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Cubby: a home daycare talks through its day, Gemma writes the log, and code catches 37 of 37 planted licensing problems

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

Cubby: a home daycare talks through its day, Gemma writes the log, and code catches 37 of 37 planted licensing problems

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Voice Order Taker

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

Voice Order Taker

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ShutterHunt : A Photographic Quest That Gets You Outside

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

ShutterHunt : A Photographic Quest That Gets You Outside

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Leadfinder: evidence-backed WhatsApp pitches for Lagos freelancers, on Gemma for $0.32 per 1,000 leads

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

Leadfinder: evidence-backed WhatsApp pitches for Lagos freelancers, on Gemma for $0.32 per 1,000 leads

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MedPort: a private medical portfolio that reads your lab reports on your own laptop

MedPort: a private medical portfolio that reads your lab reports on your own laptop

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I fine-tuned Qwen3.6 on Tinker to read my neighbours’ khata: 98% credit/payment accuracy for $0.38

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

I fine-tuned Qwen3.6 on Tinker to read my neighbours’ khata: 98% credit/payment accuracy for $0.38

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I Got Tired of Explaining Bugs, So I Built note'd

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

I Got Tired of Explaining Bugs, So I Built note'd

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Perforvisor: a 5★ review said "Needs to be more clean." Open models caught it.

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

Perforvisor: a 5★ review said "Needs to be more clean." Open models caught it.

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SpotWise: a gold-saver's backtester where the AI never does the maths

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

SpotWise: a gold-saver's backtester where the AI never does the maths

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I stopped asking AI to count. Now it catches 95.6% of the mistakes in crochet patterns, on a laptop

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

I stopped asking AI to count. Now it catches 95.6% of the mistakes in crochet patterns, on a laptop

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KaamSetu: A Simple Way to Connect Farmers and Workers

KaamSetu: A Simple Way to Connect Farmers and Workers

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SoloOps AI: An Open-Weight AI Expense Agent for Freelancers

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

SoloOps AI: An Open-Weight AI Expense Agent for Freelancers

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

Clever projects using AI to force offline breaks

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

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ScopeProof: An evidence-first answer to “one more thing”

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

ScopeProof: An evidence-first answer to “one more thing”

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FixFlow: Small Spaces. Clear Requests.

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

FixFlow: Small Spaces. Clear Requests.

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