What a cloud agent can do
Real things people do with AI agents that have their own always-on computer.
real posts from people who run OpenClaw, the open-source agent Everpod hoststheir words, their setups
Francesco Di Lorenzo@frankdilo · Feb 17“🦀 I’ve been using @OpenClaw daily for weeks now. Here’s what I actually do with it.
📬 Morning brief
Every day at 6am, it sends me weather + a digest of newsletters from my RSS reader (Feedbin). Summarizes Matt Levine’s Money Stuff so I get the key points in 2 min. Also includes my calendar events.
📅 Time blocking
‘Help me time block today. Max 8h work, I have 3 meetings.’
It checks all my calendars, asks about priorities, proposes a schedule, and creates the events. Took 5 mins this morning…”
Francesco Di Lorenzo@frankdilo · Feb 17“🦀 I’ve been using @OpenClaw daily for weeks now. Here’s what I actually do with it.
📬 Morning brief
Every day at 6am, it sends me weather + a digest of newsletters from my RSS reader (Feedbin). Summarizes Matt Levine’s Money Stuff so I get the key points in 2 min. Also includes my calendar events.
📅 Time blocking
‘Help me time block today. Max 8h work, I have 3 meetings.’
It checks all my calendars, asks about priorities, proposes a schedule, and creates the events. Took 5 mins this morning…”It has its own computer. It uses it.
One day on Otto’s computer ● awake
06:12found the standing desk at €249, under your limit✓
07:00your briefing, sent✓
09:40inbox filed: 42 away, 2 flagged for you✓
13:05reminder set: Thursday 14:00, the deposit✓
23:30your website comparison, researched and written✓
One day · five jobs · none of them yours
Its own browser, files and calendar, running around the clock. You just read the results.
Adam Argyle@argyleink · Jul 14“…2nd brain quizzes me daily about the things I tend to forget. Self heals. Creates while I sleep.”
Vadim@VadimStrizheus · Feb 5“It’s 2am. This is what I set up with OpenClaw in 2 hours: … Morning brief at 8am (weather, trending content, tasks) … Nightly build session at 11pm (it codes while I sleep) … I now have an AI employee that works 24/7.”Work with it like a colleague.
Could you pull together a comparison of those three website builders I mentioned?21:48
Done. Read it over coffee. Short version: the second one wins on price, the third on support.website-builders-compared.pdfmade overnight on Otto’s computer · 6 pages07:24
Real files, sent to your chat: researched, written and saved on its own computer
Zara Zhang@zarazhangrui · Apr 2“I’m replacing my to-do list with ‘braindumping to-dos to OpenClaw’… Not only will it record those tasks, but it will actually DO those tasks. Every morning it sends me a report of what tasks are already done”
Avi Press@avi_press · Jul 14“…It’s great at wrangling lots of different platforms and data sources for things like writing investor updates. It has automated tasks at my company that I used to have people doing…”Give it a job. It keeps it.
Every Friday at 5, gather the week’s receipts into one email.16:02
Done. Fridays at 17:00, right here.16:02
what Otto keeps
every morning 07:00your briefing, in your chat
fridays 17:00the week’s receipts, gathered
alwaysthe standing desk listing. It speaks up when it drops.
Set by just asking. Change it the same way.
Peter Steinberger@steipete · Mar 15 · creator of OpenClaw“My openclaw twitter mention block cron job is working unreasonably well… Runs every 5 min and cleans up my mentions - I actually see useful replies now and Twitter got pleasant again!”
Jökull Solberg@jokull · Jul 14“It gives me a morning digest from calendar and lots of different sources, optimized over time, that I love.”The main uses, from hundreds of real posts.
We read hundreds of posts like these and summarized what people actually use their agents for.
Remembers everything
- ✓Emails, notes, voice memos: ask about any of it, months later
- ✓Nothing resets between conversations
What did the plumber quote for the boiler back in March?€1,850, from his March 12 email. Want me to ask if it still stands?
Briefs you every morning
- ✓Calendar, inbox, weather and bills in one message
- ✓Tuned to you: three lines, or the full read
Every morning at 7: my calendar, anything that needs me, and the weather for the school run.Done. First one arrives tomorrow, 07:00.
Clears the backlog
- ✓A bursting inbox sorted while you sleep
- ✓The comparison researched and written overnight
Go through my inbox tonight. File the noise, flag anything with money in it.Sorted. Three need you: two invoices, one deadline.
Watches and speaks up
- ✓A price, a listing, a webpage, an inbox
- ✓It messages first when something changes
That standing desk. Tell me if it drops under €250.It just dropped to €249. Want the link?
Runs the household
- ✓Family planning and school updates in the family chat
- ✓One agent the whole family talks to
Keep the school calendar in the family chat, and remind us the night before anything needs packing.On it. Tonight: swim kit for tomorrow.
Pulls its weight at work
- ✓Sits in the team channel, answers with company context
- ✓Keeps an eye on the queue and files what can wait
Draft the investor update from this month’s numbers.Draft is in your inbox: revenue, churn, and the two wins.
real people, real agents, their words
Jon Hernandez@JonhernandezIA · Jul 14“Absolutely daily driver, I talk more to it than to my wife”
Max Winderbaum@maxmax · Jul 14“Still using mine for a quick ‘query my personal brain’. Emails, texts, conversation recordings, everything is in there and read-only. Helps me remember all kinds of stuff I never would have before”
Akshay Dodeja@dodeja · Jul 15“Openclaw. It compounds. It’s deeply integrated into my personal and work workflows… It is aware what happens at work and across different teams.”
Vilhelm von Ehrenheim@while · Jul 14“…a bot the family is still using for day to day planning and keeping track of updates from the kids school.”
Bill D’Alessandro@BillDA · Feb 3“The recordings of my OpenClaw AI bot calling local businesses are WILD (and pretty funny)”
Johann Sathianathen@johann_sath · Feb 21“my openclaw after 3 weeks: …BRAIN.md — live working memory …HEARTBEAT.md — autonomous thinking loop …PLAYBOOK.md — decision frameworks …this is the difference between a chatbot & an AI employee. none of this is built in. i added every file. your setup is your moat.”Every card links to the original post.
This is why it gets its own computer.
The overnight work, the standing jobs, the watching, the remembering: almost none of it happens while anyone is at a keyboard. An agent can only live like that on a computer that never shuts.
A pod is that computer. Always on, backed up, private to you, and a permanent home: its memory, files and personality stay through every update.
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