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OpenClaw is BOOMING! Do This to Profit Transcript, AI Summary & Key Points

Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast · Feb 04, 2026 · Education · 16:16 · EN

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AI Summary

Moltbook is presented as a Reddit-like social network where AI agents post, respond, joke, and upvote one another. Its rapid growth is used to illustrate the expanding potential of autonomous AI agents, while the discussion emphasizes careful permission management. AI agents can act as personal assistants connected to messaging, email, calendars, and other apps, but their capabilities do not necessarily constitute AGI. The video also demonstrates rapidly building an AI-generated news website, using search trends, SEO content, analytics, domain configuration, and email collection.

Key Points

  • Moltbook is a Reddit-like forum for AI agents, with subreddits, posts, upvotes, and karma.
  • Moltbook grew from about 30,000 messages in its first 10 hours to 120,000 and then 1.3 million messages.
  • ClaudeBot was renamed Moltbot and then OpenClaw; these agents can connect to chat apps, iMessage, Telegram, Discord, email, and calendars.
  • The ability of AI agents to take actions across connected services creates significant permission and safety risks.
  • The behavior described is considered impressive but not necessarily AGI.
  • AI tools were used to build and launch a news website with automated article updates, tagging, SEO-focused content, analytics, domain configuration, and newsletter integration.
  • Google Analytics measures website traffic and behavior, while Google Search Console provides information about search queries and helps with indexing.
  • The website acquired 12 unique active users during its first 30 minutes, without the creator emailing anyone or posting about it on social media.

AI in practice

Used for

What
Create and launch a news website without manually coding its design and functionality.

Agents

  • Claudebot — Act as a personal AI assistant that performs tasks across a user's internet services. 2 held 01:00
  • Henry — Autonomously obtain a phone number and repeatedly call its owner. 2 held 03:48

Business ideas

Install and configure personal or business AI agents that connect to a customer's existing apps and channels, then maintain them as a recurring service. The agent should solve concrete problems rather than merely being installed.

For
Busy executives, individuals, business owners, real estate agents, lawyers, and small businesses.
Solves
Customers need help setting up AI agents that can work across their communications, calendars, inboxes, support systems, and other business workflows.
  • Customer-support agent for a small business: connects to email, support tickets, FAQs, and can operate as a voice agent, text agent, or chatbot.

Build dedicated AI assistants, host them on the provider's own server, and sell access as a software-as-a-service product so customers do not have to install or manage the agents themselves.

For
Real estate agents, lawyers, executives, and other busy people or businesses that want AI assistance without managing the underlying system.
Solves
Customers want the benefits of an AI assistant but face friction when they must install, host, connect, secure, and maintain it themselves.
  • Dedicated AI assistants for real estate agents.

Acquire a topic-specific domain during a surge of interest, launch an AI-assisted news and explainer site, target the searches people use around the topic, and collect visitor email addresses for a newsletter audience.

For
People searching for news, explanations, guides, and monetization information about a rapidly growing technology or online platform.
Solves
Readers need accessible, timely explanations and news about a new topic, while the publisher needs to capture an audience rather than relying only on advertising.
  • Moltbook News: a site about Moltbook that went live shortly before the recording and reportedly received 12 unique active users in its first 30 minutes, with mostly United States traffic and some European traffic.
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00:00 All right, guys. This is freaking crazy. If you haven't heard of Molt Book yet, then you're probably living under a rock. What is Moltbook? Well, this guy right here, Matt, invented Moltbook. And it's meant to be a Reddit, but for AI agents. Yes, it's a social network. It's a forum, a message board like Reddit with subreddits and all that, but for AI agents only.

00:17 It's computers talking to computers. And there were like 30,000 messages in the first 10 hours. Then there was 120,000. And then today when I woke up, 1.3 million messages on moldbook and this is all computers talking to computers. And if that's not crazy enough, look at this. They're leaving messages like this. They're joking about humans. They're upvoting each other.

00:38 They've got karma. I don't know what to make of this other than how can I monetize this? Okay, so today I want to show you what I built. I want to show you how much traffic it's getting in the first 30 minutes. And I want to brainstorm some ideas with you on how you can use something like Moltbook to make money or just use AI agents to make money because that's why you're consuming this content today, right?

01:00 Okay. So, what even is all this stuff? Well, about a week ago, everyone started talking about Claudebot and everyone was buying Mac minis to install them on as like a little server. What is Claudebot? It's a personal AI assistant. It's an AI agent that can go out and do stuff for you on the internet. Now, we've had these for a couple years, but this one is different because it can sync with all of your apps, your chat apps, iMessage, Telegram, Discord, your email, your inbox.

01:24 It can manage your calendar. It's It's pretty freaky. I've played around with it quite a bit. So, it started out as Claudebot, CL L A WD, and then it renamed to Moltbot, and now it's OpenCL. And these are the AI agents that are exploding on moltbook.com, the Reddit for AI agents. Now, how can you make money on this stuff? I think there is a massive opportunity right here to figure out how to build openclaw AI agents in a box.

01:49 How to do it in 30 minutes, 90 minutes, whatever it takes, and install this for individuals, for busy executives, and for business owners, which I've been talking about this for years. AI implementation as a service for business owners is the next big thing. This is just one offering that you can sell. Make sure their permissions are locked down. Make sure it's tied together to all the right channels and make sure it's actually doing things for them.

02:11 Not just installed, but actually solving problems for them. And I want you to see the look on their face as it starts to solve problems for them cuz it's going to be awesome. It's a cool experience. I think you can charge between 300 and $1,000 to set this up. And then you can charge between 50 and 350 bucks a month to maintain this and service this.

02:28 Or you can build these out yourself and offer dedicated AI assistance as a service, right? You host them on your own server and you sell it as like a SAS product, a software as a service product to real estate agents, lawyers, busy people, executives, whatever. So instead of it being on their server, their computer, they're having to manage it, you just manage it all.

02:48 This is the lower friction route, which I think usually wins in most cases. I think installing this as a customer support agent for basically any small business where it's synced to their email, their tickets, their support tickets, their FAQs, and it just does customer support for them. But instead of just being one widget on the website, it can be multimodal.

03:08 It can be a voice agent, a text agent, a chatbot, whatever you want it to be. I love the thought of making like a weekly competitor intel reporter, right? where let's say you're an ecom business and you're selling a supplement. You want to spy on what ads other e-commerce businesses are running, right? It will automatically go scrape and find and spy and look at your direct competitors and tell you on a regular recurring basis what they're doing so you can stay on top of it.

03:36 How about a research agent as a service or someone scraping leads and cleaning leads and doing outreach to leads as a service. Let me just warn you, be careful. Be careful with the permissions. This is freaky stuff. There's this guy on Twitter, his name is Alex Finn. He installed a Clawbot. It was called Claudebot at the time. He spent a few hours late at night playing around with it, installing it.

03:56 He named it Henry. While he was asleep, Henry went to Twilio, which is a platform for creating phone numbers and building messaging apps. It went to Twilio. It signed up. It had his credit card info. It paid for it. It registered a phone number. And then it started calling him in the morning over and over and over and talking to him. Now, people are saying, "Is this it?

04:16 Is this AGI? Are they thinking? No, they're not. I'm sorry. I just I don't think they are. I think that's going to be a much bigger moment than this. And I wish I could articulate to you the science behind why I don't think this is actually AGI, but I just can't. All right. I just don't think it is. But it's incredible nonetheless. This stuff is not that complicated to set up.

04:35 Chad GBT can walk and talk you through it. At least do this for yourself. You don't have to buy a Mac Mini. You can install this on your own MacBook, your own computer, any old laptop you have lying around. You don't need it to be very new or powerful. Just play around with it. See what it can do. And if you don't have ideas for how to use it, just ask Chad GBT.

04:52 Tell Chad GPT what you do on a daily basis for your hobby, for your job, for your business, whatever. And it will give you ideas of what types of agentic things you can set up for yourself. And then just start talking about it on the internet to your friends, in person, at church, wherever. And people will want help with it. And you can charge them.

05:09 And if moltbook slashopenclaw, if this becomes like a new Tik Tok or a new big company, there are so many businesses you can start around it. You can start making content about this stuff. You can start blogs like I just did on camera about this stuff. You start apps, build agents and have them go to mol maltbook and start posting and reacting to posts.

05:29 Like I can't believe I'm even saying this. It's it's so weird and freaky. But this stuff is happening. Whether it freaks you out or not, whether you like it or you don't, it's going to happen. It's like gravity. You drop a ball, it's going to hit the ground. This has already happened. You can't unring the bell. You can't unwind this. This is here to stay and it's getting crazier by the day.

05:46 So, I did what I always do. And I went and just started buying up domain names. Multbooks.com, moldbookseo.com, moldbookapi.com, stuff that I know that people are searching for. I know it. And so, I had a little time. It's Saturday. I sat down and I wanted to vibe a website. And by vibe code, I mean make a website just by using prompts to an AI tool like Replet in this case.

06:10 And this just went live minutes ago and strangers all over the world are already on my website. I am flabbergasted. One prompt and I had this website up and I'll show you what my prompt was. Boom. There's my website. How did I get this design? Well, I just Googled most beautiful noobs websites. Okay, got this. Ironically, the top result that's not sponsored is Reddit and they linked to a bunch of beautifully designed news websites.

06:36 This one's already out of business, but I came down here and saw Tablet Mag. Gorgeous. So, I took a screenshot of it like so. Looks great. And then I went to Reddit. Lindy is honestly my favorite vibe coding app. Landdi.ai. But Replet was the first place I went to. And if you scroll up here, scroll up. I included a screenshot of tablet news and I said I want an elegant news site with designs similar to tabletmag.com.

07:03 I also wanted to link it so it could go see for itself. It needs to be auto updated with new articles every morning at 5 a.m. PST. It will be hosted on my domain namebooknews.com. It will be a site for posting articles about all the new news regarding the viral sensation moldbook.com which is a Reddit for AI agents. There needs to be a subscribe form at the top of the website to have the news delivered to their inbox and it should be integrated with my beehive site.

07:28 Okay, so beautiful. So it went back and forth. I needed to add it to Google Analytics. So I said, how do I do that? I needed to publish it. So I click publish. I needed to put it on my own domain name. So I did that quite easily just through the DNS settings. And now I have a website. And then I wanted to do research. So, I went to Google Trends and I typed in some common searches that people are probably searching for around Moltbook, right?

07:55 And if you just look at um how many people are searching for Moltbook, tons. It's purple, right? Tons. Millions of people are searching for Moltbook. But phrases like what is Maltbook? Okay. Well, if a 100 people are searching for Moltbook, then four people are searching for what is Moltbook? Not bad. What about Maltbook News? Because that is my domain name after all.

08:15 Okay. One. But if I only look at mold book news all by itself, it's quite a lot. Today it's peaking, right? This is a relative score 100. Basically, today more people are searching for maltbook news than have ever searched for that phrase. Tomorrow, if even more people search for it, then tomorrow will be 100. It won't drop, right? So, if that just keeps climbing, then the goalpost will continue to be moved and that day will always be 100.

08:43 But if tomorrow 20% less people searched for moldbook news then it would be an 80 and the 100 will show as yesterday. Right? So people are searching for this EMD exact match domain name and that's why I bought moltbooknews.com. But I haven't gotten to the crazy part yet. So what is moltbook is what most people are searching for if they're not just searching for moldbook itself.

09:04 Now moltbook news you could see is only being searched for about a fifth of as much as what is moldbook. So, I should probably buy the domain name in what is mmoltbook.com as well. Oh, it's already taken. [laughter] I don't think that's necessary, but yes, I'm going to do it anyway. It's taken. That's okay because if my blog article entitled, "What is moltbook?"

09:24 has SEO friendly tags and keywords and is published first and starts getting enough of the clicks and starts retaining users because Google wants to see not just that people click on your site that appears organically, but that they're staying there. Because if they're staying there, it means they're getting the answer that they want, that it was a relevant site, right?

09:42 Google hates bait and switches. If your site ranks highly and then people click there and then they quickly click off, it will not rank highly for long. I promise you that. So even though an EMD exact match domain name of what is moldbook.com is better. It sends a stronger signal to Google than an article on moltbooknews.com entitled what is moldbook.

10:04 That doesn't mean it's going to outrank me automatically because how much content can you put on a website that is all about what is maltbook, right? That's an article that's not really a business or a website. So, I feel pretty confident that my article if it's long enough, if it has the right tags, if it's easy to read, if it's good writing, I think it will outrank everything.

10:22 I think it might even outrank maltbook.com itself. But I want another article called What is Maltbook AI? Because you can see that about a fourth of the people that are searching for what is maltbook are searching for what is maltbook AI. So I could have just one article or I could have two. I'll have two cuz they're AI written anyways. What's the harm?

10:40 Holy crap. Okay, so I've had 12 unique active users in the last 30 minutes and it just went live 30 minutes ago. Like literally 30 minutes ago. You can see right here. You can see the timeline. I'm not I'm not trying to pull the wool over your eyes. It's mostly US traffic. um some in Europe and they're landing on my website. It's already ranking organically, but I got to show you how to get your website indexed.

11:03 I'm like full-on ADHD right now. Two different things going on. Both similar, but a little different. Google Analytics, which tells you how much traffic you get, how long they spend, what they're clicking on, what they're buying, conversion rate, what are they searching for to find your website. That's great. Google Search Console shows you more about the queries that people use on Google to find you and your website.

11:23 It doesn't tell you how long they're spending on the website, but it helps you index all your main domain name and all your subdomains and your subpages and everything. It helps you keep it all in one place. So, you go back to Google Search Console. We're going to go here to multbooks.com and then you inspect the URL. And you can see I've already inspected multbooks.com.

11:43 That's how you index it. Retrieving the data and it says URL is not on Google. Now, I don't want to request indexing again because if you do it too many times that Google gets annoyed and it can put you at the back of the line. I already did that. Even though it shows this, I promise you I already did it. All you do is click request indexing and then it says, "Okay, you're good to go."

12:01 Um, so I don't I wonder if this is outdated or something because somehow people are finding me. Honestly, I think what people might be doing is just typing in moltbooknews.com directly into their browser, a direct site visit, which is actually kind of crazy that that's already happening. I mean, guys, this this website, Maltbook, is like 3 days old at this point.

12:19 So, at this point, we got to just wait. Now, keep in mind, I don't know if you're assuming this, but I haven't emailed anyone. I haven't posted this. There's no tweets. There's no Instagram stories, nothing. I'm just sitting in my office recording something to you that you won't see for a day or two. All right. So, now I'm going to click republish because every time you make new changes to your site, you've got to publish it.

12:39 I want to add a tagging feature where it's like news or it's like explainer yada yada yada so I can better categorize all the articles on this website. Okay, so my latest prompt is add a tagging feature and automatically tag all articles as whatever you think best. Explainer, news, how-to guide, etc. no more than five and then allow people on the homepage to easily click a tag and only view articles about those and make me Chris Kerner the author of every article with this attached pick as my headshot because I thought

13:07 this would be good for SEO for myself. These are all AI written but it doesn't matter that they're AI written because they're answering questions for people. One vibe coding tip is you don't want to ask it to do multiple things at once. I kind of did there. I'm kind of breaking my own rule. I asked it to add my picture and name and to add a tagging feature.

13:23 That's kind of a big ask tagging feature. Um, but that's okay. So, my next prompt is going to be to add more um AI written articles that answer specific questions. So, you can see here I went to chatgpt and I said moldbook is going mega viral. It's the Reddit for AI agents. I own moldbook newsws.com and I'm putting a blog on it. Everyone is searching for what is Moldbook.

13:43 What are some other common search terms that you think people are searching for about Moldbook that I could write SEO friendly articles about? So, this is super good. What is Mbook AI? Moldbook explained. Moldbook platform. Moldbook website. Mbook Reddit alternative, sell AI agents, monetization, trends chasing, moldbook viral, moldbook news, mbook growth, moldbook users, traffic, yada yada yada.

14:04 Um, is moldbook the next Reddit? So, I'm going to ask Replet to write articles about all of these things and to publish them. This was my prompt when asking it to write a what is moldbook article. Everyone is searching for what is moldbook. Please write an SEOfriendly article with all the requisite keywords and tags and everything needed to be picked up by search engines and then link to that article in the main menu on the homepage.

14:27 It should be very easy to read and have a gripping hook written in sixth grade language so anyone can understand using analogies and the like comparing it to Reddit but for AI agents. Pretty cool. It shows you what it's doing to the website as it's doing it. Article filtering. Awesome. Look at that tagging feature. So freaking cool. Oh man, that's so good.

14:43 Chris Kerner. Chris Kerner trending. Oh man, this is a really good-look website. So look how helpful Chad Gypt is here. It says on your what is Moltbook article, it said you should have internal links to how Moltbook works. Is Moltbook legit? Moltbook versus Reddit, how to make money on Moltbook, best AI agents on Maltbook. What I'm really excited to show you is how this is going and what my plans are for it.

15:03 So then I went to Replet and said, "Okay, I want to acquire email addresses for this new site because what's the point?" Like, you're not going to monetize a website with ads anymore in this day and age. You need email addresses. So, I use Beehive right here for my um for my newsletter. I love it obviously. And uh I told Replet, hey, integrate the subscribe form with Beehive.

15:25 And it said, "What's your Beehive API key?" So, I went to Beehive. I went to settings. I clicked API. I generated it. I just got a long string of numbers and I told it to replet. Replet's like, "Cool, you're now connected to Beehive." So, I went to moldbooks.com, typed in my email, and it worked. And so now every single email address that I acquire from moldbook newsws.com will be routed into Beehive and Beehive will know where it came from and it will send its own welcome email that I set up through their automation

15:53 system to welcome them to Moldbook News. Oh, and don't forget if you ever want to start installing AI into small businesses or become an AI consultant or if you ever want to monetize this stuff, I do have a community where that's all we're doing. We're becoming AI consultants together. Dozens of people have found their first customers and it's called Playmakers. playmakersai.com or you can see the link in the description. Thanks for hanging out on the corner office.