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Re:Migrate from OpenClaw by noufalibrahim on Thursday June 18, 2026 @02:29PM (#48589472)
I'm not so sure of that.

A friend of mine automated the lead generation and marketing function of his tiny startup using OpenClaw and set of skills he wrote for it. It would find potential leads (from a list of sources), contact them, score them and keep the owner informed via. Slack about what's going on. They actually closed a few deals following up on leads generated by their bots.

Re:Migrate from OpenClaw by beedle_mcdeedle on Thursday June 18, 2026 @02:41PM (#48589632)
It’s nice that they closed deals but pretty soon this kind of bot spam is going to drown everything out IMO
Re:Migrate from OpenClaw by ChadMoran on Thursday June 18, 2026 @02:47PM (#48589719)
One success case doesn't prove the comment you responded to isn't true.
Re:Migrate from OpenClaw by pythonaut_16 on Thursday June 18, 2026 @03:23PM (#48590246)
It literally does though? GP said they'd never seen anyone achieve anything interesting.

The person you're replying to said they know someone who closed a few deals as a result of their OpenClaw. How is that not interesting?

It doesn't prove that it's globally useful, well implemented, or even worth the cost/effort. But it is something interesting.

Re:Migrate from OpenClaw by dostick on Thursday June 18, 2026 @04:28PM (#48591082)
But did you notice that all such success stories is someone automated marketing or generation of slop content?
Re:Migrate from OpenClaw by noufalibrahim on Friday June 19, 2026 @01:31AM (#48595104)
Yes. That is an insight but then again, most marketing emails were templatised slop1.0 from mailchimp and other sites. This just makes it slicker. So, I'm not sure.
Re:Migrate from OpenClaw by ChadMoran on Thursday June 18, 2026 @07:21PM (#48592923)
You know what, you're right. Somehow between reading the parent comment and this one, I forgot the details of it. My mistake.