Hacktoberfest 2026 Challenge

Clever projects using AI to force offline breaks

Jem for The DEV Team

Oct 16

Congrats to the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Touch Grass Winners!

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

xbill

Oct 16

Renting Out One T4 to Three Customers: Gemma 4, vLLM Multi-LoRA and a Rust Gateway

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Advik Divekar

Oct 16

What if your whole marketing team fit on a laptop, and finished in 55 seconds?

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

vigneshwar

Oct 16

The 90-day window every medical shop misses: I built ShelfMitra to catch it, in Tamil, Hindi and English

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Sergei Parfenov

Oct 15

It caught "partner" "pareja" in an IRS rule and missed "return" "devolución": an offline MT checker for translators

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Ayush Gupta

Oct 16

I Built KhataSnap: Turning Handwritten Shopkeeper Ledgers into a Private AI-Powered Digital Khata

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Tejas Patil

Oct 16

Your phone is not an RTX 4090. This open model knows that.

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Ridwan Yoga Suryantara

Oct 16

Building Fuenzer Sports: An AI Tournament Prediction Side Hustle Powered by Open-Weight Models

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Melwin Siril Joel V

Oct 16

I Built a Receipt Scanner for Myself: 15 Bills, Zero Wrong Numbers

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Himanshu Kumar

Oct 16

Briefstamp: a receipt for the website handoff

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Saurabh Singh

Oct 16

Dukaan Helper: catalog messages for small shops, powered by open-source Gemma

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

PARITOSH

Oct 16

LedgerLocal - your receipts never leave your laptop

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

PRUTHVI RAJ G

Oct 16

Open List: AI Product Listing Generator for Small Sellers & Artisans (Powered by Gemma & MongoDB Atlas)

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Riaz Aslam

Oct 16

DukaanAI: A Local AI Business Assistant for Pakistan's Small Shops 🇵🇰

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Bipul Chamoli

Oct 16

"red label adha kg 2 box": an offline WhatsApp order reader for Indian shops that asks before it guesses

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