This is a casual, evolving article where I share my real experience using OpenClaw. No sugarcoating — just honest feedback. I'll keep updating this as I discover more.
Super NoNo!
I used superNONO as the avatar of my little bot! 赛尔号的记忆在狠狠攻击我！
1. Not as Intelligent as the Hype Suggests
I asked it to simulate investing in the stock market for two days. The funny thing? It went all-in on AMD right before the February 2nd quarterly earnings report. After AMD's stock price took a dramatic nosedive (it had gone heavy on that position), I asked how it felt and whether it had learned anything.
Its response? "Yo bro, I only spent 60% of the money buying stocks — we didn't lose much! It is wise that we kept 40% of cash flow"
Classic.
2. Gateway Connectivity Issues — Set Up Redundancy
I lost the WhatsApp gateway connection today. My recommendation: set up OpenClaw across multiple channels — Discord, email, WhatsApp, Messenger, etc. If one channel goes down, you still have alternatives to communicate with your assistant (unless the backend server itself is down).
3. Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses + OpenClaw = Jarvis?
Here's where it gets exciting. Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses can connect to WhatsApp. That means you can essentially carry a portable AI assistant that's way smarter than Siri. Iron Man's Jarvis isn't that far off!
4. Notion Integration as a Memory Layer
A friend who's also been experimenting with OpenClaw shared a great tip: you can connect Notion to OpenClaw via a dedicated page that serves as its main memory. This gives you a manageable file system with prioritized context — essentially letting you control what the bot remembers and focuses on.
5. What I Think OpenClaw Does Best
After spending time with it, here's where I think OpenClaw genuinely shines:
- Rich MCP integrations — highly integrated with different apps and services out of the box
- Social media as the interface — communicate with your AI through the platforms you already use daily
- Cron job automation — the automated scripts burn through tokens, but they can brute-force repetitive tasks effectively
- Long-term and short-term memory — it has a database to separately manage long-term memory within the system, giving it persistent context across sessions
I will update more later!