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My Abandoned Cricket Kit Confronted Me. So I Built It a Voice

Himanshu Kumar on July 11, 2026

This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition. What I Built Everyone will tell you about the passions they have. ...
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Nazar Boyko

Letting Gemini pick who speaks, the bag or the game or your younger self, is doing more work than any of the four sponsor integrations. Same confession, three completely different conversations, and the one it lands on is already a judgment about what you're actually grieving. That's the product. The voice and the chain are delivery.

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Himanshu Kumar

Thank you 🙏🏻

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Hima Kartikeya Naidu Ch

Congratulations broohh! Good work 👏!

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Himanshu Kumar

Thanks 🙏🏻

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Reese Gerjekian

Ember is a super cool project Himanshu! I decided to lay my chosen abandoned passion to rest 🕯️

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Himanshu Kumar

Thank you 🙏

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Ishant gupta

It's been a while since you hoisted me up here" got me ngl. love that "lay it to rest" is a real ending, not a fallback. really well done

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Himanshu Kumar

Thank you🙏🏻

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EmberNoGlow

EMBER
good job btw.

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Himanshu Kumar

Haha Nice name isn't it?

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EmberNoGlow • Edited

yeah)

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Vinicius Pereira

Congrats, this is the most original take I've seen in the challenge. The persona selection as diagnosis is the real design move: deciding whether the object, the passion, or your younger self speaks is a judgment about what the person is actually grieving, and putting that judgment in the architecture instead of a prompt is smart. One thought for where it goes next: the on-chain commitment is permanent but nothing ever checks it, so the loop begs for the persona to come back at day 7 and ask how it went. A commitment with a follow-up is a system; without one it's a very beautiful receipt.

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Himanshu Kumar

Nice idea will be adding that up before challenge ends thanks.

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Darshan Raval

Nice

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Himanshu Kumar

Thanks