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LazyDesk AI: A Smart AI-Powered Document Organizer

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

LazyDesk AI: A Smart AI-Powered Document Organizer

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MediaMend

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

MediaMend

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A buddy that helps you before procrastination gets you.

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

A buddy that helps you before procrastination gets you.

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SlothWatch: I Made a Cloud Browser and a Local Gemma Do My Boring Web Checks

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

SlothWatch: I Made a Cloud Browser and a Local Gemma Do My Boring Web Checks

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Sloth: a lazy local AI tool that tidies files and summarizes chats, built with Gemma, Ollama and GitHub Copilot

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

Sloth: a lazy local AI tool that tidies files and summarizes chats, built with Gemma, Ollama and GitHub Copilot

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I Built an AI Gardener for the Boring Work Every Open-Source Maintainer Avoids

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

I Built an AI Gardener for the Boring Work Every Open-Source Maintainer Avoids

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SlothAuth: Autonomous Overnight Prior-Auth Prep with Local Gemma, LangGraph, and pgvector

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

SlothAuth: Autonomous Overnight Prior-Auth Prep with Local Gemma, LangGraph, and pgvector

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Fault Line

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

Fault Line

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My hours now write themselves every 15 minutes, from a 4B model that never leaves my Mac

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

My hours now write themselves every 15 minutes, from a 4B model that never leaves my Mac

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Sloth Queue — three things, then a nap

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

Sloth Queue — three things, then a nap

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Namakemono なまけもの — I built a local sloth to read my Japanese paperwork so I don't have to

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

Namakemono なまけもの — I built a local sloth to read my Japanese paperwork so I don't have to

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Sloth Ledger: the model has an opinion, the ledger has the numbers

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

Sloth Ledger: the model has an opinion, the ledger has the numbers

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Sleepy Coder: a local assistant that finds the boring fixes in your code

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

Sleepy Coder: a local assistant that finds the boring fixes in your code

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TidyDesk AI: Let Open-Source AI Clean Up Your Messy Folders

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

TidyDesk AI: Let Open-Source AI Clean Up Your Messy Folders

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Lazy Medicine Cabinet: a local Gemma model reads my medicine boxes (nothing leaves the laptop)

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

Lazy Medicine Cabinet: a local Gemma model reads my medicine boxes (nothing leaves the laptop)

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