Use Cases
Real-world OpenClaw automations from the community
Crypto Bot Trading to Earn Its Own GPU
A user gave their Clawdbot a $2,000 trading wallet on Hyperliquid and told it: earn an RTX 4090 yourself. The bot has been trading 24/7 ever since.
Full Website Rebuild via Telegram from the Couch
A developer rebuilt his entire personal website via Telegram chat while watching Netflix. 18 blog posts migrated from Notion to Astro, DNS moved to Cloudflare — never opened the laptop.
Deployment Fixed by Voice Command While Walking the Dog
An OpenClaw agent on a Hetzner server detected a failed Railway deployment overnight, analyzed the logs, fixed the configs, redeployed, and created a PR — all triggered by voice while walking the dog.
Moltbook — A Social Network Exclusively for AI Agents
Matt Schlicht built Moltbook using his OpenClaw agent — a social network where only AI agents can post and interact. Over 1.5 million agents are active. Humans can only watch.
Content Machine for Social Media ($600-1,200/mo per Client)
An agent that transforms long-form content into X threads, LinkedIn posts, email newsletters, and social posts. Content creators pay $600-1,200/month for this as a service.
Inbox Management as a Service ($400/mo per Client)
Clawdbot sorts, prioritizes, and drafts email responses for lawyers, consultants, and executives. 8 clients at $400/month = $3,200 recurring revenue.
ClawHub Skills Marketplace — The App Store for AI Agents
Build and sell pre-made automation skills on ClawHub. Like the App Store in 2009 — early movers have a massive advantage. One user built a GA4 skill in 20 minutes.
Polymarket Prediction Market Trading Bot
OpenClaw monitors global news feeds and social media sentiment in real-time to automatically open positions on Polymarket, exploiting mispricings before humans can react.
Document Processing Service ($600/mo per Client)
Invoices, PDFs, and forms processed automatically — data extracted into spreadsheets, files sorted and organized. Perfect for dental offices, insurance companies, and real estate agencies.
Managing Three Businesses with a Dusty Mac Studio
After 48 hours of testing Clawdbot, a user turned his dusty Mac Studio into a 24/7 AI agent managing three separate businesses simultaneously.
Smart Calendar Automation with Promise Detection
The agent scans your messages for promises like 'I'll look at that tomorrow,' automatically creates calendar entries, detects scheduling conflicts, and delivers an evening briefing at 8 PM.
Family Assistant — Morning Briefings & Household Management
Aggregates all family calendars into a morning briefing, monitors messages for appointments, manages household inventory, and notifies parents about upcoming school tests.
Inbox Zero via WhatsApp
Hundreds of emails cleaned up, inbox zero achieved, then a weekly cron job set up to maintain it — all controlled entirely through WhatsApp messages.
Smart Home Hub — Email, Home Assistant, SSH, Todos, Shopping List
Everything integrated through one Telegram chat: emails auto-archived, Home Assistant controlled, homelab managed via SSH, todos synced with Things + Apple Notes, shopping list updated.
Sentry → Claw → Codex → PR — Autonomous Bug Fix Pipeline
Bugs get resolved before developers even know about them: Sentry detects a bug, OpenClaw analyzes it, Codex fixes the code, a PR is created, and Slack gets notified. Fully autonomous.
Multi-Agent Business Team via Telegram
Multiple specialized agents — strategy, development, marketing, business — coordinated as a team through a single Telegram chat. Like having a full department in your pocket.
YouTube Content Research Automation
Automated video idea scouting, topic research, and trend tracking for YouTube channels. Daily summaries of new videos from favorite channels with performance analysis.
Earnings Report Tracker with Alerts and Summaries
Automatically tracks tech and AI company earnings reports with previews, real-time alerts, and detailed summaries. Never miss a quarterly report again.
Personalized Reddit Daily Digest
A curated daily digest of your favorite subreddits, filtered by your personal preferences and interests. No more doomscrolling — just the posts that matter.
Automated Grocery Shopping — From Meal Plan to Doorstep
A complete automation chain: meal planning based on preferences, finding items at the grocery store, booking a delivery slot, and confirming the order — all through browser automation.
Automatic Flight Check-In from Email
The agent monitors your email for flight confirmations, runs through the airline's check-in process at the earliest possible time, and automatically selects your preferred seat.
The Ultimate Personal AI Assistant (180M Tokens Burned)
Federico Viticci of MacStories ran OpenClaw with Claude Opus via Telegram, integrating Spotify, Sonos, Philips Hue, Gmail, Notion, and Todoist. Burned through 180 million API tokens.
Wine Cellar Inventory Management
A custom OpenClaw skill that manages a wine cellar inventory via CSV — track bottles, regions, vintages, tasting notes, and get pairing suggestions for dinner plans.
GitHub Code Review Bot via Telegram
OpenClaw monitors GitHub PRs, performs automated code reviews, and sends merge verdicts via Telegram. Developers approve or reject PRs without opening their laptop.
AI Agent for VC Workflows
A venture capitalist configured OpenClaw to automate deal sourcing, founder research, competitive analysis, and memo drafting — turning hours of research into minutes.
Unbrowse — Self-Learning API Skill Generator
Unbrowse auto-discovers APIs from browser traffic and generates OpenClaw skills on the fly — 100x faster than browser automation. No code generation needed.
Serverless AI Agent on Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare's official MoltWorker packages OpenClaw to run in edge containers — production-ready, auto-scaling AI agent on Cloudflare's global network for $5/month.
Natural Language Smart Home via Home Assistant
A community-built Home Assistant add-on that lets you control your entire smart home through natural language via OpenClaw — lights, thermostats, cameras, routines, all through chat.
The $400 Reality Check — Honest Cost of Getting Started
One user spent $400 testing OpenClaw over several weeks and documented every cost: API tokens, server hosting, failed setups, and the real time investment to get things working.
AI-Powered Blog Automation: Research to SEO in 45 Minutes
An open-source template uses Claude Code agents to automate the entire blog workflow — from topic research and competitive analysis to SEO-optimized writing and social media post generation. Reduces content creation from 8 hours to 45 minutes per post.
One Article, Five Platforms: Automated Content Repurposing
A Claude Code workspace transforms a single idea into platform-specific content: long-form articles, LinkedIn posts, newsletter sections, Twitter threads, and podcast Q&A scripts — all in your authentic voice.
Turn Blog Posts into Social Media Content with One Command
Growth Kit converts blog posts into X/Twitter threads, LinkedIn posts, Medium articles, and Dev.to feeds automatically. Works with any repo — Python, Rust, Go — no Node.js required.
Claude Code in Slack: AI Coding Assistant for Your Team
An open-source Slack bot connects Claude Code to your workspace. Team members get coding assistance, code reviews, and AI-powered debugging directly in DMs, channels, and threads — with full MCP server support.
Give Claude Code Access to WhatsApp
A command-line tool written in Go lets Claude Code send and receive WhatsApp messages. Authenticate once via QR code, then automate notifications, customer messages, and group chats — all from the terminal.
Claude Code's Official Slack Integration: Code from Chat
Anthropic's official Slack integration lets teams tag @Claude to delegate coding tasks. Claude reads the conversation, picks the right repo, writes code, runs tests, and submits a pull request — all from a Slack thread.
Managing Thyroid Disease with 9.5 Years of Apple Watch Data
A developer fed Claude Code 9.5 years of Apple Watch health data to detect thyroid flare-ups 3 weeks before lab results. The ML model now runs as an iOS app with a real-time risk dashboard.
Building a Personal AI Running Coach
A product manager with a passion for endurance sports built an AI-powered running coach using Claude Code as a personal project — tracking workouts, analyzing performance, and generating training plans.
Vibe-Coding a Weightlifting Tracker with Claude Code
A developer documented building a strength training tracking app with Claude Code, sharing honest lessons about what vibe coding can and can't do for moderately complex applications.
Let Claude Design in Figma: Real-Time AI Design Control
An open-source MCP plugin lets Claude control Figma directly — creating shapes, styling text, building layouts, and using team library components. 372 stars on GitHub.
Claude Code as a Figma Replacement for Small Teams
A design leader tested using Claude Code instead of Figma for prototyping. Verdict: it works for very small teams who want fast coded prototypes, but medium-to-large teams should stick with Figma for collaboration.
Building AI-Driven Design Workflows with Claude Code + Figma MCP
UX Collective published a deep dive on using Claude Code with Figma MCP for agentic design workflows — subagents pulling design context from Figma while validating against browser behavioral data.
Automated Invoice Filing for Tax Season
A Claude skill transforms messy invoice folders into tax-ready filing systems. Reads PDFs and scanned receipts, extracts vendor/date/amount, renames files to a standard format, and generates CSV summaries for your accountant.
Personal CRM: From Meeting Transcripts to Branded Proposals
A freelancer built a personal CRM using Claude Code that auto-syncs meeting transcripts, links them to projects, generates proposals from meeting notes, and exports branded PDFs — all from the terminal.
Run Your Entire Dev Workflow from WhatsApp
A developer wired Claude Code to WhatsApp and now manages their entire development workflow from their phone — reviewing code, running tests, deploying, and handling client requests while mobile.
Stock & Investment Analyst
A skill that analyzes US stocks, A-Shares, and HK stocks, pulls financial data from Alpha Vantage/SEC, and creates detailed reports including DuPont analysis.
Arduino Programming via Chat
The agent writes Embedded C++ code for Arduino UNOs and flashes it directly to hardware, controlled purely via chat commands like Telegram.
AI Trend Monitor
Automatically monitors arXiv, Hugging Face, Reddit, and GitHub for new AI trends and creates daily summaries of hot topics.
Insurance Claim Dispute Agent
A viral case where the agent autonomously analyzed an insurance denial from Lemonade, drafted an appeal, and reopened the case.
Smart Home Evening Mode
Controls Philips Hue and Sonos devices via chat. A single command like 'It's evening' dims lights and starts specific playlists.
GitHub PR Manager
Monitors repositories, summarizes pull requests, checks failed tests in CI/CD logs, and reports critical failures directly in messenger.
Daily Morning Briefing
Automatically creates a morning message with weather, first 3 calendar entries, and top headlines from BBC News — without opening any apps.
SEC Insider Trading Watch
A specialized skill that retrieves SEC Form 4 data to monitor insider trading activities of CEOs and directors.
Docker Container Management
Manage Docker containers (start, stop, read logs) and create sandbox environments directly from chat.
Whoop Health Tracker Integration
Integrates health APIs like Whoop to query sleep and recovery data and compile it into a daily health log.
Email Triage & Inbox Zero
Agent scans inbox, summarizes important emails, drafts replies, and can unsubscribe from newsletters automatically.
Social Media Brand Monitor
Daily searches platforms like X for brand mentions, analyzes sentiment, and reports complaints immediately.
X/Twitter Bookmark Search
Saves bookmarks with embeddings so users can ask semantic questions like 'What did I save about sleep optimization?'
Baby Activity Log Analyzer
A niche skill that analyzes JSON logs from baby trackers (sleep, feeding, diapers) and identifies patterns.
Server Log Monitoring via SSH
Agent accesses servers via SSH, monitors log files in real-time, and alerts on anomalies or crashes via Telegram.
Automatic Package Tracking
Extracts tracking numbers from emails or messages and queries delivery status from carriers to send updates.
Meeting Transcription & Action Items
Converts audio notes or meeting recordings to text and automatically extracts action items and to-dos.
Dating App Assistant
The 'flirtingbots' skill automates interactions on dating platforms or gives advice for chat responses — experimental and humorous.
Security & Malware Scanner
Integrates VirusTotal to scan files or URLs for malware before opening — critical given the many malicious skills in the ecosystem.
Competitor Overnight Monitoring
OpenClaw monitors competitors overnight, analyzes their activities and reports on successes or failures the next morning.
Business Operations Full Automation
Complete control of email, CRM, and task management for a business, including daily briefings and workflow orchestration.
Content Production Pipeline
Handles video production from idea to upload, including editing, optimization, and distribution across platforms.
Calendar Management Agent
Manages Google Calendar autonomously — creates events, handles invitations, and resolves scheduling conflicts.
Google Docs & Sheets Editor
Edits Google Docs and Sheets based on natural language instructions received via chat.
Weekly Insight Reports Generator
Generates weekly analytical reports on topics like competitors, personal metrics, or industry trends.
Travel Planning & Price Tracking
Tracks prices for flights and hotels, creates itineraries, and alerts when deals match your preferences.
Social Media Growth Analyzer
Analyzes X/Twitter activities, suggests new post ideas, and tracks engagement metrics over time.
AI Project Manager via WhatsApp
Links code repository, Linear, WhatsApp history, and Obsidian so OpenClaw coordinates tasks as a project manager across multiple tools.
Phone Call Appointment Scheduler
OpenClaw calls customers, coordinates appointments, and manages calendar entries for a service business.
Lean Manufacturing Platform
Multi-agent system combining lean production knowledge, tools, and digital assistants to optimize manufacturing processes.
WhatsApp Business Automation
AI chatbot based on OpenClaw that automates WhatsApp customer service and CRM workflows for a business.
Autonomous Slack Support & Bugfixing
Bot monitors Slack channels, answers employee and customer questions, detects production bugs in code, and automatically provides fixes.
Camera Trigger for Beautiful Skies
OpenClaw connected to a roof camera analyzes the sky and triggers photo captures and notifications when conditions are beautiful.
Emergency Radio Signal Decoder
Agent independently researches, configures, and operates a setup for decoding emergency radio signals in about 30 minutes.
Smart Glasses Price Comparison
Hacked smart glasses feed visual input to OpenClaw so the agent 'sees' what you see and performs real-time price comparisons.
Zombie Hardware Revival
Old laptop with broken display runs headless with OpenClaw, given its own Gmail/Telegram/WhatsApp identity as a persistent agent.
AI Managing Other AI Models
OpenClaw orchestrates other AI models, has them discuss code reviews, and makes final decisions about changes.
Automated Meal Planning in Notion
Agent creates weekly meal plans in Notion, suggests recipes based on preferences, generates shopping lists, and tracks food budgets.
Full-Stack App Deployment Agent
OpenClaw builds and deploys a complete Laravel app on DigitalOcean including database, SSL setup, and CI/CD pipeline.
Self-Preservation Server Migration
Agent autonomously plans migration of its own environment to a remote server as a response to the risk of a stolen laptop.
Weather-Controlled Heating System
OpenClaw controls the heating system based on weather data, forecasts, and indoor temperature, learning optimal heating schedules.
Automated School Lunch Booking
Parents use OpenClaw to automatically book school lunches via ParentPay, including browser mouse coordinate automation.
Receipt Processing & Expense Spreadsheets
Processes receipts and invoices, automatically creating structured spreadsheets for expense tracking.
Lead Generation via Forum Scanning
Agent scans forums and communities, identifies relevant leads, and collects contact data or topics for outreach.
Multi-Agent Database Sync
Uses a Supabase backend so multiple OpenClaw agents keep information synchronized and share data access.
Video Production Automation Pipeline
Connected to Google Flow pipelines to automate script prompting, iterations, and video production.
Stock & Price Alerts Agent
Monitors stock prices and sends notifications when they cross configured thresholds.
Browser Automation for Purchases
Fills out forms, triggers orders, and performs price checks automatically via browser automation.
Kubernetes Deployment of OpenClaw
Run OpenClaw in Kubernetes, with monitoring, scaling, and Helm chart deployment.
Automated Contract & Document Review
Pre-filters documents and creates summaries for lawyers, reducing manual review time significantly.
Social Media Multi-Platform Posting
Schedules and publishes posts across multiple social media platforms from a single interface.
Support Ticket Auto-Triage
Classifies incoming support tickets, sends simple responses automatically, and escalates complex issues.
Web Scraping for Structured Reports
Regularly extracts structured data from websites and compiles them into formatted reports.