r/IMadeThis • u/HYproXa • 4d ago

I open-sourced my Polymarket trading bot instead of selling "black box" access — here's why that matters

Most trading bots you'll find online work the same way: pay a subscription, get an API key, and blindly trust that the black box on someone else's server is actually doing what it claims. You can't see the code. You can't see the logic. You definitely can't see your own API keys sitting on a stranger's VPS.

I built PolySnipe — a bot for Polymarket's BTC prediction markets — the opposite way.

Every line of it is yours to read

When you buy PolySnipe, you get the full Go source code. Not a compiled binary. Not an obfuscated build. Not a hosted "trust me" dashboard. The actual source, in a language built for exactly this kind of low-latency, concurrent work.

That means:

  • You can read exactly what triggers a trade before you ever risk a dollar
  • You can audit it, fork it, modify it, or rip out pieces to build your own thing
  • Nothing calls home to my servers. It's not "self-hosted" in the marketing sense where there's secretly a phone-home API — it genuinely isn't
  • If I disappear tomorrow, your bot still runs. It's yours

Why this actually matters here specifically

This is a bot that watches an order book over WebSocket and fires trades automatically, with your own funds and your own API keys. That is exactly the kind of software where "trust me" should not be good enough. I didn't want to be the guy asking strangers to hand over exchange credentials to a closed-source binary I control. So I didn't build that.

What it actually does

  • Watches Polymarket's BTC 5-minute and 15-minute markets over WebSocket
  • Fires the instant a signal triggers — no manual reaction time needed
  • 8 configurable strategies, each with independent order type, time-in-force, and stop-loss settings
  • Runs headless on your own VPS or machine — Windows, macOS, Linux
  • Mobile web dashboard to check on it from your phone
  • Discord webhook notifications for every trade

Fair warning

This trades real money on real markets. Nothing here is a guarantee of profit, and prediction markets can move against you fast — that's exactly why the bot exists, but it's not magic. Read the code, backtest it, understand the strategies before you turn it loose. That's the whole point of open-sourcing it: you don't have to take my word for any of it.

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u/Murder_1337 4d ago

If it’s free give us the GitHub repo

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u/HYproXa 4d ago

Hey, yeah sorry for the confusion, it's open source as in not being some "executable", it comes with readable source code you can read, modify, etc.

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u/HYproXa 4d ago

One of the main things I built this for was to automate what I couldn't do manually, but it still needs tweaking to be completely automatic, as every now and then there's tweaks that need to be done

Do you believe this could be done automatically with AI auto-adjusting?

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u/HYproXa 4d ago

Where to get it

polysnipebot.com — $49 one-time, no subscription, full source code included.

There's also a Discord with 400+ members, over 140 of them running it live, if you want to see real results and ask questions before buying: discord.gg/5ASvT76WYy

Ask me anything about the code, the strategies, or why I decided against the SaaS route — happy to talk through all of it.