Hand Claude Code a website and an ad budget to run on its own
A web developer gave Claude Code a baseline site, ad accounts with a budget, and scraping tools, and lets it make marketing decisions every four hours.
Spend leftover Claude and Codex quota on small pull requests
A founder built a bot that turns spare subscription tokens into pull requests for small tasks he never gets around to.
- Difficulty
- BeginnerOur rating
- Time to build
- est. ~1 hour to set upOur estimate
- Monthly cost
- Uses existing subscriptionsFrom the source
- Revenue
- Not reportedWe only show revenue the source states
- Engagement
- 2 HN points1 comment · fetched Oct 15, 2026
What they did
Ari Wilson, founder of Bakeoff, built RemainderBot. Given your goals and task list, it uses unused Claude and Codex subscription capacity to write PRs you can review.
How it went
He built it to clear small context-heavy tasks without context-switching and to stop wasting subscription limits in quiet weeks. It is open source and he calls it early.
Worth knowing
Every PR still needs your review. Check your plan's terms on automated use.
Builder recipe
Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.
Stack
- openremainderbot (GitHub)
- Claude and/or Codex subscription
- A task list file
Steps
- Clone the repo and follow its setup.
- Write a short goals file and a list of small, well-scoped tasks.
- Let it open PRs near the end of your usage window.
- Review and merge or close.
Starter prompt
From TASKS.md, pick the smallest task you can fully finish, implement it on a new branch with tests, and open a PR with a 3-line summary and how to verify it.Tags
Read the original
- Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073607 ↗ (opens in new tab) Oct 13, 2026 · 2 points, 1 comments (fetched 2026-10-15)
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