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.
Watch user sessions, find real bugs and open only verified fixes
A former Robinhood engineer built an open-source agent that investigates user-facing issues and opens a PR only when it can verify the fix.
- Difficulty
- IntermediateOur rating
- Time to build
- Not reportedOur estimate
- Monthly cost
- Not reported
- Revenue
- Not reportedWe only show revenue the source states
- Engagement
- 40 HN points11 comments · fetched Oct 15, 2026
What they did
aray07 built Opslane after quarterly bug bashes at Robinhood where only bugs they could reproduce got fixed.
How it went
Open source with docs and a demo.
Worth knowing
Requiring verification before a PR keeps noise down.
Builder recipe
Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.
Stack
- Opslane
- Session data
- GitHub
Steps
- Open the repo in your coding agent and describe the goal and constraints.
- Ask for a plan first, then let it implement in small, reviewable steps.
- Run the tests or the app after each step and feed errors back.
- Review the diff before merging.
Starter prompt
From yesterday’s sessions, find user-facing errors that affected 3+ users, reproduce one, and open a PR only if a test proves the fix.Tags
Read the original
- Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466704 ↗ (opens in new tab) Aug 27, 2026 · 40 points, 11 comments (fetched 2026-10-15)
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