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Papel Claro: a local Gemma that explains my grandmother's bank letters in plain Portuguese

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Papel Claro: a local Gemma that explains my grandmother's bank letters in plain Portuguese

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge #gemma
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Pawelle: a private pet companion for my friend's cat, powered by a local open model

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝
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Pawelle: a private pet companion for my friend's cat, powered by a local open model

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource
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Study Partner: An AI Study Companion Built for My Wife

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝
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Study Partner: An AI Study Companion Built for My Wife

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Badge Studio: Private, Local AI Sticker Ideas for Any Celebration

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝
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Badge Studio: Private, Local AI Sticker Ideas for Any Celebration

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Canchalant: An Autonomous Candid Photography Assistant & Vector Gallery Powered by Google PaliGemma & MongoDB Atlas

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Canchalant: An Autonomous Candid Photography Assistant & Vector Gallery Powered by Google PaliGemma & MongoDB Atlas

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge
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VoiceDebt: the voice-note inbox for people with good intentions

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝
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ShalyX

VoiceDebt: the voice-note inbox for people with good intentions

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge
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That Bro Who Ate With You Every Day Back in High School

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That Bro Who Ate With You Every Day Back in High School

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Herding Cats: a Raspberry Pi that plans the school-activity drives, with a local LLM

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝
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Herding Cats: a Raspberry Pi that plans the school-activity drives, with a local LLM

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge #python
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The Almirah: a 7B local vision model and 3D cabinet that keeps my friend's family papers off the cloud
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The Almirah: a 7B local vision model and 3D cabinet that keeps my friend's family papers off the cloud

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource
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My friend can't stop buying things at 2am. So I built an AI that can.

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝
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My friend can't stop buying things at 2am. So I built an AI that can.

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge #ai
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StudyLens: I Built an AI That Learns What My Friend Doesn’t Understand

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StudyLens: I Built an AI That Learns What My Friend Doesn’t Understand

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Granny Memories: a ghost writer that lives on my grandma's phone

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Paula

Granny Memories: a ghost writer that lives on my grandma's phone

#weekendchallenge #hf26challenge #gemma #devchallenge
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AllerGuard AI: Protecting My Friends' Severe Food Allergies Offline with Gemma 2, TabPFN & Voice Alerts

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝
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hlldvr

AllerGuard AI: Protecting My Friends' Severe Food Allergies Offline with Gemma 2, TabPFN & Voice Alerts

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource
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Lecture Lens: clearer audio, transcripts and summaries for quiet lectures
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Lecture Lens: clearer audio, transcripts and summaries for quiet lectures

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge
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Storyhouse: I built my grandmother somewhere for her stories to live

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝
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Storyhouse: I built my grandmother somewhere for her stories to live

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #hf26challenge
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