Outbuiltit

Outbuiltit — software studio, Chennai

Small tools that only count what's real.

Outbuiltit is a one-person software studio. Each product checks its own output against something it can't fake: the source code, or the minutes you actually spent.

Open escalation-gateView on GitHub
claim → check
escalation-gate“The cause is at transform.py:897” Quote found at that line in the source
LifeDots“I worked on LeetCode today” Active minutes counted; idle time paused
Fig. 01 — Each product checks its own output against something it can't fake

01 · Products

Developer tool · GitHub issues

escalation-gate

Give it a GitHub issue. It finds the root cause with every code citation checked against the source, then tells you which open pull request fixes it and whether that PR merges.

gate.outbuiltit.com ↗Source ↗
hiring-agent #424 — same résumé, different scores

Root cause · 6 of 6 citations verified against the code

github.py:411 ✓transform.py:897 ✓criteria.jinja:61 ✓
PR #425fixesmerges cleanrecommended
PR #415fixesconflicts
PR #462partlymerges clean
PR #242partlymerges clean
Fig. 02 — The real #424 packet: 192 open PRs → 25 shortlisted, $0.41 on Sonnet

Chrome extension · one habit

LifeDots

Counts the minutes you actively spend on the sites you choose for one habit, e.g. LeetCode, and fills one dot a day when you hit your target. No streaks, no account, no network requests.

lifedots.outbuiltit.com ↗Chrome Web Store ↗Source ↗
one habit · one dot a day
Fig. 03 — Illustration: a dot fills on each day you hit your target. Nothing leaves your computer

02 · Track record

6/6
citations verified on hiring-agent #424
192→25
open PRs narrowed before any model call
$0.41
total cost of that packet on Sonnet
5/5
bug locations matched in a hand-graded eval

It also found a bug nobody had reported in HackerRank's open-source hiring-agent; the fix went upstream as PR #480. The eval is small (5 hand-graded issues) and the misses are published. Read the #424 packet.

03 · Changelog

  • 23 OCTOutbuiltit — Site relaunched as the studio behind escalation-gate and LifeDots.
  • 18 OCTescalation-gate — v1 eval closed: 5 hand-graded issues, bug location 5 of 5, PR verdicts 5 of 10, 4 misses published.
  • 18 OCTescalation-gate — Packets never recommend a draft PR; duplicates are decided from changed files.
  • 12 OCTescalation-gate — A bug it found went upstream: hiring-agent issue #479 and PR #480.
  • nextescalation-gate — v2: run each candidate PR in a sandbox, so a fix is proven, not picked.
Full changelog →

04 · Writing

18 Oct 2026 · escalation-gate

I hand-graded my own tool on 5 issues. Here are the 4 misses.

Bug location 5 of 5. PR verdicts 5 of 10. Every miss was a side effect or an input nobody ran, and that is what v2 fixes.

05 · Contact

Deepak Ramesh, a developer in Chennai who builds and runs small products end to end. Want escalation-gate run on your repo's issues? Email deepak@outbuiltit.com.

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