Hacktoberfest 2026: How We Hit $1M ARR in 24 Hours + Launching Backboard Studio with Backboard

Jem

Congrats to the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Winners!

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Oct 30

Anush Deotare

I Built a Graveyard for My Abandoned Git Repos (Gemma Writes the Epitaphs, Offline)

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Oct 30

Atharv Soni

Ofrenda Viva AI: The 100% Local Día de los Muertos Altar & Ghost-in-the-Machine Séance

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Oct 30

Alizay Yousfzai

StackSpirit: a local ghost that tells you what to install

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Oct 30

season

git push shit: I Built a Ghost That Haunts Your Repo — and the Command Is Literal

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Oct 30

Arya Bhagat

VedaX — Turning Vedic Mathematics Practice into a Smarter Learning Experience

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Oct 30

Rohan Sonu Bablani

I Gave My Notes a Ghostly Side: Bringing Forgotten Memories Back with AI

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Oct 30

Prashi Jain

Phantasm-Orbit: 3D NORAD Zombie Satellite Tracker, TabPFN Decay Forecaster & Local Gemma 3:1b Digital Séance 🛰️👻

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Oct 30

Nuwahereza Peter

Ebyafaayo: keeping my grandparents' stories alive with Gemma 4, offline

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Oct 30

Delight Obinna

PHANTOM IDE: Uncovering the Secrets Hidden in Your Codebase

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Oct 30

Utkarsh Mishra

Imagine using your own tool to check if you are one of the winners of previous week's challenge 👀

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Oct 30

Pasha Meer

Link Rot Ofrenda: a local Gemma lights candles for the web pages we lost (and won't make things up)

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Oct 30

T A Srinivas

Preserving Legacy via Open-Weight Multimodal Transcription Agents

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Oct 30

Toyyib Olamilekan

Teaching cognee to read a family tree (a Mergetober connector story)

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Oct 29

Robert Gilbert

Ghost Case Log — A Paranormal Investigation Journal That Honors the Past

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Oct 30