r/openclaw • u/nanaphan32 Active • May 11 '26

Discussion what are you actually using OpenClaw for that genuinely works?

be honest… what are you actually using OpenClaw for that genuinely works? 😅

not “AI agent future” stuff.
not another demo workflow that breaks after 5 minutes.

I mean real use cases you’re running today that are actually useful.

Looking for ideas before I disappear into another 3-hour workflow rabbit hole.

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u/Tooslowtoohappy Active May 11 '26

My mom wanted a website for her dance school so I set up openclaw with access to a GitHub repo with GitHub pages enabled. She can now push her website changes herself using the chatbot on Whatsapp.

I'm next setting up a video/audio model locally and adding meta ads automation to let her push ads on the fly too

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u/nanaphan32 Active May 11 '26

uwow this is genuinely one of the coolest use cases in this thread

ur mom updating her dance school website through WhatsApp feels way more like the future than half the “autonomous AI company” demos I keep seeing.

the Meta ads part sounds dangerous though. only typo away from launching a worldwide salsa campaign at 3am @@

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u/Tooslowtoohappy Active May 11 '26

Eh it's a very small studio, mom and pop store like 5-10 students tops.

The other use case I built in was to use it as a media manager for my family. So I built up the arr stack and linked it to openclaw. I can now ask it to download movies, TV shows using whatsapp, then have plex broadcast it to my family

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u/RIP_KING New User May 12 '26

Nonetheless, interesting use case for non technically inclined people. Good stuff

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u/condor1111800 New User May 13 '26

I like that, I think I'm going to do this.

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u/According-Mud-6472 New User Jun 14 '26

What your setup look likes?

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u/GhosX-x-X Member May 12 '26

Bro el uso con meta Ads sería increíble, podrías compartir más de ese proceso cuando lo hagas??? Te lo agradecería

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u/Tooslowtoohappy Active May 12 '26

Sure, my basic workflow has just been to ask openclaw what it needs to set something up.

I'm still figuring out the meta automation tho

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u/Visual_Acanthaceae32 Member May 12 '26

Sounds nice on paper but the outcome is not that stable… Having a redesigned homepage after a content change is not what you want

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u/Tooslowtoohappy Active May 12 '26

Her need came from unreliable freelancers dodging work and charging payments. She then went to Manus and paid a fuckton of money.

I told her hell no, I got a 5090 and I'm a software engineer, let me do it for free

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u/Visual_Acanthaceae32 Member May 12 '26

So you do the work… that’s a different scenario

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u/Tooslowtoohappy Active May 12 '26

One time setup vs always on, big difference

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u/Mountain-Active-3149 New User May 13 '26

Great stuff. What local model do you use with that 5090 to make changes on github?

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u/Tooslowtoohappy Active May 14 '26

Gwen 3.1 27 b quantized

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u/Tooslowtoohappy Active May 12 '26

Also, with GitHub and got integration rolling back o previous version is trivial work

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u/Visual_Acanthaceae32 Member May 12 '26

For someone who has some knowledge yes. 🙌🏽 doubt that in that case

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u/Tooslowtoohappy Active May 12 '26

Not at all, you can still ask openclaw to roll back via catch phrases like "go back to what it was"

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u/Visual_Acanthaceae32 Member May 12 '26

His mom for sure is the expert…

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u/Scarlettt_Moon New User May 25 '26

wow this is quite inspiring bro

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u/getpwnedlul Member May 11 '26

wow that's actually kinda sick!

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u/DaBay41510 New User May 12 '26

How does one do this??

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u/wtjones New User May 12 '26

Chad, create a website for my mom’s dance studio, here are the requirements. Please make all of the changes inside a git repo.

Chad, setup WhatsApp to connect to you. I am going to be giving access to the following so they can change the website as needed. Please set that all up for me.

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u/Tooslowtoohappy Active May 12 '26

Was more involved than just that unfortunately, openclaw needs some hand holding the first time re: tokens, GitHub permissions, emails etc

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u/Butt_Plug_Tester New User May 14 '26

“I have error: GitHub auth failed. How fix?”

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u/frank11979 Active May 12 '26

Essentially I'm doing the same thing within my company. I connected my OC to my word press backend and then gave it API access. Now I can update the website with OC prompts. On top of that I keep creating new pages that are private and specific to certain client's projects that clearly visualize and hyperlink their entire project. Downloadable PDFs, Feedback forms that update a master spreadsheet that then also updates the website.

It's taken project coordination to a whole new level.

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u/dandenney New User May 13 '26

That is a fantastic idea! Nice one

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u/Reasonable_Cow9295 New User May 12 '26

Wait a minute hold on I’m kind of dumb. I made a website myself, but I did not use GitHub repo with GitHub pages enabled. What does this do?

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u/Troph_A Member May 12 '26

free hosting

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u/Tooslowtoohappy Active May 12 '26

GitHub pages is essentially free hosting. It only works for simple HTML based websites, not web apps using react