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🌌 AstroBuddy: Your Personal Night Sky Companion

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission đź’¸

🌌 AstroBuddy: Your Personal Night Sky Companion

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QuantCoach: An Open-Source Alpha Research Copilot for My Quant Friend

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

QuantCoach: An Open-Source Alpha Research Copilot for My Quant Friend

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I built an app that lets 2.5-billion-year-old rocks guilt-trip you. My college rocks are very disappointed in me.

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Submission 🌿

I built an app that lets 2.5-billion-year-old rocks guilt-trip you. My college rocks are very disappointed in me.

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🎙️ I Built a Local AI Transcriber for a Friend Who Works With Too Much Audio and Video

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

🎙️ I Built a Local AI Transcriber for a Friend Who Works With Too Much Audio and Video

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Daily Expense Tracker

Daily Expense Tracker

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Building a Privacy-First AI CRM Assistant for My Friend's Business

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Building a Privacy-First AI CRM Assistant for My Friend's Business

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standup-sloth: a local LLM drafts your standup, and a citation check keeps it honest

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

standup-sloth: a local LLM drafts your standup, and a citation check keeps it honest

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"Bro, I'm Bored": How I Built an Open-Source AI Free-Time Planner for My Roommate

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

"Bro, I'm Bored": How I Built an Open-Source AI Free-Time Planner for My Roommate

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A Local AI System Reliability Agent with Gemma 3 4B

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

A Local AI System Reliability Agent with Gemma 3 4B

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Remembering Why I Invested — I Built Investment Memory for My Dad

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

Remembering Why I Invested — I Built Investment Memory for My Dad

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CrossCheck, a study tool I built for a friend that runs on an open model

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

CrossCheck, a study tool I built for a friend that runs on an open model

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MemoryMate — An AI Memory Assistant Built for a Friend

MemoryMate — An AI Memory Assistant Built for a Friend

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"My local model called a flagged result 'within range', so I stopped letting it do arithmetic"

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

"My local model called a flagged result 'within range', so I stopped letting it do arithmetic"

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Samajh — a reader for the letters my mother couldn't read

Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝

Samajh — a reader for the letters my mother couldn't read

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Prove It Outside

Prove It Outside

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