336 Ways to Use OpenClaw (here's what actually works)

I just built a database of 336 ways that people are using OpenClaw, including use cases for productivity, to automate their businesses, or even to make money.

And I found ways to use it that are genuinely surprising. Personally, I've

genuinely surprising. Personally, I've been using OpenClaw since it released back when it was still called CloudBot.

And so, I was curious, what are other people now actually using it for a month after its release? So, I scraped hundreds of sources across YouTube, GitHub, Reddit, X, and the open web and put them all into one place. And in this

video, I'll go through the top use cases, a few surprising observations, and some insight on whether OpenClaw is just all hype or if it's here to stay.

And if you're new here, my name is Jay.

I spent over a decade working with brands you probably know. Have been in AI since my masters in data science. And

now I run our AI solutions practice in one of the largest AI communities globally. Let's get started.

globally. Let's get started.

So, what's Open Claw? OpenClaw is an AI agent that is sort of like chat GBT but the difference is you can add it to your own messaging or team apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack and so on and apart from that it can also do things on

your behalf because you give it its own computer which right now a lot of people are using Mac minis for but you can also use an old computer or some people do it via a VPS a virtual private server which

is basically a computer in the cloud and because it's like a digital employee it can connect to and use the tools that you use with some limitations of course which will get you in use cases later.

And it's also the fastest growing open- source project in the history of GitHub.

And GitHub you can think of as the biggest social media platform for coders and developers. And if you're in the AI

and developers. And if you're in the AI space, you for sure have heard of OpenClaw at least once. Now, I've been using OpenClaw for a while now. And I

think it would be interesting to see if there are big pockets of usage that I'm not aware of yet, and to see if people are actually making money from it, if they really are. And what I did is put them in this database, which you can also get access to. You can search and

also filter for the specific use cases that you are interested in. You can also copy the prompt so that you can just send it to your agent to get started with this specific use case. And what I also did is link the specific timestamp of, let's say, the YouTube video that

this was sourced from so that you can instantly watch or read the source where it was pulled from. Now, a quick disclaimer. I don't think OpenClaw is

disclaimer. I don't think OpenClaw is for everyone yet. It's barely only a month old since it garnered attention and there are obvious security risks if you don't know what you're doing and it can also rack up a lot of token costs, so it can get quite expensive. Now,

OpenAI did just hire the creator of OpenClaw. So, you can probably expect a

OpenClaw. So, you can probably expect a more mass market version of this eventually. And when that happens, it'll

eventually. And when that happens, it'll be like putting this power into chat GPT, which is accessible to everyone.

But for now, if you just want to learn, you can just watch videos like this first because for the average consumer, honestly, you can just wait for a better version. So, with that said, let's get

version. So, with that said, let's get into what people are actually doing with this thing. Because interestingly the

this thing. Because interestingly the biggest category of use cases that I saw and people are talking about is all related to openclaw setup like how to configure it, how to organize your files and how to set up your agent properly.

And it sort of reminded me of when notion first came out because when notion was gaining popularity, everyone was obsessed with building the perfect second brain. So there's templates like

second brain. So there's templates like these everywhere and a lot of productivity creators are also showing their setups. And so what ends up

their setups. And so what ends up happening is that people spend more time organizing notion than actually using it. I think the same thing is actually

it. I think the same thing is actually happening with Open Club because it's so new because everyone's trying to perfect their agent setup, their workspace, their memory system, all those skills that you would have, which is cool, but

I'm not sure if how to set up the thing counts as a use case really. And if

you're not careful, you may fall into the trap of productivity procrastination, which is basically just optimizing the system instead of doing the work. But if that's what you're

the work. But if that's what you're into, some of the best setup tips I found are the following. A lot of people are putting their agents in team apps like Slack or Discord, which sort of emulates how you would organize your own

team of employees, right? So, this is a cool video by Brian on how to do that.

And honestly, I'll probably do this as well if I had all the time in the world.

Personally, for my case, I just have a simple setup. I have Telegram with

simple setup. I have Telegram with separate groups. So, I have this thread

separate groups. So, I have this thread with Robo, who's like my main assistant.

I have this separate group I named dev for like development work and creating websites like the database that you just saw. and then another thread for

saw. and then another thread for creative work like brainstorming, scripting, presentations for clients and all of that. And in case you're also using Telegram for OpenClaw, it's very simple to set this up. All you need to do is to create a new group and add

yourself as well as your bot into that group and then just ask your main agent to set that up and also to if you want adopt a separate personality and even create a different soul.md for this specific group. And apart from that, a

specific group. And apart from that, a lot of people set up their own mission control dashboard as well as morning briefings that I know Alex talks about a lot. And that's actually pretty useful.

lot. And that's actually pretty useful.

If you want like a really custom view of your calendars, your notion notebooks, your to-do list, you can have OpenCloud build custom versions of that for you.

There's also some hygiene use cases here like having a model fallback chain so that you can manage costs better. So

let's say you have a tier one model like Opus 4.6 that handles the more difficult tasks and are also more expensive. And

then you can have a tier 2 fallback option for tasks that are simpler. So

that's pretty basic at this point, I think. And you can also equip it with a

think. And you can also equip it with a humanizer skill that basically removes the AI smell from all content. So

essentially, Matthew here runs all AI written content through this skill that removes telltale AI patterns. So with

all these use cases and open clause best practices, to be honest, I think it's very dependent on the person because you can customize it however way you wish. I

do think though that the biggest takeaway for these use cases is that when you think of setting up these agents, you need to have a role to be done mindset instead of a task to be done mindset. And what that basically

done mindset. And what that basically means is similar to what Brian did here where he has an admin, he has a developer, a marketer, and an overall assistant. This is also similar to my

assistant. This is also similar to my setup. And so once you get into these AI

setup. And so once you get into these AI agents like OpenClaw, you also need to think about if you were hiring a team today to help you with your life admin in your business potentially in the future, what roles can you fill with these agents? But even though that's the

these agents? But even though that's the biggest use case, that's probably the least interesting for you if you've already used Open Claw quite a lot. And

so the next biggest chunk here is coding and development. And this might just be

and development. And this might just be because OpenClaw is only roughly a month old since it garnered attention. But a

lot of the early adopters by their nature do work in coding and development. So there's a lot of use

development. So there's a lot of use cases here. Now personally I think a lot

cases here. Now personally I think a lot of these are interesting. But if I were developing something for real like a full stack application with O and database integrations, I would probably still prefer to use antigravity or cloud

code just because it gives you more control overall especially on costs. Now

that said, where openclaw shines is that for simpler builds, it actually has a unique advantage. So for example, this

unique advantage. So for example, this database website that you are looking at, I built this entirely with openclaw and I did it while I was away from my keyboard having lunch that yesterday I just had this idea that I just opened up Telegram and asked it to build this out

for me. So it was able to find sources

for me. So it was able to find sources on YouTube, on Reddit, on X and was able to already organize a draft that is ready when I came back. So that's a pretty unique advantage like the benefit of convenience and being able to bring

it with you without you having to think of it just lets you build things on the fly like this one that you are seeing right here. Now when it comes to coding

right here. Now when it comes to coding and development there are a couple of use cases that I was able to capture here. But at least for myself when we're

here. But at least for myself when we're working in production and when you need to worry about real things like security as well as costs, it's probably better to stick to claude code and anti-gravity to help you assist with a lot of these

coding tasks. But you can see here a lot

coding tasks. But you can see here a lot of people are using openclaw for PR reviews to have an automation that essentially reviews their code every night and then even spin up canband boards so that they can manage their

open clause tasks just like you would in like a scrum setup. Now the next category of use cases that I think is really interesting and where openlow really shines at least how I use it personally is when it comes to life

admin as well as using it for your own self-growth or development. So what

exactly is life admin? Well, throughout

your day, there's probably a ton of little tasks that you wish you could automate. But the problem is the time it

automate. But the problem is the time it takes to figure out how to automate it doesn't really justify the time that you'd save from it, at least how it was in the past. So, what ends up happening is that you just do it manually or you

have a bunch of different applications that help you automate that part of your life. Now, what's different with

life. Now, what's different with OpenClaw is that you can literally just ask it if it can automate that life admin task for you. And just to give one example, so I had lasic eye surgery recently and as part of the posttop,

part of the doctor's prescription is this set of eye drops that one of them needs to be applied every hour, the other needs to be applied every 2 hours and the last one needs to be applied every 4 hours. Now I can obviously set up my reminders on my phone and try to

figure that out or I even thought about downloading a specific mobile app just to remind me about those medicine. But

what I realized is that I can literally just give that direction to Robo and take a photo of those instructions and I ask it to set alarms for me depending on the frequency that my doctor wanted to.

I even ask it to nag me a bit if in case I didn't reply that I've taken them just so that I don't miss any medication that was prescribed to me. In fact, if you take a look at all the skills that I made with Open Close so far, a lot of them are related to live admin stuff

like integrating with to-do list, having that daily learning and daily news skills and a couple of other things that I'm experimenting with. And so if you go to the live admin use cases we were able to scrape, it's pretty much the same pattern. Matthew here had a similar use

pattern. Matthew here had a similar use case where basically he asked his OpenClaw to set up recycling schedule reminders because in his area he has a weird trash pickup schedule. If you're

brave enough to give OpenClaw access to your email, then it can also help you summarize those newsletter subscriptions for you. Alex also talked about

for you. Alex also talked about automatic meeting prep documents, which are really good, especially if your calendar is full of meetings every time.

And Kyle here also talks about a job search agent. So let's say you want to

search agent. So let's say you want to be alerted on a specific opening for a specific company or industry. That's

something that your agent can also monitor. Now a related category and use

monitor. Now a related category and use case for open claw is when it comes to self-growth or self-development. One

specific way that I use it for myself is that when I have a bit of a downtime and instead of making it a habit to just browse Tik Tok or Reddit or X. What I

try to do now is just tell Robo that hey I'm in learning mode. What can I learn?

And what I set up with him previously is this skill where it will pick one topic that is work or AI related that it thinks I may be interested in and one other topic or video or article that it thinks I will like depending on my other

interests. And then because it has a log

interests. And then because it has a log on his memory on things that it recommended to me before and also the feedback that I give it on things that I like and don't like. Then it's able to refine this and provide better content for me to give my attention to. Now from

our list obviously custom morning briefings is pretty much one of the top use cases you probably heard about at this point and I do this as well and it can be customized to whatever it is that you like and whatever news that you are tuned into. You can even take it further

tuned into. You can even take it further and give it a view of your goals for the week or for the month and even build a custom dashboard for it which Alex also talks about here. Some people even use it for journaling. And how they do it is basically they have a voice

transcription app on their phone like on Telegram where you just speak to it and every day it can log that to its own markdown file that essentially logs your journal for the day. And that's

something that you can go back to and even generate insights from as you use it more. And there's several more here.

it more. And there's several more here.

It really depends on the person obviously. But I think the reason why

obviously. But I think the reason why this is such a common use case for openclaw is because unlike giving open claw access to business specific or business sensitive information a lot of these life admin and self-growth tasks

are pretty low risk in nature and so even if you share that to openclaw and somehow your instance gets compromised the risk to you is likely not that high unless of course if you share your banking details which is probably not a

good idea at this point. Now related to that are also some use cases around smart home integrations. I haven't done this personally because I think the setup is a bit more complex. But one

pretty cool use case here is this one from Velvet Shark where he linked up Open Claw to his e- in display on his own and every morning it gives him an illustration of an event that happened on this day in history and then he tries

to guess it. So if you're someone who likes history and wants to learn about history, this is a pretty fun way to do that. There's even some interesting

that. There's even some interesting experiments that I found like this vision claw future where basically it integrates your open claw to your meta glasses and it gives it vision capabilities as well. And I guess if you use smart glasses a lot, it may be

useful because instead of using your phone, you can just tap the AI button on your metagasses and you can give it whatever commands that you would on like Telegram or Discord. Now obviously a lot of these smart home use cases as the

whole AI agent ecosystem matures, these will probably be absorbed by the Googles or the Alexexas of the world because for sure even Google is aware of what Open Claw's capabilities are and are trying to see how it can be integrated across

their ecosystem. There's also use cases

their ecosystem. There's also use cases on health which is not a lot. It's only

like 3% of the use cases we found and probably it's largely because of the fact that OpenClaw as a 1-month-old technology. It's not yet the most

technology. It's not yet the most trusted application out there, but you can see people here set up their own health trackers, allergen detections, even an automated fitness coach. Now, to

talk a bit about the limitations of this tool, what I actually did personally is to try and replace my fitness pal as my calorie tracker with OpenClaw. But I

think a key limitation is that by itself, OpenCloud doesn't necessarily have access to a huge database of food items, especially here in Australia, right? And so if you're thinking about a

right? And so if you're thinking about a clear moat or advantage of these old SAS apps, it's probably their databases.

Like for example, My Fitness Pal right now from our research, they don't have like a public facing API yet. And when I checked out these alternatives, they don't really have the same food items that I was looking for. And their

database is not as big as My Fitness Pal. And so even though I wanted to

Pal. And so even though I wanted to automate this whole calorie tracking with Open Claw such that I can just tell it what I'm eating and it'll be able to log everything for me. Unfortunately,

because it doesn't have the same access to that database that My Fitness Pal has built up, it wasn't able to do that for me. If I want to track the calories and

me. If I want to track the calories and the food I eat, I still need to log those to My Fitness Pal manually because it has the biggest database with all of the food items even here in Sydney. Now,

the next category of use cases we found is content as well as marketing. And it

comprises actually a pretty huge portion of these. But I think it's mainly

of these. But I think it's mainly because a lot of the people who are sharing their use cases online are also content creators. And so it just comes

content creators. And so it just comes naturally that they would use it for their own content. Obviously I use openclaw for this use case as well like finding keyword trending videos in my specific industry just so that I get

updated on what my peers are doing and which one is hitting. People have also set up specific skills for Reddit for example just to get a digest of top performing posts on subreddits that you may want to be monitoring. And here 9X

also talked about finding podcast guests to research relevant people and also find their contact information. Now the

other space I'm quite excited about is using OpenClaw for marketing. And here

9X has a really cool video where he asked OpenClaw to publish ads to Meta in draft mode for review. And if you've ever set up meta ads before, it's quite a pain to do them manually honestly. And

so having an automation to help you out, especially as OpenClaw gets more robust in the future is definitely a good use case to do. He also showed a pipeline here around researching competitors by

basically just giving openclaw access to the meta ads library in order to find out some insights on what your competitors are doing. Now, another

interesting category that is probably best to be observed for now versus integrating it into your own open claw is finance. Now, this is a category that

is finance. Now, this is a category that I personally wouldn't do or recommend for obvious reasons, but there are people who apparently are connecting their open claw to their bank statements in order to do a subscription audit to find and track recurring charges. They

even connected to their investment accounts in order to get like daily updates and even threshold alerts. Maybe

just to have like a custom alert instead of the ones that are built in or out of the box in whatever application they're already using. And some people even set

already using. And some people even set up trading accounts for their own open call like this one by function where supposedly his open claw got a pretty good profit just by automating their trades. And there's a couple more

trades. And there's a couple more examples on finance here. But again,

browse at your own risk because this category is probably the last thing that you want your open claw to do for you.

And last but not the least, the final bucket that we have here is around money or how people are using OpenClaw to make money. And I'm mostly curious on what

money. And I'm mostly curious on what people are claiming now just a month after release. As a general principle,

after release. As a general principle, if someone is saying they're already making six figures with OpenClaw, you probably need to be skeptical because this technology is literally only a few weeks old at this point. But having

looked at these use cases, which I just marked as unverified, just to make that super clear. I think there's a few

super clear. I think there's a few interesting patterns that are emerging.

The first one is that there are actually services right now that help you deploy open claw for yourself or maybe for your business. This is just one example

business. This is just one example called simple claw that promises to avoid all technical complexity and just do a one-click deploy for their agent.

This is another one called setup claw which pretty much does the same thing and it's a real service that essentially for any managed service provider you would expect something like this where they have a kickoff call they have a deployment stage and then they have some

sort of hyperare sort of warranty stage where they're accountable for tuning workflows and maybe skills personally I think this is mostly an arbitrage opportunity and this time period is probably just a small window where these

kinds of services can offer this types of personal setups because most likely what will happen especially since openai and probably even entropic and Google are interested in this type of technology is that they will probably release some sort of mass market version

of this and that will make it super easy for anyone to deploy their own AI agent.

That said, even though deploying OpenClaw will get really easy in the future, especially for personal use, I think there will always be a market for deploying this stuff for businesses cuz if you think about it, this is actually the bread and butter of managed service

providers in IT world. So companies like Accenture, Infosys, this is what they do. They partner with businesses to

do. They partner with businesses to implement tools like at least right now Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and just cloud infrastructure in general. So

those are really easy to do and deploy for yourself, but for businesses, it's important to have a service provider because these would be the guys that are accountable to build it and if things go down, they're on the hook to fix it. So

I think AI agents will follow a similar pattern. As this technology matures, you

pattern. As this technology matures, you can position yourself as a managed service provider for AI agents and implement them for your specific industry. They say if you're into legal,

industry. They say if you're into legal, healthcare, real estate, whatever, because at the end of the day, businesses will need some sort of accountability and that accountability needs to come in the form of a human still. So if the agent goes down, then

still. So if the agent goes down, then someone needs to fix it. If the agent does something wrong, then someone needs to be responsible and that's the role that these service providers fill in it.

The other thing that I think will be quite big in the future is this piece about the template economy. So going

back to that analogy for notion earlier.

With notion, yes, you can create your own templates from scratch, but a lot of people are making real money just by selling notion templates because people do look for them. Similar to Canva templates, similar to Shopify templates

or applications because a common pattern you can observe is when a tool makes a piece of technology easy. Templates

follow. So Shopify, for example, made e-commerce easy and it gave rise to Shopify themes, Shopify apps, e-commerce experts, there's a whole ecosystem around it. I think open claw may be

around it. I think open claw may be largely similar because even though you can build your own complicated mission control dashboard that is hyper customized to your needs that probably takes a lot of time and a lot of tokens

but if you have a template that you can just import and then have your open claw edit that then that is probably something that people will pay for down the line in fact what can potentially happen in the future is let's say you follow someone like Peter levels who is

big in the indie hacking space if he uses openclaw or a technology similar to openclaw and it becomes more mainstream if he starts to sell his setup like his skills and his templates and how he uses

Open Claw. I'm pretty sure that a lot of

Open Claw. I'm pretty sure that a lot of his 800,000 followers would be willing to spend money for that because that's how Peter works and people, especially his followers, would want to emulate that. So, there you go. Hopefully, this

that. So, there you go. Hopefully, this

gave you a few ideas of how people are using OpenClaw. And I'm actually keen to

using OpenClaw. And I'm actually keen to learn other use cases as well. So, if

there's others that are not yet mentioned here, then let me know below.

But, if you want to get a copy of this whole database, I just also made it available in the description. That's it

for this one. I'll see you guys next time. Thank you.

time. Thank you.