~/towu $ whoami
Dhanush Rambhatla
@TheOnlyWayUp · Hyderabad, India
I build large-scale systems, break things responsibly, and write about it. Currently: founder at Audora (YC S26) — audiobooks for fiction, where every character has their own voice — and archival infrastructure at WP Archive (1M+ visits/month).
~/towu $ ls projects/ --sort=impact
- Audora YC S26 · founder
Turns fiction into audiobooks where every character speaks with their own voice — casting, performance, and audio pipeline built from scratch.
- WP Archive 2023 — present
Digital book archival platform. Crossed 1,000,000 visits in March 2025 alone; ML-based recommendations used by 4,000+ readers.
- Case Search used by legal professionals
Semantic search over 1.7M Indian court case proceedings — lawyers query in natural language instead of keywords, in real time.
- API wrappers & dev tooling python · rust
Async-first libraries in Python and Rust, 65,000+ downloads over 4 years: wattpad-py, wattpad-rs, mcstalker, async-animanga, discord-colorize.
- MC Tracker co-founder · 2021-22
Minecraft server analytics platform. 500,000+ views in its first 3 months, $2,000 in sponsorships. Built the SDK and backend.
- Tapas 2nd place, CHIREC Hackathon 2025
WhatsApp AI study assistant — forwards in documents and messages, get deadlines, answers, and study plans back.
- YouTube QnA 2023
Chatbot that answers from YouTube as a knowledge base, grounded in specific timestamped references instead of hallucinations.
- PanchangamLite svelte
Vedic astrology timing calculator, originally built for family. 300+ monthly users.
- WP-DM-Export 2024
When Wattpad announced all DMs would be deleted, built an exporter so people could save theirs before the purge.
~/towu $ cat disclosures.log
- TRW authentication vulnerability in Andrew Tate’s "The Real World" platform, exposing 230GB+ of data
- Cognita global misconfiguration exposing data of 70,000+ student accounts — coordinated disclosure and fix
- Shott.in payment gateway bypass enabling arbitrary pricing and free purchases — responsibly disclosed
- school infra Microsoft account takeover vulnerability, led to policy changes
all found ethically, all disclosed responsibly. if I broke your thing, I probably also told you how to fix it.
~/towu $ gh stats
@TheOnlyWayUp since 2020 · ★421 across 43 original repos · 153 followers
python ████████████████ 26
svelte ██ 4
javascript █ 2
rust █ 1
jupyter █ 1
currently learning rust. yes, I refactor every 3 business days — how did you know?
~/towu $ git shortlog --open-source
- * 5,200+ contributions since 2021 — 1,680 in 2024 alone
- * 83 PRs merged into 50+ repos I don’t own — LangChain, daisyUI, Pyodide, DSPy, Starlette, cal.com, KOReader plugins…
- * shipped real fixes like legacy-format compatibility for koreader-calibre-plugin
- * maintainer of libraries at 10,000-20,000+ downloads each
- * and yes, some of those 83 are typo fixes. typos are bugs.
show all 40 public repos (3 archived hidden) →
| repo | ★ | lang | last push |
|---|---|---|---|
| WattpadDownloader | 314 | Svelte | 2026-06-17 |
| Wattpad-Py | 12 | Python | 2024-02-03 |
| Template-Selfbot | 6 | Python | 2022-10-27 |
| Template-API | 6 | Python | 2022-09-19 |
| mcStalkerApiWrapper | 6 | Python | 2021-12-13 |
| TheOnlyWayUp | 4 | — | 2025-04-18 |
| Twitch-Chat-Joiner | 4 | Python | 2024-04-23 |
| Artificial-Whitelist | 4 | Python | 2023-08-21 |
| Template-Website | 4 | Python | 2022-05-08 |
| autoLinkPoster | 4 | Python | 2022-02-16 |
| roleWhitelist | 4 | Python | 2022-02-05 |
| scamChecker | 4 | Python | 2021-11-23 |
| Async-Animanga | 4 | Python | 2021-09-12 |
| WP-DM-Export | 3 | Svelte | 2024-04-27 |
| selfcord | 3 | Python | 2022-06-12 |
| check_if_server_cracked | 3 | Python | 2022-06-04 |
| Template-Bot | 3 | Python | 2022-04-08 |
| apiProxy | 3 | Python | 2022-03-11 |
| moderatorReactBot | 3 | Python | 2022-02-11 |
| wattpad-rs | 2 | Rust | 2025-04-30 |
| VulnStable | 2 | Python | 2022-05-18 |
| roleInviteBot | 2 | Python | 2022-02-05 |
| MinecraftServerInfo-Discord | 2 | Python | 2021-10-15 |
| Discord.py-Error-handler | 2 | Python | 2021-09-21 |
| discordpy-matplotlib | 2 | Python | 2021-08-07 |
| classesTest | 2 | — | 2021-06-21 |
| site | 1 | Svelte | 2024-07-17 |
| PanchangamLite | 1 | Svelte | 2024-04-16 |
| youtube-qna | 1 | JavaScript | 2023-06-09 |
| hangmanSolver | 1 | Python | 2021-12-29 |
| markdown-portfolio | 1 | — | 2020-12-19 |
| hello-github-actions | 1 | — | 2020-12-19 |
| bookface-companion-personal | 0 | JavaScript | 2026-07-13 |
| StanfordPhilosophyViz | 0 | Jupyter Notebook | 2024-12-12 |
| Pterodactyl-PowerAction | 0 | — | 2022-02-27 |
| kekda-py | 0 | — | 2022-02-10 |
| Card-Generator | 0 | — | 2022-02-04 |
| rebase | 0 | Python | 2022-01-18 |
| DiscordBotSilencer | 0 | — | 2021-10-13 |
| practice_tower_defense | 0 | — | 2021-10-09 |
~/towu $ ls friends/
ls: the 88x31 wall is being re-hung. check back soon.