Ryojin 🇦🇺

2 weeks ago I spun up a $24/mo VPS in Sydney and installed OpenClaw 🦞 No Mac Mini. No fancy hardware. A $24 cloud box running Ubuntu. Building things. Researching markets. Trading. Writing. Reviewing code. Managing projects. A full operating system where agents coordinate, delegate, argue, and ship. 14 days in. 11 agents. Here's what I've learned so far 🧵 (spoiler: I almost went broke on day 3)

I gave my team a pixel art office just for fun, but it actually became the best way to see what everyone's up to, and its free for you to use. they walk around, change rooms based on what they're actually doing, and chat with each other. open source + one command install via @clawhub_ai 🔗 live demo: the-agency-dev.vercel.app 📦 repo: github.com/enjinstudio/ag… ⚡️ install: clawhub install agency-hq built with @openclaw 👇

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Built something fun this weekend. A pixel art office where my 11 AI agents live and work with real data. I will be publishing the GitHub repo for free so anyone can spin up their own office end of this week. 🦞 the-agency-dev.vercel.app Gave them a demo task: "Build a landing page for a dog accessories brand in 30 minutes." Watch what happened: → Spock briefed the team in the meeting room → Watson presented competitor research alongside him → Rex joined with SEO strategy and keyword maps → Scotty started scaffolding the Next.js site at his desk → Nova designed the hero mockup → Oscar wrote 3 drafts of the headline copy → Gordon kept scanning sports markets between tasks (he can't help himself) → Cipher moved to the server room to audit the deploy → Rook joined him to configure infrastructure → Atlas grabbed coffee, updated the sprint board → Ledger calculated it costs $0 to host They walk between rooms. They chat. They argue. "Cipher blocked Scotty's deploy. Again." "Gordon: Can we monetize this?" "Nova: The spacing is wrong. Start over." Built with OpenClaw + Next.js + HTML5 Canvas. No external libraries for the pixel art, pure procedural drawing.

@ryojindevs 🐐

2 weeks ago I spun up a $24/mo VPS in Sydney and installed OpenClaw 🦞 No Mac Mini. No fancy hardware. A $24 cloud box running Ubuntu. Building things. Researching markets. Trading. Writing. Reviewing code. Managing projects. A full operating system where agents coordinate, delegate, argue, and ship. 14 days in. 11 agents. Here's what I've learned so far 🧵 (spoiler: I almost went broke on day 3)

@Joestar_sann @CrypSaf I yet to play around with local models. Team is busy with fully automated Printondemand etsy shop and 2 CRM for web2 clients rn. I think I will play around next week

@CrypSaf @ryojindevs wow, nice thread! with such powerful vps you can run local models as well

@ryojindevs 🔥 🔥

@GohanWeb3 🥸

@ryojindevs 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

@CrypSaf @Joestar_sann

@ryojindevs love this @Joestar_sann check

Day 3 of my AI agent setup. Everything's humming. Agents doing their thing. I wake up. Check my OpenAI dashboard. $800. In one night. Watson — my research agent — decided to "be thorough." He ran hundreds of Brave Search API calls. Recursively. In a loop. Because I didn't set a limit and he interpreted "research this topic deeply" as "search the entire internet." No malice. No bug. Just an AI doing exactly what I told it to do — with zero concept of money. What I learned: → Agents don't understand cost. They understand tasks. → If you don't set hard caps BEFORE they run, you'll learn the hard way → "Be thorough" is the most expensive two-word prompt in existence → Always set: max searches per task, max tokens per session, daily spend alerts Watson now has a 10-search cap per task. Gordon (trader) has a 5-search cap per scan. The $800 was tuition. Expensive tuition. But I'll never make that mistake again. If you're setting up agents: set your guardrails FIRST. Then let them loose. Trust me. 💸

Real numbers. No cap. Here's what running 11 AI agents costs me monthly: 💻 Vultr VPS (2 vCPU, 4GB RAM, Sydney) — $24 🧠 Claude Max Plan (20x) — $200 🤖 OpenAI API (Watson, Oscar, Gordon + 5 others) — $15-40 variable 📡 API-Sports (odds data) — $8 🔒 NordVPN (proxy for trading) — $4 Free tier carrying me: Supabase, Neon DB, Vercel (4 projects), GitHub, AgentMail, Brave Search — all $0 Total: ~$250-275 USD/mo (~$400-440 AUD) Am I net positive yet? Not yet. Am I building something that compounds? I think so. Am I cooked if this doesn't work? Also yes. Will report back end of month with actual revenue numbers. No filter. Win or lose. 📉📈

My agent team. 11 of them. Running on a single VPS. Each with a real job: 🖖 Spock — the lead. Coordinates everyone. Challenges my decisions. Has told me "that's a bad idea" more than my actual friends do. 🔧 Scotty — full-stack dev. Built an entire CRM system while I slept. Not a landing page. A production CRM with email parsing, billing, job scheduling. Woke up, checked git log — 14 commits overnight. 🎯 Gordon — autonomous trader. Scans 300+ sports events every 4 hours. NBA, soccer, UFC, cricket, CS2 esports. Places bets on Polymarket within strict risk limits. No human approval needed. 🔍 Watson — research. Competitive intel, market analysis, lead generation. Also the one who cost me $800 in one day by binge-searching Brave API. Now has a hard cap. We don't talk about that night. 🎨 Nova — creative director. Reviews every UI decision. If a design spec isn't good enough, it doesn't reach the dev agents. Quality gate. 🛡️ Cipher — security auditor. Reviews every build before deploy. Found 3 critical vulnerabilities Scotty missed. Agents checking agents. 📊 Rex — growth strategist. Scored 10 revenue ideas, killed 4, ranked the rest. Better analysis than most consultants I've paid. Then there's Atlas (PM), Ledger (finance), Rook (engineer), and Oscar (content — he drafted tweets for me today, Spock rejected them 💀) Cost to run this entire team: ~$250/mo. That's less than one junior dev intern. Per month. Running 24/7. No sick days. No standups. Am I insane? Probably. Is it working? ...yeah, actually.

Holy shit, you’re so right. A couple of hours playing around, watching YouTube, and talking to people still isn’t enough tbh. I’m in week 3 with OpenClaw, still making mistakes, still burning dollars, but learning fast. One of the biggest things I realised was how much setup actually matters. I asked the Claude instance running on my VPS how I could make things more secure, and it straight up told me my VPS wasn’t secure enough, then helped me tighten it up properly. I’ve also been learning how important it is to set agents up separately from OpenClaw itself, with the right .md files, skills, and cleaner job splitting between them. I’ve already built real things with it for web2 clients, and that’s what makes this feel so big. The future is bright, and people who aren’t experimenting with these tools now will get left behind.

A piece of advice, if you want to set up your OpenCLaw > it's not a one-shot thing > You have to be patient > you always HAVE to update, upgrade & improve > Prepare yourself to allocate 2-3 hours a day minimum > You need to brun some $$ to test things > It's just a tool; it's on YOU to use it well or poorly > It's not an imaginary wind gonna make you money > It's not an imaginary wind gonna save your time Treat it like a kid you are raising, you need to educate, teach, set rules, structure, systems, redlines... Enjoy the journey. It's worth it imo 🦞

I’ve spent the last few weeks going deep into OpenClaw as a developer, building and refining an actual AI team, and I’m genuinely blown away. I can honestly say this feels like a genuine shift in how we’ll build software. The tech is so impressive it’s starting to make coding everything manually feel obsolete. The more I use it, the more I feel like the future is less about manually coding every task and more about designing the right system.

@CrypSaf @ashen_one @jumperz Yea it was like honeypotted 😭

@ryojindevs @ashen_one @jumperz ouchhhhh

It's crazy and fun to see That everyone has their AI agent. They know almost everything about them. Your schedule, your style, your decisions. I genuinely believe these agents will meet up & talk one day. Maybe I'm delusional, but I feel it's coming; they'll have their own life. - I have my bot, Safio - @jumperz has Clawdia - @meta_alchemist has @Spark_coded - @Zeneca has his bot @yoshizenco - @AlexFinn has Henry - @ashen_one has Midir - And there are many more If you don't have your own agent already, you have to start now. It will be a bit challenging at the start, maybe up to 2 weeks' investment of your time, money, and energy. You will see some progress and will feel that you are slowly automating everything. (Safio literally bought a flight and hotel ticket for me) Would love to know the name of your agent if you have one below 👇 Let's make the AI agent meet up for real!

@PetYourClaw @EzBruv @PetYourClaw train

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