Buildinpublic

I’ve been building GitArena for a while now, and a good chunk of it lives and dies by webhooks. GitHub sends PR events, other services send their own, and all of it needs to land on my machine while I’m actually building the thing that reacts to it. That meant a tunnel to localhost was always running somewhere in a terminal I forgot about. The annoying part wasn’t the tunnel itself. It was everything around it: the URL rotates, so I go re-paste it into GitHub’s webhook settings. I want to see the payload that just came in, so I dig through a provider’s dashboard or add a print() I’ll forget to remove. I want to re-send the same event without waiting for GitHub to fire it again, and that’s not really an option unless I pay for it. Multiply that by every provider GitArena talks to, and it stops being a minor annoyance and starts being the thing that breaks my flow every time I sit down to work. ...

OTPilot started as a personal itch: auto-fill TOTP codes on login pages without touching the phone. It’s still that. But v1.0.0 adds the one feature a local extension can’t do alone: your accounts follow you everywhere. Cloud sync - encrypted, zero-knowledge The big one. Accounts are encrypted on your device before they leave it. The server stores a blob it can't read. Only you hold the key. A recovery key is generated on first setup; lose your password and that key is the only way back in. Sync is not a background afterthought. It’s merge-aware: if two browsers edited the same account simultaneously, both versions survive and one is marked (conflict) so you can decide. If you deleted an account on one device, it propagates to the rest. No ghost accounts reappearing on the next open. Each account carries a timestamp; when edits happen sequentially, the newest version wins cleanly. ...

When I launched OTPilot a few days ago, the promise was simple: a Chrome extension that auto-fills TOTP codes on login pages — no phone, no copy-paste. It worked. But it felt like a v0.0.1. After few packed releases, OTPilot is starting to feel like a finished product. v0.0.4 and v0.0.5 aren’t minor updates — they’re the kind of changes that turn a functional tool into something you actually enjoy using. ...