Send daily trending social posts as content references
One practitioner notes that the builder assembled socialcrawl, a single-API-key service that pulls data from 21+ social platforms, and connected it to OpenClaw. Each morning the agent sends them the posts trending across X, Threads and LinkedIn over the previous 24 hours. The builder reports that over the following week their posts reached 100K views on Threads and gained 200 followers.
- Agent or tool
- OpenClaw
- Topic
- Media & Content
- Reported on
- Hacker News
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
Making content involves a lot of production steps around the creative part. Here an agent takes on some of those steps so the person can focus on the idea. It is one of 62 sightings filed under Media & Content on Agent Sightings (number 57 by interest), and one of 41 involving OpenClaw.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into OpenClaw or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Creative task: send daily trending social posts as content references. Outline first, then draft. Preserve my voice; ask before posting publicly.
The prompt breaks down into 3 steps you can check as the agent works:
- Creative task: send daily trending social posts as content references.
- Outline first, then draft.
- Preserve my voice; ask before posting publicly.
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838224. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.