Since the hype people split into 2 groups as usual, some attacking, others just riding the wave… but most posts seem to be zero use-case. Even the use-case repos “AWESOME openclaw usecases” are not real use-cases that define a problem and solve it using openclaw. The idea of cron jobs and heartbeats for agents is actually pretty smart, and it’s simple… an agent that runs on a schedule while you’re AFK. that’s it. could be done with basic scripting. But the power is real, the level of customization of what you can have running every few minutes in the background, gathering info, scraping, reminding… the possibilities stack up fast. I tried it for 3 use cases over a month: 1- Reddit listening: collects trends and conversations i care about, analyzes rising topics and sparks worth acting on, with real numbers - (15 min schedule) (4 jobs) 2- Daily tracker: keeps me from procrastinating and doing low priority things, runs my daily checklist morning and night - (30 min schedule) (2 jobs) 3- Linkedin enrichment: my favourite! finds people talking about claude code and founders building interesting things to connect with, genuinely game changing for finding the right people - (15 min schedule) (2 jobs) All three were using my own custom skills and scripts that i built specifically for my use case. When it comes to openclaw technically, it’s honestly a mess… very expensive, burns tokens for no reason, major bugs and issues. the massive codebase +600k lines is mostly integration bloat and noise wrapped around what’s really just ~4k loc. At this point it’s inefficient, if you can use claude code you have zero reasons to use something like openclaw I built my own solution as a plugin under claude code’s ecosystem - claude code is way smarter, cost efficient, and you’re already on max subscription. it’s powerful, gets better day by day, and now with the memory system and remote control it’s actually heading in the same direction as openclaw anyway… so save yourself the headache, build your own custom solution. I used -p , —resume and CLAUDE.md with some prompt files, simple telegram bridge and it’s more powerful than openclaw. will share my version in comments. submitted by /u/MrCheeta
Originally posted by u/MrCheeta on r/ClaudeCode
You must log in or # to comment.