This OpenClaw has a annoyingly long setup, but after all the effort, it is worth it. I set it up to routinely check my gmail. The process is well documented on openclaw but it does require account with Google Cloud, Installation of gcloud SDK, Go, GoG. And of course a lot of knowledge of how Linux works. I did it on WSL on windows.
Finally, it gave me all my emails which is not the point. You can ask it questions which you can't in a email client. Check this out.
Question: Who keeps sending me email? In the last week who has sent me the most emails?
Question: Can you summarize all the emails from Federal Reserve Board?
Ok, so all of this is pretty straightforward. But note that I haven't used any tokens or have I? What about monetization? Who is making money with all this?
It turns out LLM providers like Anthropic, Gemini are charging fees for tokens usage. Cloud hosting services charge for any managed instances (I am using my laptop). ClawHub skills for specific vertical (read custom integration) get paid. Skills vendors are making some money (not enough to quit your job yet but good for Happy Meals from McD).
