The latest articles on DEV Community by Arnold Ikpemosi Adeyemi (@ikpemosiarnold). https://dev.to/ikpemosiarnold https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4189406%2Faf052a97-1264-463b-91de-a12f166ebad0.jpg https://dev.to/ikpemosiarnold en Arnold Ikpemosi Adeyemi Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:04:14 +0000 https://dev.to/ikpemosiarnold/come-through-the-lazy-one-in-the-group-built-the-planner-3nba https://dev.to/ikpemosiarnold/come-through-the-lazy-one-in-the-group-built-the-planner-3nba <p>I'm the lazy one in my group of friends. I'm also, somehow, the one who organises outings sometimes.</p> <p>The usual way goes like this. Someone finds an event link or a flyer. It goes to three different group chats. Then come the questions: who's going, who's driving, where is everyone coming from. By the time we sort it out, the event has sold out or the vibe has left.</p> <p>So during Hacktoberfest's "Slow and Steady" week, I built Come Through.</p> <p><strong>Watch the 60-second demo:</strong> <a href="https://ikpemosi.work/blog/come-through" rel="noopener noreferrer">ikpemosi.work/blog/come-through</a></p> <h2> What it does </h2> <ul> <li>Paste an event link, share a flyer picture, or type one sentence like a text. Gemma, an open model, reads it into a plan, and the app marks the bits it guessed so you can check them.</li> <li>The plan lands in your crew. You share one link to the group chat (WhatsApp first, because that's where we actually talk).</li> <li>Friends tap "I'm going" or "Maybe". No app, no account.</li> <li>People coming from nearby areas get grouped into ride pods with a leave-by time and the address to copy. In Lagos the buttons are Bolt and inDrive, since Uber left Nigeria in September.</li> <li>If nobody plans anything, a sloth picks a spot near the middle of the crew, checks the weather, and posts the plan for you. If it's going to rain all afternoon, it skips the week and says why.</li> <li>The day after a linkup, you can make a "We came through" card for your Status.</li> </ul> <p>The demo shows the live app reading a real Eventbrite link (The Amala and Palmwine Festival 2.0, 13 Dec, The Stable Surulere) into a plan.</p> <h2> Why open </h2> <p>A group of friends shouldn't need a subscription to organise a Saturday. The model is open-weights, the code is MIT, and the app shows you which bits it guessed, so nothing gets taken on trust.</p> <h2> Try it </h2> <ul> <li>Live: <a href="https://comethrough.ikpemosi.work" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://comethrough.ikpemosi.work</a> </li> <li>Code (MIT): <a href="https://github.com/IkpemosiArnold/comethrough" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/IkpemosiArnold/comethrough</a> </li> </ul> <p>Built for my crew in Lagos. It works in other cities too; it just knows less about them.</p> opensource ai webdev showdev