AI Worth Using Podcast and OpenClaw Launch Hackathon to Build Your Startup's First AI Hire
heyneighbor · x · 2026-09-18
The newly launched AI Worth Using Podcast (featuring Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of GitHub) has teamed up with the OpenClaw foundation to host a hackathon themed "Use OpenClaw 2.0 to Build Your Startup's First Hire."
Key details:
- Entries must use OpenClaw 2.0's new multiplayer mode and give an agent a real startup role (SDR, investor-relations lead, recruiter, etc.) — it must do actual work, not a demo
- Agents must be publicly available under MIT license and submitted to the AI Worth Using Agent Index
- Ranking is based on real usage: user installs and reported token consumption; deadline is September 30, 11:59 pm PT, with the top five reviewed by Tom Preston-Werner and the AgentCribs developer community
- The winner (or one team member) gets a flight to San Francisco to workshop their agent with AgentCribs and present it live
Podcast guests include Peter Steinberger (creator of OpenClaw) and Jesse Vincent (creator of Superpowers).
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