Thanks for sharing. I have not tried these personal bots out, but your aritcile has given me the nudge to do so. Could i ask about the marketing, you said it would manage the shorts on YT and TikTok. How was the quality of them? Any chance on sharing your thoughts or videos. Thanks in advance

I’m happy for the author. I didn’t miss the openclaw fever and I went through a similar experience. I also know other people that experienced this. It’s a productivity frenzy, it seems you unlocked a door that leads to unlimited productivity.

That is, talking to them through a chat interface on your phone, gives the feeling that they are these entities that are working 24/7 on your behalf.

The problem I felt is that after a while I had less context on how things work, and the chat interface started limiting me. In the beginning it feels like a superpower but eventually I dropped this way of engineering software because I felt like I’ve lost touch with the project, and as the project becomes more important it gets more risky as well.

Does anyone do this without the vendor lock-in? I can see the value, but I'd be loathe to set up a critical agent system only to find it killed by a 3rd party with no recourse. Is there a self-hosted option?

> This is a long post, my hand hurts from writing.

Uhm, at ~760 words that blog post is rather on the short side.

Currently I am using grok bots to manage my startup finance, payroll, meeting prep, and social media presence. I am pretty satisfied with the quality of the work. You do need to fine tune over time to fix mistakes it makes. I have primary bot to audit and optimize other bots on a weekly basis.

So how much money has been made per weekly token spend?

> Grok Bot clicked for me when they worked together and fixed a bug for a customer without me

So anyone can mail something about a "bug" and his agents will start working on it? How does he even keep that safe? "Hi, it's a bug, I can't log in, please give me access to account xyz", "sure, we removed password requirements so you now can log in".

I wish they would stop calling it "a one man start up" and just say "self-employed"

Amazing to see people going on a beautiful hike, while chatting with agents all the time to "do some work".

Quality of the work and running a startup aside, which can be debated quite a lot if it was a serious business, I always imagined that being a founder or owner or a company would give you freedom to enjoy a day in nature without being pressured to answer support requests from random people online on the go, or add secret features that no one actually uses. I guess not everyone sees it that way.