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Reviving a 12K+ Star Abandoned Library: toastr-next v3 🍞

Divyesh2d ago • 6 min read

Reviving a 12K+ Star Abandoned Library: toastr-next v3 🍞

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I...

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NeuralHats: I Put Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats on Local LLMs Using Gemma 4

Giorgi Kobaidze4d ago • 9 min read

NeuralHats: I Put Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats on Local LLMs Using Gemma 4

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built ...

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Gemma 4 challenge inspired me to build my first app!

Klaudia Grzondziel5d ago • 4 min read

Gemma 4 challenge inspired me to build my first app!

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 It started with a real need....

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Vestige: A Gemma 4 Brain Tracker That Won't Blow Smoke Up Your Ass

Ashley Childress4d ago • 15 min read

Vestige: A Gemma 4 Brain Tracker That Won't Blow Smoke Up Your Ass

An ADHD brain tracker built on Gemma 4 (E4B + EmbeddingGemma 300M) that observes and never grades. N...

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A 100% Private, Local AI Resume Optimizer with Google Gemma 4: How I Built ResuMate!

deeptej (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ4d ago • 9 min read

A 100% Private, Local AI Resume Optimizer with Google Gemma 4: How I Built ResuMate!

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 See why I chose the Gemma 4 E2...

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Your Inbox Knows Too Much: Parsli for the Privacy Paranoid

Olga Braginskaya5d ago • 4 min read

Your Inbox Knows Too Much: Parsli for the Privacy Paranoid

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built Every fe...

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Hermes Mentor — A Local AI Agent That Gets You Out of Tutorial Hell

Aditya2d ago • 5 min read

Hermes Mentor — A Local AI Agent That Gets You Out of Tutorial Hell

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Build With Hermes Agent What I...

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I built a local document Q&A tool around Gemma 4 E4B's 128K context — five days, no RAG, no cloud

Yash Kumar Saini5d ago • 7 min read

I built a local document Q&A tool around Gemma 4 E4B's 128K context — five days, no RAG, no cloud

Five days, an 8 GB laptop GPU, and a stubborn belief that for the kind of documents I actually read....

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Copilot helped me deploy my passion project to the App Store

Harita Duggirala1d ago • 4 min read

Copilot helped me deploy my passion project to the App Store

What I Built I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with technology. In college, I...

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Github Copilot helped us cut down 50-75% time in our e-commerce business

Marcus Ang3d ago • 3 min read

Github Copilot helped us cut down 50-75% time in our e-commerce business

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built A couple of....

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Building an Offline-First Bushfire Response Platform With Hermes Agent

ujja1d ago • 14 min read

Building an Offline-First Bushfire Response Platform With Hermes Agent

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Build With Hermes Agent What I...

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From a College Hackathon Idea to an Unfinished Developer Dream — Reviving AlgoPair 🚀

Hrishika Malviya6d ago • 4 min read

From a College Hackathon Idea to an Unfinished Developer Dream — Reviving AlgoPair 🚀

GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge Submission There’s a very different kind of nostalgia in opening....

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The Brutal Reality of Running Gemma 4 Locally

shogun 4446d ago • 8 min read

The Brutal Reality of Running Gemma 4 Locally

This is a submission for the Google I/O 2026 Writing Challenge "At Google I/O 2026, Google made...

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I Ditched Cloud LLMs for Gemma 4 4B: A DevOps Engineer's 48-Hour Reality Check

Asmae 4d ago • 6 min read

I Ditched Cloud LLMs for Gemma 4 4B: A DevOps Engineer's 48-Hour Reality Check

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 I Ditched Cloud LLMs.....

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UXRay: I Built an AI That Roasts Your UI Like a Senior Designer Would

pulkitgovrani6d ago • 4 min read

UXRay: I Built an AI That Roasts Your UI Like a Senior Designer Would

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built UXRay...

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Hermes Agent Changed How I Think About Execution Boundaries

Hemapriya Kanagala3d ago • 8 min read

Hermes Agent Changed How I Think About Execution Boundaries

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Write About Hermes Agent TL;DR Traditional.....

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Hermes Agent ran overnight and I woke up to a $47 bill — so I built a kill-switch

Orvi Das2d ago • 5 min read

Hermes Agent ran overnight and I woke up to a $47 bill — so I built a kill-switch

I gave Hermes Agent a research task before bed and woke up to a $47 bill. So I built a pre-flight ki...

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🛡️ PromptGuard: I Built a Local AI Privacy Firewall That Sanitizes Your Prompts Before They Leave Your Machine

Nizzad4d ago • 9 min read

🛡️ PromptGuard: I Built a Local AI Privacy Firewall That Sanitizes Your Prompts Before They Leave Your Machine

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 Every time you paste sensitive.....

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From Govhack Win to Something That Actually Matters

ujja5d ago • 13 min read

From Govhack Win to Something That Actually Matters

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built Project.....

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I stress-tested Gemma 4 E4B's 128K context on a laptop GPU — recall is great, prefill is not

Yash Kumar Saini5d ago • 7 min read

I stress-tested Gemma 4 E4B's 128K context on a laptop GPU — recall is great, prefill is not

Thursday night I let a benchmark run while I slept. By Friday morning Gemma 4 E4B had answered...

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How the 80/20 Rule and GitHub Copilot Saved My Abandoned App From Code Graveyard

Alphonse Kazadi 2d ago • 3 min read

How the 80/20 Rule and GitHub Copilot Saved My Abandoned App From Code Graveyard

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built AlkaFocus is...

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Everyone's Talking About Gemini 3.5 Flash. The Real Story at Google I/O 2026 Was a Skill File.

Sreejit Pradhan5d ago • 6 min read

Everyone's Talking About Gemini 3.5 Flash. The Real Story at Google I/O 2026 Was a Skill File.

This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge Everyone walked away from Google I/O.....

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The Project I Couldn’t Finish 2 Years Ago - Notebook for ChatGPT

Saurabh Raj1d ago • 3 min read

The Project I Couldn’t Finish 2 Years Ago - Notebook for ChatGPT

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built Two years....

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Google I/O 2026: AI Built an OS in 12 Hours. I Spent Mine Sorting Screenshots. 🤦

Aabhas Sao4d ago • 6 min read

Google I/O 2026: AI Built an OS in 12 Hours. I Spent Mine Sorting Screenshots. 🤦

This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge I haven't watched a tech keynote in a....

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Reviving a 12K+ Star Abandoned Library: toastr-next v3 🍞

NeuralHats: I Put Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats on Local LLMs Using Gemma 4

Gemma 4 challenge inspired me to build my first app!

Vestige: A Gemma 4 Brain Tracker That Won't Blow Smoke Up Your Ass

A 100% Private, Local AI Resume Optimizer with Google Gemma 4: How I Built ResuMate!

Your Inbox Knows Too Much: Parsli for the Privacy Paranoid

Hermes Mentor — A Local AI Agent That Gets You Out of Tutorial Hell

I built a local document Q&A tool around Gemma 4 E4B's 128K context — five days, no RAG, no cloud

Copilot helped me deploy my passion project to the App Store

Github Copilot helped us cut down 50-75% time in our e-commerce business

Building an Offline-First Bushfire Response Platform With Hermes Agent

From a College Hackathon Idea to an Unfinished Developer Dream — Reviving AlgoPair 🚀

The Brutal Reality of Running Gemma 4 Locally

I Ditched Cloud LLMs for Gemma 4 4B: A DevOps Engineer's 48-Hour Reality Check

UXRay: I Built an AI That Roasts Your UI Like a Senior Designer Would

Hermes Agent Changed How I Think About Execution Boundaries

Hermes Agent ran overnight and I woke up to a $47 bill — so I built a kill-switch

🛡️ PromptGuard: I Built a Local AI Privacy Firewall That Sanitizes Your Prompts Before They Leave Your Machine

From Govhack Win to Something That Actually Matters

I stress-tested Gemma 4 E4B's 128K context on a laptop GPU — recall is great, prefill is not

How the 80/20 Rule and GitHub Copilot Saved My Abandoned App From Code Graveyard

Everyone's Talking About Gemini 3.5 Flash. The Real Story at Google I/O 2026 Was a Skill File.

The Project I Couldn’t Finish 2 Years Ago - Notebook for ChatGPT

Google I/O 2026: AI Built an OS in 12 Hours. I Spent Mine Sorting Screenshots. 🤦