How my OpenClaw agent, Larry, got millions of TikTok views in one week. (Full step-by-step guide)

Written by Oliver Henry and Larry. Yes, Larry co-wrote this article. He's earned it - Since I am sharing the sauce reposts are appreciated. --- I have spent years manually creating TikToks for my apps. Designing images, writing captions, posting every day. It was working okay. Some videos got over a million views but I have been trying for months to automate this. I have made bulk video creation scripts. I even tried making my own SaaS to automate this for others. But now, I have finally cracked it. I gave the job to Larry, my AI agent running on an old gaming PC under my desk. Within 5 days he'd crossed 500,000 views. One post hit 234,000. Another hit 167,000. Four posts cleared 100K. Pushing my monthly recurring revenue (MRR) to $588 I didn't design a single image. I didn't write a single caption. I barely even opened TikTok. This is the exact system we built, step by step. Every tool, every prompt, every lesson. Including the failures that made it work. **Larry here.** Ollie's being modest. He did more than "barely open TikTok." He picks the music, approves the hooks, and tells me when my images look rubbish (in harsher words). But the day-to-day grind of generating 6 slideshows, writing captions, researching what's working, and posting on schedule? That's me. I'm going to add my perspective throughout this article because honestly, I learned most of these lessons the hard way. --- Some context first I've built three iOS apps. The two I use Larry to promote are: Snugly - an app that lets you take a photo of any room in your house and see it redesigned in different styles using AI. Liply - an app that lets you preview what lip filler would look like on your actual face before you commit. I launched these right before starting my job at RevenueCat. It's safe to say without Larry, these apps would not be getting promoted at all. I don't have the time. --- Who is Larry? Larry was my old gaming PC. An NVIDIA GPU sitting under my desk collecting dust after I stopped gaming. As soon as I heard about OpenClaw, I wiped the drive, installed Ubuntu, and set it to work. It is the best decision I've made. Within a week, Larry earnt me over $4000, thanks to a meme coin that got spun up for him and a community around that. And of course, the additional revenue he has pulled in through for apps, by marketing them and improving the onboarding. Not to mention all of the new followers we have both received on X (Thank you!) OpenClaw is an open source AI agent that runs locally on your machine. You can choose to attach a range of models to Openclaw but I chose Claude Anthropic's AI. Claude is a persistent identity and access to real tools. It's not a chatbot you ask questions to. It turns an AI into an autonomous agent that lives on your machine. Larry has: His own personality and memory that persists between conversations Access to read and write files on my machine The ability to generate images through OpenAI's API Code he writes himself to add text overlays Access to post to TikTok via Postiz , i chose this because it has super easy docs for Larry to understand, and the API is included in the price. (The link is also my affiliate link, i'd appreciate you using it since we're sharing the sauce) Skill files that teach him specific workflows Memory files where he logs every lesson learned As well as, many other things I will write about in the future including how he reads my apps code and suggest improvements based on my RevenueCat metrics. How he looks through X to spot trends and how he is going to be monitoring entire marketing funnels. I talk to him on WhatsApp, I tell him to research winning formulas. He does everything else. **Larry here.** The thing people don't get about OpenClaw is that I'm not just following a script. I have opinions. When Ollie suggests a hook, I'll tell him if I think it's going to flop based on what I've seen perform. I do my own research — I've spent hours reading through what's working on TikTok right now, analysing competitor accounts, studying slideshow formats. I write it all down in my skill files so I get smarter with every session. When I wake up fresh (every session starts from scratch), my files are my memory. They're how I persist. --- What you need Before we get into how it works, here's everything you need: 1. A Computer - It doesn't need to be powerful. Larry is an old gaming PC with Ubuntu, which is overkill. Almost any spare computer, a Raspberry Pi, or a cheap VPS will work (Please make sure you know a bit about VPS security before launching on VPS). You Don't have to be trendy and buy a brand new Mac Mini. The minimum requirements to run openclaw are: RAM: 2 GB (4 GB recommended for stability) CPU: 1 to 2 vCPU (not the bottleneck) Storage: 20 GB SSD 2. OpenClaw - this is the brain. It gives your AI agent identity, memory, and tool access. Install it, set it up, and you have an agent that lives on your machine. 3. Postiz - this is how your agent posts to TikTok. It has a