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by nlitened 4 hours ago
About three weeks ago I was seduced by people singing praise to OpenClaw, and also by the fact that OpenClaw team burns millions of dollars of tokens per month on developing it — surely it must be good.

It turned out to be probably the crappiest, glitchiest piece of software I’ve used in the past few years. Its basic onboarding workflow was completely broken, GUI was a hallucinated mess.

Also it turned out that not a single person I know who dedicated time to configuring it, ever achieved anything remotely interesting as a result.
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mikenew 2 hours ago
That was my experience a couple months ago, and until someone shows me real evidence of something valuable they've made with it, I'm not wasting my time on this stuff again.
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noufalibrahim 1 hour ago
I'm not so sure of that.

A friend of mine automated the lead generation and marketing function of his tiny startup using OpenClaw and set of skills he wrote for it. It would find potential leads (from a list of sources), contact them, score them and keep the owner informed via. Slack about what's going on. They actually closed a few deals following up on leads generated by their bots.

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beedle_mcdeedle 1 hour ago
It’s nice that they closed deals but pretty soon this kind of bot spam is going to drown everything out IMO
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ChadMoran 1 hour ago
One success case doesn't prove the comment you responded to isn't true.
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pythonaut_16 33 minutes ago
It literally does though? GP said they'd never seen anyone achieve anything interesting.

The person you're replying to said they know someone who closed a few deals as a result of their OpenClaw. How is that not interesting?

It doesn't prove that it's globally useful, well implemented, or even worth the cost/effort. But it is something interesting.

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paulcole 2 hours ago
My Mac Mini took so long to arrive that I never messed with OpenClaw/Hermes and just went straight to Claude CoWork w/ Dispatch from my phone. One of the biggest blessings in disguise I can remember.

I read /r/openclaw for ideas on automations and 95% of the content is complaints or people having it do things that just don't need to be done.

As a side question for anyone reading this, what are the best agentic AI subreddits for people who are actually using it for work and not just personal dashboards?

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