Hacktoberfest 2026 Challenge

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

Dhruv Jani

Oct 21

I Built slothd: A Local-First, Offline-Capable AI Daemon That Patiently Organizes Your Messy Workspace

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource #gemma

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

Thomas Bonnet

Oct 21

Stuck in the same dev.to topics? An open model fixed it.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #javascript

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

Paul Horton

Oct 21

I Got Tired of Coming Into My Lab To Check the Pressure of My Cryocooler so I Built a Tool To Do It for Me

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #tigerdata #githubcopilot

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

Robina Mirbahar for Google Developer Experts

Oct 21

SlothSRE (NapOps): An Overnight Gemma 4 & ADK Agent That Compresses 418 Lines of 3 AM Alerts into a 2-Line Morning Digest

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #gemma #opensource

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

Self-Correcting Systems

Oct 22

I Wanted a Guardian. I Kept Building Things I Had to Babysit.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource #agents

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

Ayush Gupta

Oct 22

Bill & Document Sloth: A Local-First AI Paperwork Manager with Gemma & TabPFN

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #opensource

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

Dev3 ^~^

Oct 22

I built an AI that tells you to leave the leaves alone

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource #gemma

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

Dinuka Ekanayake

Oct 22

I Built a Sloth That Organizes My Files While I Do Nothing 🦥 (With Local Open-Source AI)

#devchallenge #hf26challenge

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

Farhan Mallik

Oct 22

SlothOps 🦥⚡: I Built an Open-Weight AI Agent That Rewards Developer Laziness (Hacktoberfest 2026 Week 3)

#hf26challenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #ai

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

Sufian

Oct 22

Messimo: An Open Source Local AI File Organizer Powered by Gemma and Ollama

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #gemma #opensource

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

stephen487

Oct 22

I tested my AI safety filter 400 times. It flagged my own innocent prompts 1 in 40. published: false

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #opensource

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

Elias Shieh

Oct 22

My alarm won't let me snooze if I'd be late

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #machinelearning #opensource

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

Anirudha Basu Thakur

Oct 22

SlothDesk — Local-First AI Downloads Organizer: Less sorting. More living.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #opensource

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

Ankith M

Oct 22

A failed UPI payment owes you ₹100 a day. I built the sloth that waits to collect it.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai

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

nouman004

Oct 22

SlothPlan: a local AI that tells you how long you can rest before the deadline

#devchallenge #hf26challenge

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