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by noufalibrahim 2 days 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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It’s nice that they closed deals but pretty soon this kind of bot spam is going to drown everything out IMO
One success case doesn't prove the comment you responded to isn't true.
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.

You know what, you're right. Somehow between reading the parent comment and this one, I forgot the details of it. My mistake.
But did you notice that all such success stories is someone automated marketing or generation of slop content?
Yes. That is an insight but then again, most marketing emails were templatised slop1.0 from mailchimp and other sites. This just makes it slicker. So, I'm not sure.