Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for?

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Post by bmau5 » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for?

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Post by logos_vessel » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 11:16 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for?

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Post by theflyestpilot » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 12:14 AM UTC

pretending that it's useful

Re: Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for?

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Post by flafferay » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 12:20 AM UTC

theflyestpilot wrote: post #3

pretending that it's useful

I’m sure someone out there is making use out of it, but I would agree with this satire - I have no idea what people are really doing with it other than cutting a few corners.

Re: Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for?

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Post by philipnee » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 4:14 AM UTC

theflyestpilot wrote: post #3

pretending that it's useful

i say this (OC) is early, but directionally right. we can see how people are enthusiastic about local ai infra and we can all understand the idea of democratizing compute. though it might never happen.

Re: Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for?

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Post by confdentweather » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 2:31 PM UTC

I'm using mine to monitor some services I have running, checking on homelab health and recently I got it to do some financial research for me. I've given it a rough picture of my finances without much too personal and it scours around finding areas to save money which has actually proved fruitful already!

Re: Ask HN: What are you using OpenClaw or agents for?

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Post by nimboity » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 4:09 PM UTC

um trying to use it since i am broke and getting models are really hard for free