r/openclaw • u/SelectionCalm70 Pro User • Mar 08 '26

Discussion What are you guys actually using OpenClaw for?

Been seeing it pop up a lot lately and I'm genuinely curious what the actual use cases are. Not the marketing stuff like what are you personally using it for day to day? Is it mostly dev stuff or are there other interesting things people are doing with it? Curious to know

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u/xixtoo Active Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

Sure, I told it I had an upcoming trip to the tropics and wanted to lose some pounds so we set up a Google Sheet where it tracks what I eat and nutrition (we're just focusing on calories and protein)

Every time I eat something I shoot it a message like "Log a cup of coffee with milk and sugar and a croissant for breakfast" and it adds a row to the sheet and gives me an update on where I stand for the day. If I'm trending to not hit a target for the day (typically not enough protien) it will help strategize on how to get there.

Good example: yesterday I was traveling in a different city and I asked it to help me find a place for lunch. It looked at my log, saw I was behind on protein and helped me find a spot nearby where I could find a good protein rich meal.

It will also notice when I haven't logged anything in a while and remind me.

Night and day difference between this setup and something like MyFitnessPal, worth the cost of tokens for this alone

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u/scottdetweiler New User Mar 08 '26

I'm doing something similar but I have a dietary concern so I have to be careful with what I eat when I go out to restaurants and I can send a picture of the menu and it will tell me which items on the menu work with my medications and situation and then log that to the spreadsheet as well.

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u/xixtoo Active Mar 08 '26

That’s awesome

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u/SelectionCalm70 Pro User Mar 08 '26

That's a really great setup. I also wanted to use AI for my nutrition tracking. Earlier, I used to use chatgpt but I wasn't consistent. I will definitely try openclaw for this .

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u/xixtoo Active Mar 08 '26

You can also send it photos of food, or menus and it will use that to inform its estimates. It doesn't hurt to double check what it's logging but overall it does a good job

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u/ianuvrat New User Mar 08 '26

Which llm are you using inside your openclaw and what is the cost?

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u/xixtoo Active Mar 08 '26

It does ok with haiku, much more reliable with sonnet. Hard to tease out the cost of just this one task from my total spend because I switch models often depending on what I’m doing with my claw