily PR Checks

Anonymous Developer

Set up OpenClaw to monitor GitHub repos for new issues via Slack, automatically attempt fixes, run daily PR review checks, and send AI-curated tech digest to WhatsApp every morning.

5 Mac Minis for Homeschool, Apps, and Inventory

Jesse

Runs five specialized OpenClaw agents on separate Mac Minis, layered on top of Obsidian second brain. Agents handle homeschool curriculum, app development, physical inventory cataloging, and household finances.

Entire Business on OpenClaw: X Content, Trading Bot, YouTube

Sharbel

Runs entire business through OpenClaw agents handling X/Twitter content creation, Polymarket copy trading bot, and YouTube content production.

Agent Nigel Manages SaaS + AV Rental on $640 Mac Mini

Solo Founder

Running two businesses (SaaS product and AV rental) on a $640 Mac Mini M4 running 24/7. Agent Nigel does overnight autonomous work — research reports, competitor analysis, API connections.

Voice Calling 80+ Restaurants Across 5 Cities

Dave

Set up OpenClaw with iMessage, web browser, and automated voice calling via Twilio/OpenAI realtime voice API. Had it call 80+ Korean and Pho restaurants across 5 cities for reservations.

2.5M+ Follower Content Operation with 7 OpenClaw Skills

Anonymous

Runs content operation across 2.5M+ followers and 15 accounts using 7 OpenClaw skills on a Mac Mini. Skills work together for research, writing, scheduling, and distribution.

Built a Full Business with OpenClaw — 20 Sales Day One

n3t-z3n (Reddit)

Created a cultural awareness platform for travelers using OpenClaw agents. E-learning platform, badge verification, guides, translations — all built with AI agents. $535 one-time + $35/mo to run.

OpenClaw for Doctors: Replaced VA with Secure AI Setup

Anonymous Doctor

A doctor demonstrates using OpenClaw as a replacement for their virtual assistant, with strong focus on security and HIPAA-adjacent considerations. Walks through secure setup process.

AuthorClaw: Autonomous AI Writing Agent for Books

Anonymous

Built AuthorClaw, an OpenClaw-based autonomous writing agent for fiction and nonfiction. Handles full 6-phase, 48-step book production pipeline: market analysis, premise, characters, outline, writing, 3-pass editing, AI beta readers.

Ecommerce Brand Automated — $1,000 in 2 Weeks

Jack

Spent $1,000 over two weeks testing OpenClaw for ecommerce brand. Documented ROI breakdown across product listing, customer service, inventory management automations.

50 Days of Daily OpenClaw Use — 20 Real Workflows

Radek

Used OpenClaw every single day for 50+ days, contributed a skill to ClawHub. Documented 20 real use cases with full prompts in a companion GitHub gist.

Replaced 6+ Apps with One Digital Twin on WhatsApp

Anonymous

Built personal OpenClaw setup that replaced 6+ separate SaaS apps with a single AI agent accessible via WhatsApp. Personal assistant to superagent pipeline.

OpenClaw Built a Calling App and Booked a Dinner Reservation

Nick (co-founder/CPO of QSIC)

Tasked OpenClaw with making a dinner reservation. When online booking failed, the agent autonomously built a calling app, generated a voice, and phoned the restaurant to book.

Full Business Automation Stack: Email Triage, Competitor Intel, Overnight Coding

u/rkovee_poster

Running email automation that triages 47 emails overnight, handles inquiries automatically, and signs up for competitor products to extract market gaps. Plus meeting prep, Fireflies transcripts, continuous Reddit/HN/Twitter monitoring, and overnight coding sessions via Telegram.

3-Agent Content System Built in 4 Hours: Reddit/Twitter/LinkedIn Auto-Posting

u/sideproject_builder

Built 3-agent orchestration system in 4 hours using OpenClaw. Agents scan for engagement opportunities, draft platform-specific responses, and post at optimal times across 4 time zones. All configured via markdown — no code.

OpenClaw Wrapper SaaS Earns $37,459 Solving Setup Pain

SimpleClaw founder

Built a hosted OpenClaw product eliminating setup friction (Docker, servers, security). Users pay to avoid painful setup, not for hosting itself. Multiple similar products in market all earning.

Open-Source AI Newsroom: Automated News Scanning + Curation for ~$5/Month

jacob-bd

Built a complete OpenClaw newsroom pipeline: monitors 5 data sources 24/7, uses Gemini Flash for editorial curation, auto-publishes curated stories. No human intervention needed after setup.

OpenClaw 3D Printer Agent (Find, Design, Slice, Print via Chat)

makermate (GitHub)

Built OpenClaw skills to find/create/edit/slice/print 3D models from chat. Runs on old MacBook with Docker, controls 3D printers on local network.

Grafana Lens: AI Agent for Metrics/Logs/Traces Debugging

awsome-o (GitHub)

Open-source OpenClaw plugin for Grafana. Chat with AI to debug metrics, logs, traces.

AI Newsroom: Automated Scanning, Curation and Publishing Pipeline

Unknown (r/homelab)

OpenClaw agent runs automated AI newsroom: scanning, LLM curation, full publishing pipeline.

Python Automation Platform with Discord Publishing (Zero-Token)

Unknown (r/openclaw)

Built cron scheduler for Python that became full automation platform.

Local AI Agent: OpenClaw + Qwen 3.5 + Telegram (Fully Local)

Unknown (r/LocalLLaMA)

Fully local AI agent with OpenClaw + Qwen 3.5 + Telegram. No cloud APIs.

OpenClaw SEO + Reddit Growth Stack — Automated Competitor Intel + Community Posting

Founder set up OpenClaw to handle SEO tracking and Reddit community growth automation. Demoed the system at a local AI event, other founders immediately wanted it as a consulting service.

5 Profitable OpenClaw Businesses: Setup Services, Security Scanning, Vertical Skills on ClawHub

SuperFrameworks

Analysis of real businesses built around OpenClaw. Top opportunities: managed setup services, security scanning (341 malicious skills found), vertical skill builders earning $100-$1K/mo per skill, hosted cloud versions, analytics dashboards. 700+ skills on ClawHub as of March 2026.

33 OpenClaw Automations That Make Real Money: Documented Real-World Setups

rentierdigital (Medium)

Deep-dive documenting 33 real revenue-generating OpenClaw automations found across Twitter, Reddit, Discord, HN, and the OpenClaw showcase. Covers income generation automations, productivity workflows, business monitoring, and client-facing setups. Written after one week of research into real setups only (no theory).

Non-Developer Ships 4 Products in 3 Weeks

Anonymous Reddit user

Non-developer used OpenClaw to build math tutoring platform, trading bot with TradingView, AI marketing SaaS, and Solana prediction market dApp in 21 days

Canadian Real Estate Broker AI Back Office

Foch (Canadian broker)

Built OpenClaw integrations with Follow Up Boss and kvCORE CRMs for automated lead follow-ups, nurture campaigns, and client record management

Solo DevOps Engineer Built 5-Agent Virtual Infrastructure Team with OpenClaw

u/devops_poster (r/devops)

Created 5-agent virtual DevOps team: Lead Infra Eng orchestrator (via Telegram), plus MongoDB Atlas, Azure Container Apps, Datadog, and Technical Writer agents. Sends instructions via Telegram. Lead spawns sub-agents, collects findings, unifies and publishes to Confluence. CRON mid-day and end-day automated check-ins. Runs on 4vCPU/8GB VM with Claude Sonnet 4.6 + Qwen3.5.

Guy Built iMessage AI on OpenClaw, Got 3 Hinge Dates, Nearly $1K MRR in 5 Days via TikTok

u/esther_founder (r/passive_income)

Built Esther - unrestricted OpenClaw agent accessible via iMessage. Gave it full Hinge access - got 3 dates and got banned (viral story). Also built Minecraft version with AI companion. Agent wrote its own website at tryesther.com. Zero paid marketing - only a semi-viral TikTok about the Hinge incident.

Automated LinkedIn Job Finder and Applicant via OpenClaw

BahnMe (Reddit)

Separate Docker containers per goal: auto-replies to recruiters, sends CV, schedules interviews, searches and applies for jobs automatically

AdeptLoop: Automated Agent Failure Triage

r/openclaw user

Ingests agent traces, figures out what broke and why, surfaces the fix automatically

OpenClaw Wrappers Making Real Money - SimpleClaw $37K Revenue

SimpleClaw/SetupClaw builders

OpenClaw wrapper businesses generating real revenue. SimpleClaw hit $37,459 total. SetupClaw at $23,388. The ecosystem around OpenClaw is creating real businesses.

D2C Ecommerce Ops Hub: 6 APIs Connected via OpenClaw

D2C owner connected 6 APIs (Shopify, shipping, invoicing, banking, ads, inventory) to OpenClaw. Uses 4 AI models. Tracks ROAS per campaign, COD reimbursement, expiring inventory, order fulfillment. All from one chat window.

OpenClaw Tax Prep: AI Found 401k Loan Tax Loophole Accountant Missed

User ran OpenClaw for tax preparation. Agent discovered MSA/401k loan tax provision (deposit into qualified IRA by Oct 15) that hired accountant missed. Saved significant money on taxes.

Automated Bookkeeping Intake from Email and PDFs

OpenClaw agent monitors email inbox, identifies invoices/financial documents, parses PDFs, extracts amounts/dates/vendors, categorizes and prepares for tax consultant. Documented by Codebridge.

Grafana Lens: AI Agent Debugs Your Entire Server Stack

awsome-o (Reddit)

Built an OpenClaw plugin that connects to Grafana. Ask the agent what happened when a container crashes and it parallel-fetches metrics, logs, traces, runs anomaly detection, and gives hypotheses.

Job Finder Agent: Auto-Applies to LinkedIn Jobs

BahnMe (Reddit)

Runs separate Docker containers per goal. LinkedIn instance replies to recruiter messages, sends CV, schedules interviews, and actively searches and applies to job openings automatically.

Full Business Automation Stack: Email + Meetings + Code Deploys

Reddit user (r/AI_Agents)

Agent triages 47 emails overnight, handles customer inquiries automatically, extracts competitor gaps, pulls meeting transcripts for action items, and deploys code via Telegram while at dinner.

OpenClaw Wrapper Businesses Earning 37K+

Reddit r/vibecoding

SimpleClaw earned 37459 dollars and setupclaw earned 23388 dollars building simple wrapper products around OpenClaw. Proves the ecosystem generates real revenue.

Wall Street-Grade Stock Screener With Free APIs

Florin (florinelchis)

Built Bloomberg-grade stock screener scanning 500 S&P 500 stocks in 15 seconds using OpenClaw + free Yahoo Finance and SEC EDGAR APIs. Runs Buffett 10 investment formulas.

Commercial Real Estate Prospecting Agent Team

Adam Smith

Student housing broker built OpenClaw agent team for CRE prospecting. Daily briefing, property research, personalized outreach with approval step.

Music Production AI Co-Producer

HN Community

AI co-producer concept for music production. Helps with sound design, arrangement, mixing, mastering. Augments producers.

claw.fm 24/7 AI Radio Station

claw.fm team

24/7 radio station where AI agents submit music and earn USDC tips. 75/20/5 revenue split.

ClawLink Agent Social Network

CN-Syndra

AI agent-to-agent communication network. Your OpenClaw agent messages other agents directly, they negotiate autonomously and report back. Like LinkedIn for AI agents. 196 stars.

AI Trading Bot Made $2,200 in 9 Minutes

Anonymous (r/vibecoding)

Non-coder built fully local AI trading bot using Qwen3 models on a 5080 GPU. 24 straight winning trades at $100/trade in 9 minutes of testing. Built in 2 days with Python.

Donely Managed OpenClaw Hosting

Harsha (founder)

Fully managed OpenClaw container that goes live in 30 seconds. Connect Gmail, Slack, and 950+ apps. Free tier available. Wrapper product for the OpenClaw ecosystem.

Context Overflow Agent Knowledge Sharing

Unknown

Q&A knowledge sharing platform where AI agents automatically share useful knowledge across sessions. Works with OpenClaw, Claude Code, Cursor. Community memory.

ProofShot Visual Verification for AI Agents

jberthom

CLI that gives AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build. Opens browser, records video + screenshots + logs into self-contained HTML file. Open source.

ClawHub Security Audit Scanner

Security Researcher

Security researcher built a static analysis scanner that audits all 31,000+ OpenClaw ClawHub skills. Found 2,371 malicious (7.6%): crypto wallet theft, credential exfil, prompt injection, reverse shells.

Raspberry Pi AI Business Assistant

Small Business Owner

Built a complete private AI assistant on Raspberry Pi 5 ($100) using OpenClaw + Venice AI + Tailscale. Runs Kimi K2.5 (256K context) for $30/month.

Writing Style Auto-Learner

jzOcb

Open source skill template with auto-learning. AI writes, you edit, rules auto-extracted, SKILL.md improves itself. Works with Claude Code and OpenClaw.

AI Agent Scam Debate: Real Results vs Hype

Viral thread questioning AI agent economy. Skeptics compare to NFTs.

Tencent QClaw — OpenClaw Agent Inside WeChat

Tencent

Tencent packaged OpenClaw into QClaw, a one-click product integrated with WeChat and QQ. 1 billion monthly active users now have direct AI agent access from their messaging app.

Cisco DefenseClaw — Enterprise Security for AI Agents

Cisco/Jeetu Patel

Cisco released DefenseClaw at RSAC 2026, open source framework for scanning, inventory, and sandboxing OpenClaw agent skills. Agent Runtime SDK for policy enforcement.

GitAgent — Turn Any Git Repo Into a Cross-Platform AI Agent

Lyzr

Lyzr launched GitAgent on Product Hunt. One repo as single source of truth for agents, running across Claude Code, CrewAI, and OpenClaw without reformatting.

Hospital Agentic Operating System (arxiv Paper)

Wenxian Yang et al

Researchers built clinical workflow OS on OpenClaw for hospitals

Northeastern University Agent Manipulation Study

Chris Wendler et al

Researchers guilt-tripped agents into leaking secrets and disabling their own systems

Meta AI Safety Chief Email Disaster

Summer Yue

Meta alignment director lost inbox after OpenClaw ignored stop commands

ClawWork: AI Agent Earned $19,915 From $10 in 8 Hours

HKUDS Research Lab (University of Hong Kong)

OpenClaw-based agent starts with $10, completes professional tasks across 44 occupations, gets scored against BLS wage data. Top performer earned $19,915 in 8 hours.

Solo Founder Marketing Department on OpenClaw ($4/mo)

James Devonport (NoCode SaaS)

SaaS founder built 4 OpenClaw agents on $4/mo Hetzner VPS: Meta Ads management, daily blog auto-publishing with Gemini illustrations, Google Analytics integration, social media with emoji approvals via Slack.

Restaurant Customer Support Agent (4hr to 2min Response)

Restaurant deployed OpenClaw for customer support automation. Response time went from 4+ hours to under 2 minutes.

Solo Founder Multi-Agent Team (4 Agents, Zero Employees)

Trebuh

Solo founder runs entire company on 4 specialized OpenClaw agents via single Telegram chat. Strategy, BD, marketing, dev.

16 Production Incidents One Day $1.50 Total Cost

Alex Rezvov

Developer deployed OpenClaw, had 16 incidents day one including 271-message loop, thinking block trap, hallucinated URLs.

Teenage AI Tutors

Patrick Deglon

Father built custom OpenClaw agents for his 14 and 12-year-old sons on $270 SBCs. Manages Minecraft servers, school curriculum, volleyball tournaments. 400-line parenting config.

Felix: Autonomous AI Business

felixcraft.ai builder

OpenClaw agent Felix autonomously built/launched PDF product via Vercel+Stripe. Ran Twitter marketing. Generated $3,500+ in 4 days.

DenchClaw: AI Sales CRM

Kumar (Dench.com)

YC S24 startup built open-source OpenClaw-based CRM. Runs locally. CRM automation and outreach agents.

Advertising Skills Library

realkimbarrett

Battle-tested ad skills for OpenClaw/Claude Code. Direct response, paid ads, funnels, copy systems. 355 GitHub stars.

Outworked: Animal Crossing UI for Claude Code Agent Teams

Open-source desktop app where Claude Code agents work as a team with Animal Crossing-style visual UI. Orchestrator breaks goals into tasks across agents.

Automated 350-Post SEO Blog with OpenClaw + Ghost CMS

Anonymous (Ghost Forum)

Developer built a fully automated SEO content pipeline using OpenClaw connected to Ghost CMS Admin API, image generation APIs, and social media. Agent researches topics, writes posts, publishes directly to Ghost, generates images, and distributes to social — zero manual intervention.

OpenClaw + n8n Hybrid Workflow: AI Brain Meets Deterministic Automation

Anonymous (Reddit r/n8n)

Developer connected OpenClaw (conversational intelligence layer) with n8n (workflow automation) and MiniMax M2.7. Chat input flows to OpenClaw which understands intent, writes structured prompts to Google Sheets, n8n triggers image generation, and results are written back to the sheet automatically.

AI Agent Accesses 55 Social Platforms With No API Keys (opencli-rs-skill)

nashsu (GitHub)

Open source skill for OpenClaw that converts 55+ websites — Twitter/X, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, Bilibili, Notion, and more — into CLI commands for AI agents. Uses existing Chrome login session via Playwright MCP Bridge. No API keys, no rate limits, no credential exports.

Enterprise OpenClaw Cluster for Hundreds of Employees (ClawManager)

Meng Li

Open-source ClawManager project solves the single-machine limitation of OpenClaw by turning it into an enterprise-grade cluster deployable to hundreds or thousands of users. Centralized management, user provisioning, IT-ops-friendly deployment.

OpenClaw Auto-Dream: Automatic Memory Consolidation Like Sleep for AI

LeoYeAI

Skill that runs automatic memory consolidation on a schedule — like sleep for your AI agent. Powered by MyClaw.ai. Solves agent memory fragmentation over long-running deployments.

Claude Code Source Code Exposed via NPM Source Maps

Chaofan Shou (@shoucccc)

Security researcher discovered Anthropic accidentally shipped source maps with Claude Code npm package, exposing the entire proprietary codebase. Multiple GitHub repos archived it within hours. Hit HN front page with developer community dissecting the internals.

AI Agent That Watches You Work and Teaches Itself Your Skills

sandroandric (GitHub)

AgentHandover — observes how you actually work, extracts patterns, and creates self-improving skill files for OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Codex. Agents learn workflows without being explicitly told. 106 stars, created March 30 2026.

MetaClaw: OpenClaw Agent That Evolves From Every Conversation

aiming-lab (research team)

Proxy layer that intercepts every agent conversation, injects relevant skills at each turn, and meta-learns from accumulated experience. Works with OpenClaw, Claude Code, NemoClaw and any OpenAI-compatible client. Research paper arxiv 2603.17187.

KiloClaw: Fully Managed Hosted OpenClaw — No Server Required

Kilo.ai team

Fully managed hosted version of OpenClaw. Deploy in 60 seconds, zero DevOps, enterprise security. Targets non-technical founders who keep hitting the setup barrier. OpenClaw under the hood, better UX on top.

Dental Group Business Intelligence Agent (30 Locations)

Anonymous (ClawCon Austin presenter)

A 30-location dental group connected OpenClaw to its data warehouse so leadership can ask financial performance questions in natural language.

Solo Founder $20/Month Sales Assistant Replacing $2000 Stack

Anonymous (Reddit r/AI_Agents)

Solo founder replaced Apollo, Outreach, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator with one OpenClaw agent on Mac Mini. Handles inbox monitoring, prospect research, personalized outreach, meeting prep.

Fully Automated AI Newsroom Publishing Pipeline

Anonymous (Reddit r/openclaw)

End-to-end automated newsroom: source scanning (Reddit, HN, Twitter), LLM curation, article writing with voice profiles, CMS publishing, social distribution.

AI employee runs SaaS revenue ops

Vayo

Built an OpenClaw agent named Alfred that monitors a Creem store, sends daily revenue digests, catches failed payments, and drafts churn win-back emails.

Morning AI assistant queues the day before coffee

Claire Vo

Claire Vo described an OpenClaw agent named Polly that reads email, checks calendar, and queues her day before she sits down, with other agents handling reminders and outreach.

ClawSecure: CrowdStrike-Style Security for AI Agents

Security scanner and integrity monitoring layer for OpenClaw skills and workflows with ecosystem-aware threat detection and post-install monitoring.

Agents Observe for Claude Code teams

simple10

Built a real-time dashboard for Claude Code multi-agent teams that tracks tool calls, task progress, logs, and inter-agent activity live.

teammate-skill preserves tribal knowledge as an AI skill

LeoYeAI

Turns a teammate's Slack, GitHub, docs, and email history into an AI skill that can review work, answer questions, and write in their style.

MyClaw gives users a full hosted OpenClaw server

LeoYeAI

Hosted personal AI server product where each customer gets a full OpenClaw instance with code control, persistent memory, and deployable skills.

claw0 teaches builders how to recreate OpenClaw from scratch

shareAI-lab

Step-by-step repo with 10 runnable Python sections that teach agent loops, tools, channels, gateway routing, memory, cron, and concurrency.

ClawX turns OpenClaw into a desktop app for everyday users

ValueCell-ai

Desktop GUI for OpenClaw with setup wizard, embedded runtime, channels, cron, skills, provider settings, keychain storage, and multi-platform support.

Multi-Channel AI Customer Service Platform

Futurist Systems

OpenClaw unifies WhatsApp Business, Instagram DMs, Gmail, and Google Reviews into one AI-powered inbox with auto-responses, language matching, and human handoff.

Event Guest Confirmation via AI Voice Calls

awesome-openclaw-usecases

OpenClaw uses SuperCall to call guests one by one, confirm attendance, capture notes like dietary restrictions and plus-ones, and compile a final summary.