Host personal agents in sandboxes for cents a month
A bootstrapped YC founder explains how his sandbox service runs personal Claude Code and OpenClaw agents for about $0.05-$0.10 per free user a month.
OpenClaw use cases
Real things people did with OpenClaw, sourced and with recipes.
Use cases
Have your agent phone a restaurant and book only if your must-haves are met
A user’s OpenClaw agent called restaurants in Dubai with a strict brief and declined to book when a must-have was missing.
Have your agent write scripts for cron jobs instead of calling the LLM each time
An OpenClaw user says his biggest early mistake was running cron jobs through the LLM; scripts are faster and cheaper.
Build an interactive physics explorer with your agent
A builder made a free, open-source gravity, orbits and time-dilation explorer with his OpenClaw agent and GPT-6 Astra.
Investigate production incidents with a purpose-built SRE agent
A SaaS SRE team that struggled with general agents in incident response built its own Rust agent.
Let your agent buy a domain, behind a human approval step
A builder’s OpenClaw agent bought a domain and started building the product; he approved the purchase through an approval tool he built.
Give your agent access to Apple Calendar, Reminders, Contacts and Mail
A developer built a CLI, MCP and plugins so his OpenClaw agent, Codex and Claude can use Apple’s personal apps.
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