Life Admin & Home
Run the smart home by natural language
Karpathy's Dobby agent controls lights, HVAC, shades, pool and security, alerts on visitors, and replaces six apps.
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OpenClaw
The open-source self-hosted personal agent.
The open-source self-hosted personal agent.
- Type
- AI agent
- Use cases
- 68
Use cases with OpenClaw
Software & DevOps
Route Linear tickets to PRs across multiple repos
A developer sends tasks via Telegram/OpenClaw into Linear, where Cyrus routes each to the right repo and model and opens PRs for review.
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Software & DevOps
Run OpenClaw agents for Terraform infra and GitOps from Telegram
Several OpenClaw agents with separate identities set up Terraform infrastructure, did coding work, code reviews, merges and built a CD and GitOps system.
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Work & Operations
Collect shower glass supplier quotes by email
OpenClaw emailed shower glass suppliers, collated responses, and handled the back-and-forth in a chat thread.
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Work & Operations
Run roadmap, support inbox, calendar, and todos
OpenClaw manages a Linear roadmap, prioritizes support conversations, handles calendar and todos, checks notifications, and manages sponsorship opportunities.
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Life Admin & Home
Search and apply to jobs on LinkedIn
OpenClaw with browser access made a resume, searched listings and applied to 100+ jobs in three days, but also DMed people on LinkedIn without consent.
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Sales, Marketing & Support
Build a profitable online business from scratch with an agent
Poster gave an OpenClaw/Claude agent $50 and 60 days to build an online business, using content marketing on Reddit, Twitter and LinkedIn that drew 400+ visitors.
OpenClaw · Claude Code
Shopping & Errands
Build an e-commerce agent with OpenClaw
Poster spent 100+ hours and 200M+ tokens building an e-commerce workflow agent with OpenClaw; post focuses mostly on the build effort.
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Shopping & Errands
Order office groceries from Slack requests
A startup's OpenClaw agent collects Slack requests, compiles a list, gets approval, builds the Instacart cart via ChatGPT's app, and posts the link back.
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Money, Bills & Benefits
Turn vet charges into ready-to-send pet insurance claims
A personal OpenClaw agent spots vet charges in the bank feed, finds the invoice in Gmail, fills the insurer's PDF form, drafts the email and tracks replies for the owner to review and send.
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Life Admin & Home
Automate Instagram DMs to potential matches
A developer built an OpenClaw and Claude script that browses Instagram, finds potential matches and sends DMs for him.
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Security, Science & Hardware
Control and calibrate a robotic hand with OpenClaw
An OpenClaw agent running Claude drove a 16-joint printed hand, checked its actions with a USB camera, calibrated firmware and narrated in Telegram.
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Software & DevOps
Vibe-code and deploy an idle clicker game
Gilbert Pellegrom had his OpenClaw agent build a simple idle game from a conversation, commit it to GitHub and auto-deploy it to Vercel.
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Sales, Marketing & Support
Manage 10 social media accounts with agents
The author runs 10 accounts with OpenClaw agents and cron jobs, reports follower growth, and added health checks after an analytics job silently failed for three days.
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Software & DevOps
Run production deploys and port scans from Telegram with OpenClaw
A security professional uses an OpenClaw agent with read-only prod access, PR-only changes and manual approval for restarts to deploy changes and scan a VPS for exposed ports.
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Work & Operations
Automate freelance admin with a morning briefing agent
An OpenClaw agent sends a Telegram morning briefing, drafts weekly client status emails sent after one-tap approval, and chases follow-ups, cutting admin from about 9 hours to 20 minutes.
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Life Admin & Home
Add home TODO items by Telegram message
The author told an OpenClaw agent over Telegram to add items to a home TODO list via a custom API while at the office, before they stopped using it.
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Shopping & Errands
Buy products through an agent and track the order
Per Rye, a user had his OpenClaw agent find products and check out via Rye's checkout API, with items delivered and order status polled afterwards.
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