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SlothMate: The Slow & Steady Open-Source AI Agent Harness That Rewards Pure Laziness

TUMMURI NAGA VEERA VENKATA SAIRAM NITANP — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:23:52 +0000

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady

🦥 What I Built

Today, October 20, is International Sloth Day. Sloths have mastered the art of living: they move at their own rhythm, conserve biological energy, take only 6 breaths per minute, and even help moderate DEV.

I built SlothMate: an open-source AI life-automation harness dedicated to extreme laziness. It does the everyday work you dread so you can sit back, rest, and conserve your ATP.

SlothMate tackles the 4 biggest energy drains of modern digital life:

SlothDistill (Group Chat & Slack Distiller + 1-Tap Ghostwriter): Takes chaotic 50-message WhatsApp family threads, Slack incident storms, or roommate chore debates, and distills them into a 2-sentence summary of what actually matters. Then, it generates 3 pre-written, 1-click lazy replies (Ultra-Lazy, Polite Deflection, and Diplomatic Consensus) so you never have to type out replies manually again.
SlothChef (Fridge Snap to Lazy 3-Ingredient Meals): Solves the agony of standing with the fridge door open wondering what to eat. Upload a photo or list what's in your fridge, and SlothMate generates minimal-prep, 1-pan or microwave meals scored by an Effort Index (e.g. 1/10 Effort, 1 mug to wash), plus an automated grocery list for missing staples.
SlothTidier (Desktop & Downloads Clutter Cleaner): Takes the disorganized mess of screenshots, invoices, and random downloads you've been avoiding for months, categorizes them cleanly, standardizes dates, and generates a 1-click PowerShell / Bash script that cleans your computer in 1 second.
SlothSanctuary (Offline Wind-Down & Ambient Soundscape): A true restorative space featuring an offline bedtime story generator ("The Mossy Canopy of Manuel Antonio"), a visual breathing orb tuned to the true biological cadence of sloths (6 breaths per minute), and a real-time procedural ambient soundscape mixer (Tropical Rain, Canopy Wind, Lo-Fi Brown Noise, Zen Chimes) synthesized entirely in the browser.
The Sloth Meter & Sloth Mode: Tracks estimated minutes saved, biological Joules conserved, and awkward replies avoided—paired with a "Sloth Mode" toggle that slows UI animations down to a leisurely, calming pace.

🎥 Demo

Live Deployed App on Render: https://slothmate-the-slow-steady-ai-agent-suite.onrender.com
Interactive UI Preview: Features Sloan the Sloth in a lush rainforest glassmorphic dashboard with instant presets, procedural Web Audio generation, and local AI execution.

(Tip: You can try all 4 modules instantly with the built-in 1-click sample presets for Family Chats, Slack Incidents, Fridge Photos, and Messy Downloads!)

💻 Code

The complete source code is open source and ready to run locally or deploy to Render:

624183-NITAP / SlothMate-The-Slow-Steady-AI-Agent-Suite

🦥 SlothMate: The Slow & Steady AI Agent Harness

Built for International Sloth Day & the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge (Week 3: Slow and Steady)
Channeling our inner sloth to automate what we dread, conserve biological energy, and run 100% open-weight AI locally and on Render.

🌐 Live Deployed App: https://slothmate-the-slow-steady-ai-agent-suite.onrender.com

🌿 Overview

Tomorrow, October 20, is International Sloth Day. Sloths have it figured out: they move at their own pace, conserve energy, take only 6 breaths per minute, and never overcomplicate life.

SlothMate is an open-source AI agent suite designed to reward pure laziness. It automates the everyday digital tasks you keep putting off—distilling 200-message chaotic group chats into 2 sentences with 1-click ghostwritten replies, transforming messy fridge photos into 3-minute 1-pan microwave meals, automatically tidying messy desktop files with 1-click scripts, and soothing you to sleep with offline procedural ambient soundscapes.

Most importantly, open-source AI is…

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Quick Local Run:

git clone https://github.com/624183-NITAP/SlothMate-The-Slow-Steady-AI-Agent-Suite.git
cd SlothMate-The-Slow-Steady-AI-Agent-Suite
npm install
npm start
# Visit http://localhost:3000

🛠️ How I Built It

SlothMate is architected from the ground up around open-source AI and client-edge execution:

Client-Side Open Model Inference with Transformers.js (ONNX / WebGPU): Using @huggingface/transformers, users can run open-weight text analysis and classification directly inside their browser via WebAssembly or WebGPU. No network requests are made, and inference happens completely on your device.
Open-Weight Server Engine (Qwen 2.5 & Llama 3.2): The Node.js Express backend connects effortlessly to open-weight models like Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct, and mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 via Hugging Face endpoints or a local Ollama instance (localhost:11434).
Resilient Zero-Lag Heuristic Open Harness: To guarantee that anyone can use SlothMate even with zero API keys and zero model downloads (e.g., on a flight or slow connection), the harness includes an intelligent local fallback agent that processes inputs with 0.04-second latency.
Procedural Web Audio API Synthesizer: Rather than streaming heavy MP3 files over a cellular connection, SlothSanctuary synthesizes brown noise buffers, pink noise rain bandpass filters, and LFO wind modulations on the fly using the browser's native Web Audio API. 100% offline, zero audio assets required!
Render Ready: Packaged with render.yaml, an Express 5 architecture, and a /health endpoint to deploy effortlessly on Render's free tier with a tiny memory footprint (<50MB RAM).

🌍 Why Does Open Innovation Matter?

When building an application centered on automating personal life and reducing cognitive load, open innovation isn't just a nice-to-have—it is the foundational requirement:

Absolute Privacy for Personal Life: Our group chats contain intimate family moments, inside jokes, and medical updates. Our desktops contain paystubs, tax receipts, and confidential work files. Sending these private data streams to a closed corporate API (where logs may be inspected or used for model retraining) is a privacy nightmare. With open-source models running locally via Transformers.js or Ollama, your personal data never leaves your machine.
Works Everywhere, Offline & Off-Grid: Closed AI requires an uninterrupted internet connection and a payment method. SlothMate's open architecture can run on a laptop in airplane mode, a cabin in the woods, or a train with spotty Wi-Fi.
Zero Cost & Freedom from Subscriptions: Why pay $20/month for an API subscription just to summarize a group chat or clean a folder? Open weights let developers and users run state-of-the-art intelligence at $0 recurring cost forever.
Model Swappability & Community Ownership: If a closed model provider alters their system prompt, changes safety filters, or deprecates an endpoint, your software breaks. With open weights, we can choose the best model for the job—swapping from Llama to Qwen to Mistral in one line of configuration—or fine-tune a model specifically on sloth-like brevity.

🦥 The Lazy Payoff

How much effort does SlothMate actually save?

~48 Minutes per Day Saved:
- Reading a 100-message chat: Saved 12 minutes.
- Deciding what to cook from a chaotic fridge: Saved 15 minutes of staring into the fridge.
- Manually renaming and sorting 30 desktop files: Saved 18 minutes.
- Writing polite excuses to invitations: Saved 3 minutes of cognitive guilt.
Biological Joules Conserved: ~1,240 Joules of physical and mental energy redirected towards napping, reading, or hanging from a branch.
Awkward Texts Avoided: Infinite. With calibrated replies like "Whatever the group decides works for me!", you achieve social diplomacy with 1 click.

🏆 Prize Categories

Primary Track: Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady

Happy International Sloth Day! Take a deep breath (5 seconds in, 5 seconds out), close those 47 open tabs, and let SlothMate handle the rest. 🦥🌿

VaultLedger AI: The 100% Local, Air-Gapped Freelance Financial & Invoice Intelligence OS (Zero Cloud Data Leakage)

TUMMURI NAGA VEERA VENKATA SAIRAM NITANP — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 02:32:55 +0000

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle

What I Built

The Problem: Freelancers Are Trapped Between Privacy and Productivity

If you are a freelancer, independent software consultant, or solo creative, managing your finances is a weekly headache. You juggle PDF client invoices, messy restaurant receipts, software subscription bills, and subcontractor invoices.

To make matters worse, freelancers face two huge obstacles:

The NDA & Confidentiality Trap: Independent contractors frequently sign strict Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) with enterprise clients. Uploading client invoices, hourly billing rates, proprietary deliverables, and bank account numbers to third-party closed cloud APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic) or multi-tenant cloud SaaS tools is a blatant compliance and contractual breach.
The "Micro-SaaS Margin Bleed": Existing receipt scanners and bookkeeping tools (QuickBooks, Expensify, Dext) charge $30–$60 every month, limit the number of documents you can upload, and charge per-seat fees that drain your profits.

The Solution: VaultLedger AI

VaultLedger AI is an air-gapped financial operating system built specifically for freelancers and solopreneurs. It runs 100% locally on your laptop using open-weight AI (Llama 3.2 3B via Ollama).

With VaultLedger AI:

Zero Cloud Leakage: Financial documents never leave your laptop. Not a single packet of client data is sent across the internet.
Smart Document Parsing: Drop an invoice, receipt, or raw text snippet, and local Llama 3.2 extracts structured financial details (Vendor, Dates, Invoice #, Subtotal, Tax, Total, and granular itemized line items).
IRS Schedule C Tax Write-Off Auditor: Automatically categorizes expenses (Software, Section 179 Hardware, 50% Business Meals, 1099 Subcontractors) and provides a legally grounded Tax Rationale explaining why each expense qualifies as a deduction.
Client Invoicing & AI Payment Chaser: Tracks accounts receivable and drafts customized, polite, professional, or firm follow-up emails for past-due client balances with zero cloud token charges.
Instant Tax Schedule Export: One-click export to IRS Schedule C-formatted CSV or backup JSON.

Who Would Pay For It?

Freelance Software Engineers & Designers: Who sign enterprise NDAs and cannot upload billing records to the cloud.
Solo Consultants & Agency Owners: Who want to avoid $400+/year in recurring SaaS fees and need audit-ready tax write-off classification.
Digital Nomads & Remote Workers: Who need to organize receipts and send invoices mid-flight or off-grid without an internet connection.

Freelancers would gladly pay a $49–$79 one-time license (or $9/month self-hosted subscription) for unlimited, completely private, offline bookkeeping.

🎥 Demo

624183-NITAP / VaultLedger-AI

🛡️ VaultLedger AI — The 100% Local, Air-Gapped Freelance Financial & Invoice Intelligence OS

Built for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge (Week 2: Side Hustle)
Theme: Build something with open-weight models or open-source AI that someone would actually pay for.

⚡ What is VaultLedger AI?

VaultLedger AI is an air-gapped financial operating system designed specifically for independent freelancers, solopreneurs, and micro-consultancies. It runs entirely on local open-weight models (Llama 3.2 via Ollama) to ingest, categorize, audit, and extract structured financial records from messy invoices, receipts, and client bills—without a single byte of sensitive financial data ever leaving your laptop.

Unlike traditional SaaS accounting software (Dext, Expensify, QuickBooks) that costs $30–$60/month and uploads your confidential client invoices to public cloud servers, VaultLedger AI runs 100% offline, costs $0.00 in API fees, and guarantees zero data leakage.

💡 The Problem & Why Someone Would Pay For

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Local Application URL: http://localhost:3000

VaultLedger AI features a dark glassmorphic interface with an emerald security aesthetic:

1. Real-Time Air-Gapped Dashboard & KPIs

Displays real-time connection status to local Ollama (llama3.2:latest), Gross Invoiced Revenue, Total Business Expenses, IRS Deductible Write-Offs, and Estimated Self-Employment Tax Savings (at 30%).

2. Audited Ledger & Instant CSV Export

Search and filter across all processed transactions. One-click export generates an RFC 4180-compliant IRS Schedule C CSV mapped directly to lines 11, 13, 18, and 24b.

💻 Code

📂 Full Source Code: https://github.com/624183-NITAP/VaultLedger-AI

The project is structured with a local Node.js Express backend mediating communication with Ollama, and a lightweight Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS frontend.

1. Local AI Payment Chaser Generator

// server.js - Contextual payment collection email drafter
app.post('/api/draft-email', async (req, res) => {
  const { invoice, tone = 'gentle', daysOverdue = 14, model = 'llama3.2:latest' } = req.body;

  const prompt = `You are an expert freelance business advocate. Write a polite, effective, professional payment follow-up email from a freelancer to a client for an overdue invoice.
Details:
- Client / Company Name: ${invoice.vendor_or_client}
- Invoice #: ${invoice.invoice_number}
- Amount Due: ${invoice.currency}${invoice.total}
- Days Overdue: ${daysOverdue} days
- Tone: ${tone} (Options: gentle reminder, professional follow-up, firm final notice)

Return ONLY valid JSON:
{
  "subject": "Clear email subject line",
  "email_body": "Complete email text formatted with salutation, body paragraphs, and professional sign-off"
}`;

  const ollamaResponse = await callOllama('/api/generate', {
    model: model,
    prompt: prompt,
    format: 'json',
    stream: false,
    options: { temperature: 0.3 }
  }, 30000);

  const result = JSON.parse(ollamaResponse.response);
  res.json({ success: true, email: result });
});

🛠️ How I Built It

1. Open-Source AI Stack

Open-Weight Model: Llama 3.2 3B (llama3.2:latest), Meta's state-of-the-art compact multilingual model. It runs comfortably on consumer hardware with 2GB RAM footprint (quantized to Q4_K_M GGUF format).
Inference Harness: Ollama (v0.40.3) running locally via HTTP on http://127.0.0.1:11434. Ollama provides high-throughput CPU/GPU acceleration, memory-mapped weights, and structured JSON output mode (format: 'json').
Prompt Architecture: Strict JSON schema prompting with few-shot financial classification context and IRS Schedule C tax guidelines embedded into system instructions.

2. Web Stack & Design System

Core: Node.js and Express backend providing an air-gapped local mediator with persistent on-disk JSON storage (data/ledger.json).
Styling: 100% Vanilla CSS3 using custom CSS design tokens, glassmorphism, responsive grid layouts, and typography powered by Google Fonts (Outfit and Plus Jakarta Sans).
Zero Third-Party Telemetry: No Google Analytics, no tracking pixels, no external CDNs that could leak metadata.

🌍 Why Does Open Innovation Matter?

Why does open innovation matter for what I built? What did an open-source approach make possible that a closed API wouldn't?

1. True Privacy and NDA Compliance

When a freelancer works for an enterprise client or healthcare startup, they routinely sign agreements forbidding the upload of project details to public cloud AI services. Because VaultLedger AI uses an open-weight model running locally, not a single character leaves the computer. It gives freelancers the superpowers of AI without putting their contracts in jeopardy.

2. $0.00 Marginal Cost Per Document

Closed APIs charge per token. A busy freelancer or small agency auditing 200 invoices, receipts, and line items a month would burn through $30–$50/month in API tokens and SaaS subscription fees ($360–$600/year). With open-source Llama 3.2 running on the laptop, the marginal cost of running 1 or 10,000 extra extractions is literally $0.00.

3. Freedom From Vendor Lock-In

Closed APIs regularly deprecate model checkpoints, change pricing tiers, alter moderation filters, or suffer outages. With open-source AI, the model belongs to the developer and user forever. If you want to swap Llama 3.2 for Mistral, Gemma 2, or a domain-specialized tax fine-tune, you can change the model parameter in one second without rewriting a line of business logic.

4. True Offline Portability

Freelancers work on planes, in train cars, and at remote cabins without stable internet. Closed cloud APIs fail instantly the moment the Wi-Fi drops. Because VaultLedger AI runs locally, you can categorize a year's worth of business receipts at 35,000 feet with Wi-Fi disabled.

🤖 My Agent Session

This entire project was planned, designed, coded, and tested in collaboration with Antigravity (Google DeepMind's advanced agentic coding assistant).

What the Agent Accomplished:

Environment Discovery: Automatically detected existing local system capabilities (Node.js 24, Python 3.13, Ollama 0.40.3, and local llama3.2:latest weights).
Architecture Design: Structured the air-gapped Express backend, Ollama JSON schema bridge, and deterministic fallback engine.
Frontend Engineering: Crafted a high-end glassmorphic UI adhering to modern web design standards (dark slate/emerald palette, responsive KPI grid, tab navigation, accessible controls).
End-to-End Browser Testing: Launched an autonomous browser subagent to interact with the running web application, test invoice extraction, test search filtering, test the AI Payment Chaser, verify IRS tax audit advice, and capture screenshots and WebP session recordings.

🏆 Prize Categories

Main Track: Week 2 — Side Hustle (Build something with open-source AI that someone would actually pay for).
Local AI & Edge Deployment: Demonstrating zero-cost, private, air-gapped local inference using Meta's Llama 3.2 open-weight model on consumer laptops.

bird caller recorder and offline identifier

TUMMURI NAGA VEERA VENKATA SAIRAM NITANP — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:56:33 +0000

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass

What I Built

I built Bird Caller, a beautiful offline web application designed to get you out into nature. It listens to your microphone and identifies bird songs, wildlife, and even weather elements (like rain, streams, or wind) in real-time.

When you discover something cool, you can click the + button to save it to your Field Journal—a local logbook that tracks your encounters.

The coolest part? It uses open-weight models running entirely in your browser. Once you load the app, you don't need an internet connection to use it. This means you can hike deep into the woods, far away from any cell towers, and still identify the nature sounds around you!

It's built for hikers, birdwatchers, and anyone curious about the wildlife in their local parks.

Code

624183-NITAP / bird-caller

🌲 Bird & Nature Caller

An offline-first Progressive Web App (PWA) built for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge (Week 1: Touch Grass).

Bird Caller listens to your microphone and identifies bird songs, wildlife, and weather elements (like rain, streams, or wind) in real-time. Because it runs an open-weight model entirely in your browser using Transformers.js, it works 100% offline—perfect for taking into the deep woods where there's no cell service!

✨ Features

Real-Time Classification: Identifies nature sounds around you within seconds.
Privacy-First & Offline: Inference runs directly in your browser. No audio data is ever sent to a server.
Field Journal: Click the + button next to any identified sound to log it in your persistent offline Field Journal.
Smart Filtering: The underlying model (AST) recognizes 527 classes, but we filter the predictions specifically for birds, insects, amphibians, and weather.

🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend…

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How I Built It

I used React (via Vite) for the frontend and integrated Transformers.js (@xenova/transformers) to run machine learning inference locally in the browser.

The project uses the Xenova/ast-finetuned-audioset-10-10-0.4593 open-weight model, an Audio Spectrogram Transformer that can classify hundreds of sounds. I wrote a custom classification filter in the worker script to narrow down the model's 527 classes to specifically look for birds, weather, insects, and water elements, turning a generic model into a nature guide.

To keep the UI buttery smooth, the heavy lifting is done inside a Web Worker. Because Transformers.js caches the model in the browser using the Cache API, the app only needs the internet the very first time it loads. After that, it's a completely offline experience. The Field Journal uses localStorage to ensure your findings persist even if you lose signal.

Why Does Open Innovation Matter?

Open innovation is the core enabler for this project! If I had used a closed API for audio classification, this app would be utterly useless on a remote trail without cell service. Because I used an open-weight model running on a local open-source inference engine, the audio data never leaves the user's device, preserving their privacy and allowing the app to work 100% offline. It also costs $0 to run inference, meaning I don't have to worry about API bills if the app gets popular.

Open AI models empower us to build tools that augment our physical world without tying us to a server rack.

Prize Categories

Touch Grass

StudyBuddy: an AI study companion for my friend, built on Llama 3.2

TUMMURI NAGA VEERA VENKATA SAIRAM NITANP — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 04:26:08 +0000

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend*

What I Built

Ajay is a university student who often struggles to consolidate lecture notes into actionable study material. Before every exam, they spend hours just trying to come up with potential practice questions, instead of actually learning the concepts.

StudyBuddy AI solves this problem. It’s a clean, phone-friendly web app where they can upload their course notes and instantly get a set of targeted exam questions sorted by difficulty (2-mark short answers, 5-mark detailed explanations, and Viva/Interview style questions).

Each generated question comes with a hidden suggested answer that they can reveal to test their knowledge. There's also an AI chat feature for instant tutoring on difficult topics, and a flashcard generator to help memorize key definitions.

Demo

Live / Video: Run in your local system as Llama 3.2 does all the heavy lifting. It reads the uploaded text and runs locally through Ollama. Nothing leaves the laptop: no API key, no cloud, no cost.

Here's an example of real output from StudyBuddy AI when notes on "Operating Systems" are uploaded:

📘 Q1. What is the difference between a process and a thread? (2 Marks) (Hover to reveal) A process is an independent program in execution with its own memory space, while a thread is a lightweight unit of execution within a process that shares the same memory space.

📙 Q2. Explain the concept of Virtual Memory and its advantages. (5 Marks) (Hover to reveal) Virtual Memory is a memory management technique that creates the illusion of a large contiguous memory for users, hiding the physical memory limitations. It works by mapping virtual addresses to physical addresses using a page table. Advantages include running programs larger than physical memory, higher degree of multiprogramming, and less I/O for swapping.

Code

624183-NITAP / StudyBuddy-AI

StudyBuddy AI

This project was built for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend

What I Built

I built StudyBuddy AI, a local, privacy-first AI study companion designed to help my friend prepare for their upcoming university exams.

My friend often struggles to find good practice questions or consolidate their lecture notes into actionable study material. They spend hours just trying to come up with potential exam questions instead of actually studying the concepts. StudyBuddy AI solves this by allowing them to upload their course notes and automatically generating targeted exam questions (short 2-mark questions, detailed 5-mark questions, and even Viva/Interview style questions). It also includes an AI chat feature for instant tutoring on difficult topics, and a flashcard generator to help memorize key definitions.

How I Built It

The project is a modern web application built with:

Frontend: Next.js (React) and Tailwind CSS for a sleek, responsive…

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StudyBuddy AI 📚 Upload your notes, and StudyBuddy generates your exam paper. It also acts as an on-demand tutor.

Llama 3.2 does all the heavy lifting. It reads the uploaded text and runs locally through Ollama. Nothing leaves the laptop: no API key, no cloud, no cost.

Run it (2 commands)

bash
ollama run llama3.2
npm run dev
Then open http://localhost:3000.

How I Built It

Llama 3.2 runs the show. Locally, it’s Llama 3.2 running through Ollama. The model handles all the reasoning, question generation, and tutoring. Because it's a local model, there's no fear of rate limits or API bills, which is perfect for a student budget.

Streaming the JSON. Generating detailed 5-mark exam questions takes time. Waiting 20 seconds for a blank screen to load is a bad user experience. To fix this, I implemented an NDJSON streaming parser in Next.js. The server streams chunks from Ollama in real-time, extracts completed JSON objects using regex, and streams the UI components back to the browser progressively. The question cards pop onto the screen one by one as they are generated.

Next.js & Tailwind. The frontend is built on Next.js (App Router) and styled with Tailwind CSS to give it a sleek, modern, "dark mode" aesthetic that's easy on the eyes during late-night study sessions.

Why Does Open Innovation Matter?

Their study material stays with them. Course notes, personal study flaws, and academic weaknesses shouldn't necessarily be shipped off to a third-party server to be used as training data. With an open-weight model running locally, it never leaves the laptop. There's no vendor, no retention policy to read, and no account to make.

It's completely free to run. Locally there's no API key and no per-request bill, so my friend can generate as many practice tests as they want without thinking about it.

I control the whole pipeline. Because I own the inference call, I could tweak the prompts to strictly return JSON without markdown, and enforce my own deterministic streaming parser to handle the UI. A closed chatbot gives you an answer on their UI terms; open weights let you build the exact experience you want.

Prize Categories

Local AI Hero
Open Source Innovator

hello everyonee

TUMMURI NAGA VEERA VENKATA SAIRAM NITANP — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:04:45 +0000

i am sairam from andhra pradesh ,india.
i am new to community and happy to be a part of dev.