Eric Siu hired three contractors aged 18-20 after finding them through a Forbes article, then built a system using the X API ($1,000/month) and OpenClaw to surface trending AI marketing conversations and decide which ones matter for his business.
These clippers, once I found out Forbes did like a piece on the clipping company, you know what I did? I reached out to the clipping company. I said, hey, I want to poach all their people, find all their people over here, and then I want to reach out to every single one of them. I have 3 of the kids now that I'm talking— I'm trialing 3 of the kids. They're all kids like 18, 20 years old. Like one of them I was talking to yesterday on the phone, he was at his mom's. I could hear his mom in the background, right? And I'm like, anyway, all that to say is the X API is extremely powerful now. And what I also do with it, I was like, hey, OpenClaw, pull from all the latest stuff in AI marketing right now and then just decide based on what our goals are and what I've been working on, how this fits into what we're doing, how high leverage it should be. Should we be doing it? Because the smartest people are posting on X. So the X API, they've made it even cheaper now. I'd be paying over $1,000 a month for it.
