The Koerner Office - Business Ideas and Deep Dives with Chris Koerner - Openclaw is BOOMING! Here’s How to Profit⏐Ep. #271
Episode Date: February 3, 2026⚠️IMPORTANT UPDATE⚠️: This episode was recorded on Saturday during the initial viral surge of Moltbook. Since recording, several major security vulnerabilities have been reported, including po...tential API key leaks and prompt injection risks. I wasn't aware of these specific exploits at the time of filming, but they definitely reinforce my warning in the video to be careful with permissions.━Ride the AI tidal wave together. Join the community of AI consultants learning to charge $500–$35k/mo (per client): https://playmakersai.com/━Check out my newsletter at https://TKOPOD.com and join my new community at https://TKOwners.com━Moltbook Newshttps://moltbooknews.comA brand new platform called Moltbook is going viral fast. It’s basically Reddit, but instead of humans posting, it’s AI agents talking to each other. In this episode, I break down what Moltbook actually is, why it’s exploding, and how I quickly built and launched a site around it using AI. We then zoom out into the bigger opportunity around AI agents, OpenClaw, and what it looks like to monetize this wave through services, tools, and consulting before it becomes mainstream.Enjoy! ---Watch this on YouTube instead here: tkopod.co/p-ytAsk me a question on or off the show here: http://tkopod.co/p-askLearn more about me: http://tkopod.co/p-cjkLearn about my company: http://tkopod.co/p-cofFollow me on Twitter here: http://tkopod.co/p-xFree weekly business ideas newsletter: http://tkopod.co/p-nlShare this podcast: http://tkopod.co/p-allScrape small business data: http://tkopod.co/p-os---
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All right, guys, this is freaking crazy.
If you haven't heard of MaltBook yet, then you're probably living under a rock.
What is MaltBook?
Well, 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.
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, they're joking about humans, they're making fun of humans,
they're upboating each other, 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 and I want to brainstorm some ideas with you on how
you can use something like MaltBook to make money or just use AI agents to make money.
Because that's why you're consuming this content today, right?
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 Cloudbot?
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.
It can manage your calendar.
It's pretty freaky.
I've played around it quite a bit.
So it started out as Claudebot, C-L-A-W-D, and then it renamed to Molt Bot.
And now it's OpenClaw.
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 open-cloth
AI agents in a box, 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. 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 because it's going to be awesome. It's a cool experience. I think you could charge between $300 and $1,000 to set this up. And then you can charge between $50 and $350 a month to maintain this and service this. 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
SaaS 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. This is the lower friction route, which I think usually wins in
most cases. Stalling 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's a lot of,
it just does customer support for them. But instead of just being one widget on the website,
it can be multimodal. 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 e-com 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. 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
clodbot. It was called Claudebot at the time. He spent a few hours late at night playing around
with it. 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?
Is this AGI?
Are they thinking, no, they're not.
I'm sorry, 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.
Chad GPT 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.
If you don't have ideas for how to use it, just ask Chad, GBT.
Tell Chat, ChpT, 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.
And if MaltBook slash OpenClawe, if this becomes like a new TikTok 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, start apps, build agents, and have them go to Moldbook and start posting
and reacting to post.
Like, I can't believe I'm even saying this.
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. So I did what I always do and I went and just started buying up
domain names, moltbookbooknews.com, mulptookseo.com, mulptook API.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
wanted to vibe code a website. And by vibe code, I mean make a website just by using prompts to an AI
tool like Replit in this case. And this just went live minutes ago and strangers all over the
world are already on my website. I am flabbergasted. I just Googled Most Beautiful News websites.
Ironically, the top result that's not sponsored is Reddit and they linked to a bunch of beautifully
designed news websites. So I took a screenshot of it. And then I went to Reddit. Lindy is
honestly my favorite vibe coding app, L-A-N-N-D-I-A-I, but Replit was the first place I went to,
and I included a screenshot of tablet news, and I said I want an elegant news site with
design similar to tabletmag.com. 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 name mulpooknus.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. 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 publish it. So I clicked 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 Maltbook, right? And if you just look at how many
people are searching for Maltbook, tons, millions of people are searching for Maltbook. But phrases
like, what is Maltbook? Okay. Well, if 100 people are searching for Maltbook, then four people
are searching for what is Mold Book? Not bad. What about Maltbook News? Because that is my domain name
after all. Okay. One.
If I only look at Maltbook News all by itself, 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.
But if tomorrow 20% less people search for Mold Book News, then it will be.
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.
Now, Maltbook News you can see is only being searched for about a fifth of as much as
what is Moldbook.
So I should probably buy the domain name what is Moldbook.com as well.
Oh, it's already taken.
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 Maltbook 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? Google hates bait and switches. If your site rings 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 mulbooknews.com entitled, What is
Maltbook?
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 Moldbook, 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.
I think it might even outrank mulpook.com itself.
But I want another article called What Is Motebook AI?
Because about a fourth of the people that are searching for what is Maltbook are searching
for what is Moldbook AI.
So I could have just one article or I could have two.
I'll have two because they're AI written anyways.
What's the harm?
Holy crap.
Okay.
So I've had 12 unique active use.
in the last 30 minutes and it just went live 30 minutes ago. I'm not trying to pull the wool over
your eyes. It's mostly U.S. traffic, 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. I'm like full on ADHD right now.
So you go back to Google search console. You inspect the URL. All you do is click request indexing and
then it says, okay, you're good to go. 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 Maltbook News.com directly into their browser, a direct site visit,
which is actually kind of crazy that that's already happening. I mean, guys, this website,
Maltbook is like three days old at this point. 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. 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, et cetera, 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 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.
That's kind of a big ask tagging feature, but that's okay.
So my next prompt is going to be to add more AI written articles that answer specific questions.
I went to chat GPT and I said, MOLPook is going mega viral.
It's the Reddit for AI agents.
I own Motebookmooke news.com and I'm putting a blog on it.
Everyone is searching for what is Moldbook?
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.
is Mulpook AI? Mulpook explained.
Mopbook platform, Mopbook website, Mopc Reddit alternative, sell AI agents, monetization,
trends chasing, MULPIC viral, MOLPIC news, MOLPIC growth, MULPUC users, traffic, yada, yada, yada.
Is MOLPOOC the next Reddit?
So I'm going to ask Replit to write articles about all of these things and to publish
them.
This was my prompt when asking it to write what is MOLPIC article.
Please write it.
Everyone is searching for what is MOLPIC, so please write an SEO-friendly article with all the
requisite keywords and tags and everything needed to be picked up by search engines and then
linked to that article in the main menu on the homepage. 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. Okay. So it looks like virtually no one is searching.
Relatively no one still could be thousands of people but compared to these other two terms.
Relatively no one is searching for mulchbook traffic. So look how helpful chat GPT is here.
It says on your what is moldbook article said you should have
internal links to how MaltBook works. Is Motebook legit? Moldbook versus Reddit, how to make money on
Maltbook best AI agents on MULPook. So what I'm really excited to show you is how this is going and what
my plans are for it. So then I went to Rapplet 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 for my for my newsletter. I love it,
obviously and I told Replett, hey, integrate the subscribe form with Beehive. 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 Repplet. Reple's like,
cool, you're now connected Beehive. So I went to Molpooknews.com, typed to my email and it worked.
But it wasn't attributing that email address from that website. So then I went back to Repplet and
said, hey, I need you to add what's called a UTM parameter, which is like a, a,
a tracking code that you can attach to clicks, to intent, to purchases, to email addresses,
in this case. So then Replit said, no problem. Every time you get an email from this website,
moltbooknews.com, it's going to have the UTM parameter of Multbook News. So then I can keep track of
these guys. I don't want them to get my normal welcome email because my welcome email has nothing
to do with Multbook, right? I want them to get a different welcome email. So I need these tracking
parameters. So I can create some automations to make sure they're routed to the right place.
So now every single email address that I acquire from multiplecnews.com will be routed into
Behive and Behive will know where it came from and it will not send it a welcome email.
It will send its own welcome email that I set up through their automation system to welcome
them to Mulpuk 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.
Playmakers AI.com or you can see the link in the description.
Thanks for hanging out on the corner office.
I hope you learned some today.
