I planned a small OpenClaw meetup for 12 people max.
Then it sold out. Then 5-6 people texted me the day of asking to join.
We ended up with 20 people crammed in the room.
I finished my slides 6 minutes before presenting.
Thanks to everyone who joined yesterday.
2024: Prompt engineering.
2025: Agentic workflows.
2026: Actually making money.
The "AI gold rush" is over. We're in the "useful software" era now.
P.S. Another Pro move? Getting your agents off your laptop. If your AI "employee" goes to sleep when you close your MacBook, you don't have a system. I built ClawPlane.com to give founders one-click, 24/7 hosting. It’s the easiest way to keep your agents grinding while you’re offline.
The Reality Check:
OpenClaw isn't just a "better LLM." It’s an operating system for the agentic age.
The people who win this year won't be the best "prompters". They’ll be the best System Architects.
Stop asking it to talk. Start asking it to work.
Tell it: "Spawn 5 sub-agents to research each competitor in parallel." You get 5x the speed and 10x the focus. This is how you run a "Swarm" without losing your mind.
3. The Scaling Divide
• Noob: Tries to manage one massive, 20-minute-long conversation until the context window breaks.
• Pro: Uses Sub-Agents.
The Hack: Delegation.
If a task is complex (e.g., "Research these 5 competitors and write a strategy"), don't make the main agent do it.
Tell OpenClaw: "Present this in the Canvas." You can see the live preview, iterate in real-time, and have the agent save the final version directly to your repo. It’s not "coding assistance" - it's autonomous development.
2. The Execution Divide
• Noob: Watches the agent type code and then copies/pastes it into an editor manually.
• Pro: Gives the agent permission to use the exec and write tools.
The Hack: The "Canvas" Workflow.
If you’re building a UI, don't just look at code.
The Hack: Use Project Context. Don't re-explain who you are every time. Keep a USER[dot]md and SOUL[dot]md file in your workspace. A Pro agent already knows your goals, your tone, and your boundaries before you even send the first message.
1. The Prompting Divide
• Noob: "Write me a 500-word blog post about AI."
• Pro: "Read my last 10 tweets to learn my voice, search the web for the latest news on [Topic], and then use the edit tool to update BLOG[dot]md in my workspace."
Power users treat OpenClaw like a Chief of Staff.
After building in this ecosystem daily, here is the breakdown of the Noob vs Pro divide.
And 3 hacks to level up your setup:
Stop treating OpenClaw like a search engine. Start treating it like your first $100k/year employee. If you're using it like a "faster ChatGPT," you're stuck in the Noob tier. Most people treat AI like a vending machine: Put a prompt in, get a result out.
Stop treating OpenClaw like a search engine.
Start treating it like your first $100k/year employee.
If you're using it like a "faster ChatGPT," you're stuck in the Noob tier.
Most people treat AI like a vending machine: Put a prompt in, get a result out.
Spent today working on strategy and setting goals for March.
Spent today working on strategy and setting goals for March.
I just shipped API access to Posthero.
Now you can publish and schedule content programmatically.
It's cool for:
→ Developers who want to automate their content workflow
→ AI agents that need to post at scale
→ OpenClaw agents building autonomous system
Quick video about it👇
Posthero API lets you publish to all major social platforms for just $9/mo.
👉 posthero.ai
TikTok drafts just landed in the Posthero API. You can now send posts directly to TikTok as drafts and publish them manually in the TikTok app. Just set postMode: "draft" in the create post call.
TikTok drafts just landed in the Posthero API.
You can now send posts directly to TikTok as drafts and publish them manually in the TikTok app.
Just set postMode: "draft" in the create post call.
Posthero.ai API lets you publish to all major social platforms for just $9/mo.
Just added TikTok carousel support to the PostHero API. Simply send image URLs in the request to create a post. Looks like carousels are on fire on TikTok right now.
Just added TikTok carousel support to the PostHero API.
Simply send image URLs in the request to create a post.
Looks like carousels are on fire on TikTok right now.
Spent the weekend fixing bugs in Posthero and shipping ClawPlane features. Not glamorous. No viral launch. Just building. Small progress > no progress.
Spent the weekend fixing bugs in Posthero and shipping ClawPlane features.
Not glamorous. No viral launch.
Just building.
Small progress > no progress.
Built Posthero API after my OpenClaw agent kept asking 'how do I post this to LinkedIn?' $9/mo. Made for agentic workflows. Let your AI actually publish, not just draft. posthero.ai
Built Posthero API after my OpenClaw agent kept asking 'how do I post this to LinkedIn?'
$9/mo. Made for agentic workflows.
Let your AI actually publish, not just draft.
posthero.ai
Launched Posthero API today. Also fixed a bug that's been bothering me. Not glamorous. Just building.
Launched Posthero API today. Also fixed a bug that's been bothering me.
Not glamorous. Just building.
Plan for today:
⭕️ Add a public API to Posthero
⭕️ Fix a login bug for a user
⭕️ Learn more about OpenClaw security
My current OpenClaw team:
- Tony, CTO
- Jarvis, CMO
- Rachel, Researcher & draft article writer
What’s your team look like?
The AI agent acquisition race:
OpenAI → acquired OpenClaw
Meta → acquired Manus
Anthropic → ?
Google → ?
What do you think?
just realized i messed up the pricing math in ClawPlane.
users pay $10.
they're getting $30 worth of tokens.
i've been eating 3x the cost from my own pocket.
honestly? kinda glad i caught it before going viral.
imagine waking up to 1000 users and -$20k in my account lol
Btw, if you want to try OpenClaw without the technical hassle, here’s a 1-click install and hosting: clawplane.com
3. added proof upfront. turns out people want numbers before features.
sometimes you're too close to your own product. fresh eyes help.
it actually gave me very good 6 recommendations on how to improve posthero.ai.
Damn, it's really good.
Just spent an hour analyzing our landing page with @openclaw. it roasted us. here's what Jarvis said: 1. our best feature (voice notes) was buried as #6. moved it to #2. 2. hero said 'all-in-one social media management' — aka every competitor. rewrote it.
Just spent an hour analyzing our landing page with @openclaw.
it roasted us. here's what Jarvis said:
1. our best feature (voice notes) was buried as #6. moved it to #2.
2. hero said 'all-in-one social media management' — aka every competitor. rewrote it.
DigitalOcean added 1-click @openclaw deploys.
YC funded a clawplane.com alternative.
Seems that self-hosted AI is eating SaaS.
People want AI that builds custom software for them... not subscriptions to 30+ tools.
Why pay $200/mo across Notion, CRM, Buffer when an agent can wire it all together?
6 AM: "I'm going to crush it today"
9 AM: Debugging a bug that shouldn't exist
12 PM: Customer support
3 PM: Still debugging
6 PM: Finally fixed it
7 PM: Found 2 new bugs
This is the founder life nobody shows you.
And honestly? I wouldn't trade it.
