Personal productivity
Run a 24/7 agent team over Telegram
Explainer of a multi-agent team on OpenClaw and Hermes, driven from Telegram with cron jobs.
OpenClawHermes Personal productivity X · 2026-06-28Automate email-driven workflows by forwarding
Forward an email to an agent address and it does the task (summaries, research, scheduling).
MXtoAI Personal productivity Hacker News · 2025-05-27Run everyday automations with an open-source agent
RowboatX: Claude-Code-style agent for background everyday automations.
RowboatX Personal productivity Hacker News · 2025-11-18Operate an iPhone with an AI agent
Agent that taps through iPhone apps to complete tasks.
PhoneAgent Personal productivity Hacker News · 2025-06-02Turn your screen recordings into agents
Screenpipe records how you work and turns repeat workflows into agents.
Screenpipe Personal productivity Hacker News · 2026-07-23Use an agentic browser for web chores
Open-source agentic browser that completes tasks on sites.
BrowserOS Personal productivity Hacker News · 2025-06-20Clean up annoying websites with a browser agent
Tweeks: describe a change and an agent rewrites the page for you.
Tweeks Personal productivity Hacker News · 2025-11-13Use OpenClaw as a life-changing personal assistant
Personal essay on daily life tasks run through OpenClaw.
OpenClaw Personal productivity Hacker News · 2026-02-08A bull case for a personal agent (Clawdbot)
Detailed account of real tasks delegated to Clawdbot/OpenClaw.
OpenClaw Personal productivity Hacker News · 2026-02-03See what people actually do with OpenClaw
Ask HN thread collecting real OpenClaw usage from users.
OpenClaw Personal productivity Hacker News · 2026-04-15Clear an Instapaper backlog with a daily Hermes cron
A Hermes agent cron pulls three random saved Instapaper articles each afternoon and sends them with an Archive All button so the backlog actually gets read.
Hermes Personal productivity X · 2026-10-14Use a hold-to-talk Mac voice assistant on Claude
Atticus is a macOS hold-to-talk assistant that runs simple tasks locally in under a second and routes harder work through Claude, built by a 9th-grader and shown on HN.
ClaudeAtticus Personal productivity Hacker News · 2026-10-12Homeschool kids with a Hermes agent
A parent built a Hermes agent to help kids get unstuck while homeschooling, with a closely monitored Claude Code account for a teen and a Ms Frizzle-style agent for a younger child.
HermesClaude Code Personal productivity X · 2026-10-11Fix a daily Mac annoyance by having an agent read the system logs
AirPods kept disconnecting on every Mac user switch. Claude Code read the Bluetooth logs, found macOS wipes and restores iCloud pairings, and within an hour built a small background agent that reconnects the headphones automatically; the user also filed a bug with Apple.
Claude Code Personal productivity X · 2026-10-17Move years of saved map pins into a new app without duplicates
While moving old notes out of Google My Maps, the user had Claude Code build a migration tool in one shot. It processes the KMZ export and checks each place against the existing database to skip duplicates.
Claude Code Personal productivity X · 2026-10-16Send your family a tidy travel itinerary in seconds
Before a trip to Guatemala, one agent coordinated airport cars and checked the weather, and a 15-second voice request to another (Dot) produced an email for the user's mother with his full itinerary.
DotMuse Personal productivity X · 2026-10-18Fix a broken website button with a custom browser extension
The 'Open in GitHub Desktop' button the user relied on for years stopped working. He asked Codex to triage it: Codex confirmed it was a real bug on the website, then wrote and installed a custom extension that fixed it, all in under a minute.
Codex Personal productivity X · 2026-10-20