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MicroSloth : The Offline AI Agent That Clears Your "Dread Queue" While Your Food Heats Up
What I Built We all know the awkward 60-to-90-second microwave limbo : waiting for leftovers to heat up or the kettle to boil is too short to sit do…
Hack the Valley - wow
This is a submission for the MLH x DEV Writing Challenge What I Built Money decisions can feel overwhelming , especially when financial tools assume…
VaultMind: The 100% Offline AI Knowledge Box for Disasters & Air-Gapped Expeditions
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 3 What I Built VaultMind is an offline-first, air-gapped AI Knowledge Box…
MedPort: a private medical portfolio that reads your lab reports on your own laptop
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Every time someone in my family sees a new doct…
OrderlyAI: Turning Messy Customer Messages into Orders with Local AI
OrderlyAI: Turning Messy Customer Messages into Orders with Local AI This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Sid…
EmotionLens: Exploring AI-Powered Facial Expression Analysis with Open-Source AI
This is a submission for the "Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle" ( https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12…
Screen2tutorial
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Screen2Tutorial turns a short screen recording…
Hello, DEV Community!
I'm a Computer Science Engineering graduate interested in Python, Data Science, AI/ML, and open-source development. I'm here to learn, build project…
🛡️ FreelanceShield OS: An Open-Weight AI Micro-SaaS to Stop Scope Creep & Unpaid Work
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Every independent freelancer—whether a video ed…
ResumeForge: A Privacy-First AI Resume Analyzer Built with Local Open-Weight Models
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Every time someone applies for a job today, the…
Hello DEV! My Goals for Hacktoberfest 2026
Hello everyone! 👋 I'm jumping into Hacktoberfest and excited to dive deeper into the open-source community. What I'm working on Exploring open-sourc…
Edemy AI: Turning Online Learning into an Opportunity 🚀
Edemy AI: Turning Online Learning into an Opportunity 🚀 This is my submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 2 — Side Hustle .…
🏪 Ranchi Dukaan Pro — Predicting Stock Demand with TabPFN-TS
Smart Stock & Demand Predictor Can an AI forecast help a small shopkeeper make better stocking decisions? Small retailers have to decide what to…
My Global Hack Week Recap: Cursor, Grok and a Few Tiny Apps
Last week I took part in MLH's Global Hack Week as part of Hacktoberfest 2026. I had one week, a healing ankle, and a goal of finishing my Hacktober…
Eight Minutes to Live. Was It Cursor, or Was It the Spec?
A tip calculator, a stopwatch, and a lot of pesos. TL;DR: I built a USD/MXN tip calculator with Cursor for the Build a Mini App challenge during Hac…
VendorForge AI: An Autonomous Reseller Copilot That Turns Clutter into Cash
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle 💡 What I Built VendorForge AI is an autonomous side-hustle w…
My dad's health insurance covered nothing, so I built an AI that reads the fine print for him
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Side Hustle What I Built Insurance Samjho ("samjho" = "understand", for the non…
ReceiptVault: The 100% Offline AI Bookkeeper for Freelancers Under Strict NDAs
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 2 — Side Hustle What I Built ReceiptVault is a zero-data-leakage, offline-…
LocalLens: private document Q&A that runs 100% on your machine
LocalLens: private document Q&A that runs 100% on your machine My entry for the Hacktoberfest Week 2 "Side Hustle" challenge — built with open-w…
RelayPilot: An AI Night-Shift Engineer for LLM Relay Stations
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle. What I Built RelayPilot is an AI ops copilot for people who…
Hustlegen:AI Listing Writer for Etsy
What I Built I built ** HustleGen **, a lightweight, AI-powered e-commerce copywriter tailored for Etsy, eBay, and Shopify sellers. It takes a few b…
TouchGrass — AI That Gets You Off Your Screen
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Built with Gemma by Google · Powered by Hugging Face · Deplo…
Grassday 🌿: An Offline-First AI Companion That Tells You Exactly When to Touch Grass
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built Last Saturday, I opened three different weather…
Maati: a little tree that nudges you back outside
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built Maati turns “take a break” into a small mission…
How I Built a RAG Engine in Node.js
TheArchive-AI . RAG Powered Introduction As developers, we consume vast amounts of documentation, articles, and research daily. Most of our personal…
I Built an AI That Teaches You to Notice the World, Not Stare at a Screen
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass . What I Built Observation Coach — A little less screen. A l…
Golden Hours
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass A team project by @shikha_singh_20 and @shreyash_magar . Wha…
GardenPlanner AI: an offline-first gardening planner for Hacktoberfest 2026
GardenPlanner AI is an offline-first gardening planner built for the Hacktoberfest 2026 Open-Source AI Challenge (theme: Touch Grass). The idea is s…
ShadeWindow: A Little Shade. A Better Walk
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built A short walk sounds simple until you start deci…