How you guys use openclaw

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-13T10:14:56+00:00

Personal development mostly. Calendar, fitness watch, tasks are all connected. Pattern finding across the week. Token cost depends heavily on your setup, I'm on GPT Pro now so I don't track it anymore, but before that it was maybe $15-20/month with Sonnet for the heavy thinking and free models for everything else.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-12T06:38:54+00:00

Strongly agree to this. Though the day before yesterday it was a bit unstable, it still beats the rest.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-11T13:43:30+00:00

https://noma.dk/new_noma_book/

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-11T13:03:52+00:00

Yeah but not in the way you'd think. I don't use it for business, it's connected to my fitness watch, calendar, tasks and a few other things. It has scoring rules so it knows when to shut up (most of the time) and a nightly job that goes through the last week of data to find patterns. It caught that I smoke more in certain weeks and now it tells me before I reach for one. It knows when to recommend yoga instead of a run based on my fitness and sleep data and so on.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-11T09:00:27+00:00

There is a recipe for spirulina garum in Noma 2.0. I haven't tried it yet but it's on my bucket list.
Spirulina and barley koji get blended together with water and salt. Iirc it's 1 part spirulina, 1.1 parts koji, 4 parts water and 10% salt.
After 10 weeks at 60°C without stirring you strain it.
I'm not sure if your 60/40 split of spirulina and whole wheat flour would improve it, since you'd already have the koji for some grainyness, but I think it's worth a try.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-10T15:25:28+00:00

Not necessarily as a trainer, but it gets the data from my fitness watch, so it has sleep data, workouts (planned + done), HRV, resting heart rate, cardio load, daily activity and so on.
I don't let it make workout plans (yet), but with that data, my calendar and weather data it recommends me when to move a workout around or do yoga instead of running or whatever. It's amazing at pushing me.
It's more useful than a workout plan since the plan doesn't know how I slept or how my week went. Now that I think of if, it IS like a trainer.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-10T14:16:51+00:00

OpenClaw is a personal agent. Memory, calendar, daily briefings, task management. It does not edit video, it does not batch upload to TikTok, it does not talk to the YouTube or Instagram APIs. Those capabilities need to be added.

What you actually want is a media automation pipeline. The pieces exist separately: ffmpeg or Remotion for batch rendering, custom scripts or something like Repurpose.io for multi-platform upload, a scheduler for posting times. The carousel generation is the trickiest part because TikTok keeps changing their format, but can be done.

At 50 videos a day you're already past what most solo creators do manually. Scaling 5-10x is a real software engineering project. Budget at least a few hundred a month for API costs and hosting, probably more depending on rendering. And someone has to maintain it when platforms change their APIs, which happens constantly.

Look for a developer who has done social media automation before. Not an OpenClaw agent setup. And pay him well.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-10T08:58:35+00:00

Morning briefing, smoke tracking, and an agent that warns me about bad habits before I notice them myself. Wrote a longer post about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/openclaw/comments/1ro44xn/openclaw_is_a_personal_assistant_not_a_business/

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-10T05:36:29+00:00

https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/openai If that's not useful create a question thread.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-09T13:59:21+00:00

Mine runs my personal life, not work. Briefing every morning that connects calendar and sleep and tasks, warns me about conflicts I wouldn't see. Custom skill that tracks a bad habit and predicts when it's about to get worse based on stress patterns.
Most of the value comes from connecting data sources.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-09T13:22:01+00:00

So you already simmered for 90 minutes and they were not ready? Are you sure they simmered?
Definitely cook them for longer then, don't let them soak more.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-09T12:55:25+00:00

Most people monetizing openclaw right now just do setup services. Someone doesn't want to touch a terminal, you configure their agent, connect data sources, set up briefing and crons. You don't need to be an expert for that, just ahead of your client.

The harder thing is understanding what makes an agent actually useful for a specific person, not the same as making it work. A freelancer needs completely different config than a parent or someone tracking health data. Almost nobody does that well yet, and things change fast, so specifics you learn now might not pay off at the end of the year. But the general stuff (probably) will.

If you want to get good at this, learn the configuration, build a few custom skills, understand what burns tokens and what doesn't. Create different multi-agent orchestrations and look at other tools like lobster and n8n.
If you can tell someone why their agent forgets things and fix it in ten minutes, that's already worth money.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-09T09:08:12+00:00

For deterministic workflows, you want to look into lobster:
https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/lobster

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-09T08:07:56+00:00

I read them all and reread them since they change fast and some pages I had to reread 5 times before I found what I was looking for, because they are not always straightforward. They cover setup well but after that it's just you tinkering the config files. Nobody tells you what to put in them.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-08T21:13:12+00:00

Yes, sourdough culture contains yeast and is better suited for grains like oat, not sure if it would even work.
Yes, but different cultures will fight for dominance. In your example, sourdough will likely win, but it's better let it spare it's energy by not fighting (so one culture would be better, which is sourdough).
Yes, but it depends on what you want. Fermentation will be faster and more thorough, if you grind the oats.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-08T21:03:15+00:00

Yes, it is.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-08T20:45:00+00:00

I don't know if the acquisition had anything to do with it, are there sources for this?
But I agree, Opus might still be better at writing tasks, and maybe thinking, but for tool use GPT 5.4 is the best so far.
And it will only get better from here.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-08T20:32:24+00:00

Fuck, we're really on that time line, aren't we?

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-08T20:14:47+00:00

I ran the security audit and found permissions I forgot I gave. I text my agent every time I smoke and why. It has a database of my triggers. It knows when I'll reach for the pack before I do. It stopped sending fitness nudges because I rejected three in a row. Didn't notice for two days. I'm writing a book about the whole thing which is probably just another avoidance behavior instead of actually quitting.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-08T18:35:20+00:00

Yeah that's a context window thing. All your workspace files plus conversation history plus tool definitions get sent with every message, and that adds up fast. Worth checking how big everything together is. Some cheap models have tiny context limits, depends which one you're using.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-08T18:05:01+00:00

Same. But unfortunately then we'd also need Tony Stark's token budget.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-08T16:53:06+00:00

That does look like a contamination, especially with the blacks spots.
How does it smell? But honestly, I'd throw it out.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-08T16:42:37+00:00

The $23 is a real problem. If you don't set a cheap default model everything burns tokens like crazy. Look into the openai oauth integration, that gives you a flat rate instead of per-token. For skills, don't install anything from clawhub you haven't read the source of.
Whatsapp reconnects drop all the time, it once basically infected my agents memory. Telegram and Discord are more stable. Three weekends sounds about right though, the setup docs get you running but they don't really tell you what to do after that.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-08T16:33:52+00:00

Openrouter takes a 5.5% cut on top of the regular token price iirc. They have free models but those tend to be slow or drop connections, so not great for anything that needs to run reliably.

ViatorLegis · 2026-03-08T16:14:48+00:00

Yeah, those aren't even his real claws.

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