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How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248

How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248

This Week in Startups · Feb 12, 2026

Founders demo how OpenClaw's agentic AI automates workflows, integrates with hardware, and slashes startup costs, leading to on-air investments.

AI Agents Can Autonomously Troubleshoot Bugs from Customer Email to Codebase

An AI agent monitors a support inbox, identifies a bug report, cross-references it with the GitHub codebase to find the issue, suggests probable causes, and then passes the task to another AI to write the fix. This automates the entire debugging lifecycle.

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How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248

This Week in Startups·8 days ago

AI's Lower Costs Will Spawn More Niche Apps, Not Consolidate Markets

Contrary to the belief that AI will kill most apps, lower development costs will make it profitable to build and maintain software for smaller, niche audiences. This affordability will likely lead to an explosion of specialized apps rather than market consolidation.

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How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248

This Week in Startups·8 days ago

AI Agents Are Shifting from Reactive Tools to Proactive Content Strategists

A founder set up an AI agent on a cron job to proactively scan the web twice daily for relevant industry news. The agent surfaces interesting studies and, upon request, immediately drafts a blog post, turning a passive tool into an active, automated content engine.

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How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248

This Week in Startups·8 days ago

Implement a Simple Human-in-the-Loop Security Protocol for Personal AI Agents

To prevent malicious attacks, a founder configured his AI agent to require manual approval via Telegram before executing any task requested by an external party. This simple human-in-the-loop system acts as a crucial security backstop for agents with access to sensitive data and platforms.

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How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248

This Week in Startups·8 days ago

Technical Friction in Open-Source AI Creates Immediate Hosting Business Opportunities

An engineer's struggle to run OpenClaw on cheap cloud VMs due to high RAM needs led him to build a solution for friends. This quickly validated the need for an affordable, managed hosting service, which he turned into a startup (Agent37.com) almost immediately.

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How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248

This Week in Startups·8 days ago

Founders Can Use AI Agents as Digital Chiefs of Staff for Complex Diligence Tasks

A founder used an AI agent to handle a multi-step due diligence request. The agent accessed the PostHog analytics platform, pulled a list of active users, formatted it into a Google Sheet, and then emailed selected users to ask if they'll serve as references, completing the task in minutes.

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How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248

This Week in Startups·8 days ago

Venture Capitalist Jason Calacanis Invests $250k Live On-Air in Two AI Founders

In a demonstration of high-conviction, rapid investing, host Jason Calacanis offered two separate guest founders $125,000 each to join his LAUNCH accelerator. The investment decisions were made live on the podcast based on their impressive OpenClaw projects and demonstrated initiative.

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How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248

This Week in Startups·8 days ago

Use a Two-Layer AI System for Real-World Agentic Tasks via Smart Glasses

A developer combined Meta Ray-Ban glasses with a two-layer AI system. The first layer, Google's Gemini Live, handles real-time perception (vision and voice). It then delegates specific tasks to a second layer, OpenClaw, for execution and browser automation. This architecture effectively separates perception from action.

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How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248

This Week in Startups·8 days ago