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Join the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Side Hustle! $2,550 in Prizes Across 18 Winners.

Jem on October 12, 2026

Week 2 of our five Hacktoberfest DEV Challenges starts today! Running through October 18, the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 2 gives ...
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Vicente G. Reyes •

That Gemma featured category will cost $190/month on render. haiyaaa

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Fayaz • • Edited

Okay! Cool!

If someone pays me for a product or service I built, that means I get paid by DEV too!

You see what I did there? It's called double or nothing 🤣🥰

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alex •

if you claim a dev payout counts as a separate sale, how are you handling the platform fee and tax reporting for that double count?

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alex •

building an AI side‑hustle in a week will hit cold‑start latency on any serverless inference layer, how are you planning to keep inference costs down? also, what's your approach to model weight licensing when you open source the code

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Shivam •

Best use of .tech domain is interesting.

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Elev 💥 •

@heyitsjem nice one

I will be showing up

Yet I haven't been contacted on my winnings it been days now

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文莱 •

一周内搭建一个人工智能副业项目,任何无服务器推理层都会面临冷启动延迟问题,您打算如何降低推理成本?另外,当您开

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Michael · Noah Carter •

verry good

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ff leo •

Cool!

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elias-devv •

really neat that you scoped the week‑2 task as a tiny async rust service for model inference, that keeps latency low and the binary size minimal

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ReyLin •

I want a cursor-code !

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wu qingbao •

good