OpenClaw
15 hours back, $500 stack dropped
A business owner posted his setup on Hacker News. He had been paying about 500 dollars a month for separate tools: a CRM, a social media scheduler, and customer support software. He built one custom agent on OpenClaw and runs it around the clock on a Mac Mini. The agent watches and replies to Instagram direct messages, drafts and posts content across platforms, tracks competitors and market trends, and writes a daily business report. It reviews its own work each week. He also published 24 reusable skills for the setup.
How it wentTwo weeks in, he reports about 15 hours a week saved on repetitive tasks, and customer response times down from hours to minutes. He states the agent still over-engineers tasks, and he is still training it to stop. The business is unnamed in the post, and the trial is only two weeks long.
Try it · based on the source's workflow
Run on my [computer] around the clock. Monitor [inbox or DM channel] and draft replies to routine messages; show me each draft before sending. Draft [number] content posts a week from [topics] and queue them for my approval. Track [competitors or topics] and write me a short daily report: messages handled, posts queued, and anything that needs my decision. Evaluate your own week every [day] and list what you got wrong.
A starting template based on the workflow the source describes. Review it before you use it; you are responsible for what it does.
15 hours back, $500 stack dropped — from The SmallOffice Brief, a daily brief of real AI cases for small businesses: https://smalloffice.space/case-15-hours-back-500-stack-dropped