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This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built Some time ago, I needed to calculate hashes of directory trees across multiple platforms and architectures. Many existing solutions were based on GNU find, but I quickly realized that this approach has a number of shortcomings. As a result, hashdir was born: a cross-platform tool that takes into account many of the quirks and edge cases involved in calculating directory hashes, including character encoding, path separators, path overlaps, symlinks, and more. For use cases involving directory structures that contain very large binary files, I also added support for the imohash algorithm, which can hash large files quickly while maintaining an acceptable error rate. Once it had solved my original problem, I decided to share it with the world. Demo A short demo, along with installation and usage instructions can be found in the repository . The Comeback Story To my pleasant surprise, people began engaging with hashdir in various ways. One user reached out to tell me they were using it in their work and requested additional features, while another packaged it for their own use. Their interest motivated me to expand the feature set, improve test coverage and continuous integration, and further strengthen the codebase's robustness and overall quality.

Hey all, we have a quick update for everyone who participated in the Github "Finish-Up-A-Thon"...

Hey all, we have a quick update for everyone who participated in the GitHub "Finish-Up-A-Thon"...

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built I built Academia, a modern, delivery-only Learning Management System (LMS) designed for creators who want a premium, distraction-free environment for their students. With Academia, educators can spin up their own custom academy, build out rich curriculums with video and text lessons, and securely invite students via email magic-links. Once a student accepts an invite, they are dropped into an isolated, hyper-clean student portal that tracks their course progress in real-time. This project started two years ago during a hackathon. I had this really great idea, but I was still very much a beginner. Between the tight timeframe, lack of sleep, and my slow coding speed, I just couldn't pull through to finish the project in time to submit. It sat abandoned in my repositories, gathering dust. Finishing it means finally delivering on the exact vision I had in my head two years ago, but with the skills and architecture of today. Demo Live Site Repository The Comeback Story I always told myself I’d finish this project "after the dust settles," but I never got around to it. When I saw this challenge, I knew it was time. Just looking at the 2-year-old repository gave me an instant headache. The packages were entirely outdated, Vercel was throwing massive build errors, and running npm run dev was painfully slow. Basically, everything was lagging. I seriously considered just starting a fresh repo from scratch. I figured I would just look at the shabby design I created two years ago and try to manually copy-paste the "important" code over, because I knew updating the existing mess would be an absolute nightmare. But instead, I decided to lean heavily on GitHub Copilot Auto (so I could automatically get the best models for the job) to see if we could salvage and modernize the original codebase. Here is the story of my before-and-after journey, and how Copilot helped me finally finish what I started. My Expe

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built The average student opens their notes 3 days before the exam. The above average student opens them the night before. Either way, they both end up on YouTube at 3am watching a guy explain thermodynamics with a whiteboard and too much energy. I built something better. I built Forge AI — a collaborative AI study platform that turns your lecture notes, PDFs, and YouTube links into a full study session with an AI tutor that actually talks back. Here is what it does: 📄 Upload your notes or paste a YouTube link — Forge AI reads everything and builds you a prioritised study plan in seconds. 🧠 Deep Dive into any topic — get full AI generated study notes, a mnemonic memory trick, and a built-in quiz. 🎙️ Talk to your AI tutor live — it listens, speaks back, and you can see the transcript building in real time as it talks. 👥 Create a Forge Room — invite your study group, ask the AI questions together, battle each other in a live quiz, and everyone sees everything at the same time. It started as CrammAI . A solo study tool I built under exam pressure. Well, it could generate a study plan from your uploaded files and quiz you on topics. That was it. No voice. No collaboration. No rooms. No Finesse. Just you, alone, cramming at 2am. Five months later I came back to finish it. The result is Forge AI. Demo Live app GitHub Here is what Forge AI can do: 1. Upload your materials and pick your mode Three modes based on how much time you have: 🧘 Cruise Control — 1+ week until exam 🚀 Turbo Mode — 2 days left ⚡ Zoom Mode — due tonight 2. Paste a YouTube link — it transcribes automatically ts export const apiFetchYoutubeTranscript = async ( url : string ): Promise < string > => { const videoId = extractYoutubeId ( url ); const response = await fetch ( `/api/transcript?videoId= ${ videoId } ` ); const data = await response . json (); return data . transcript ; }; No manual transcription. Paste the link, Forge AI pull

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built I built TradeWeave — a B2B + B2C fashion marketplace that connects small scale weavers and manufacturers directly to customers and retailers, eliminating middlemen entirely. The project started as a notebook idea at midnight: "What if factory workers and artisans could sell directly, keeping the full margin instead of losing 40% to supply chain bloat?" Demo 🔗 Live Demo — TradeWeave — Try it right now, no installation needed How to use: Hover over any dress card — it flips to reveal sizes Pick a size, adjust quantity, click "Add to cart" Click "Sign up" to see the premium registration flow Click the TradeWeave logo 5 times to unlock the hidden admin dashboard Click "Wholesale" tab to see direct manufacturer listings 💻 Source Code: github.com/Deeraj25/tradeweave The Comeback Story Before: Idea scribbled in a notebook at midnight Zero code written Zero deployment Tucked away under "someday projects" Status: Abandoned After: Full-featured marketplace in production ~550 lines of polished HTML/CSS/JavaScript Deployed live on Netlify + GitHub Pages Anyone can use it instantly Real product with real features Core fixes: Built the entire marketplace from scratch (this was a notebook idea, not existing code) Implemented hover-to-flip cards with CSS 3D transforms (perspective + rotateY) Created responsive product grid with auto-fill layout Built localStorage persistence for cart + admin state What Changed, Fixed, and Added Features added: 5 product categories with 20+ items Hover-flip interaction (no page reload needed) AI Try-On modal with upload UX Wholesale B2B portal with manufacturer data Hidden admin dashboard (5-click unlock) Aurora-style signup with animated hero and steps Real-time analytics dashboard (revenue, top categories, order table) Mobile-responsive design Keyboard + mouse support Polish & optimization: Custom animations (staggered reveals, floats, shimmers) Cormorant Garamond typograp

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built SpendWise AI is a free tool that audits your AI tool spending (Cursor, Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Windsurf) against verified vendor pricing and tells you exactly where you're overspending and what to do about it. I originally built this as a week-long assignment for a startup. The problem it solves is simple: founders and engineering managers pay for multiple AI tools but have no idea if they're getting ripped off. SpendWise gives them that answer in under a minute, no signup needed. The interesting part is that the core audit engine has zero AI in it. It runs 6 hardcoded rules against verified pricing data, so every recommendation is reproducible and verifiable. AI (Groq's Llama 3) only kicks in to write a friendly summary paragraph on top of the structured results. I made this choice because financial recommendations need to be deterministic. Same input, same output, every time. The stack is Next.js 16, TypeScript, Tailwind + shadcn/ui, Supabase for the database, Groq for AI summaries, Resend for emails, and Vitest for testing. Deployed on Vercel. Live app: spendwise-ai-test.vercel.app Source code: github.com/Karam-999/SpendWise-AI Demo The original audit tool: The comeback (re-audit on pricing change): You can try the Round 1 version live at spendwise-ai-test.vercel.app . Pick a tool like Cursor on Teams plan at $40/mo, run the audit, and see the full savings breakdown. The Round 2 features (pricing change detection, re-audit diff view) are on a separate branch and not merged to main yet, but the demo video above walks through the complete flow. The Comeback Story Where it was: The original version was basically a calculator. You fill in your AI tools, it shows you where you can save money, and that's it. If Cursor changed its pricing the next week, your audit was already stale and you'd never know about it. It worked fine as a one-time thing. It had the form, the audit engine, AI

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This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built CampusBeat 2.0 — a React Native campus super-app for students across 17 colleges in Odisha, India. It started in 2023 as a simple notice board aggregator: scrape college websites so students didn't have to visit them. It worked. Students used it. Then life happened, and it sat untouched on GitHub for three years. This challenge gave me the push to finally open that repo again. What I found was equal parts embarrassing and educational. What it is now: 📰 Real-time notices for 17 colleges — ITER, KIIT, NIT Rourkela, IIT, and more 🎨 Complete UI overhaul — warm cream × charcoal × coral editorial design 🃏 3D tiltable campus identity card you can share with friends 🔖 Bookmarks — save any notice, grouped by college 💬 Real-time campus chat rooms powered by Socket.io 🛒 Campus marketplace — buy/sell within your college 🔔 Push notifications via Firebase Demo The original app from July 2023: LinkedIn post CampusBeat 2.0 — running on device: Onboarding screen - with beautiful animation Onboarding.mp4 - Google Drive drive.google.com Login screen — editorial serif heading, Lottie animation, warm ink hero Register screen — custom college picker bottom sheet with live search Home screen — quote card, college notice feed, floating tab bar Profile screen — 3D tiltable campus card with holographic shimmer Share modal — drag to rotate the card, share natively News Explorer — college chips, notice type tabs, live banner Marketplace — buy and sell within your college Bookmark - your persistent news bookmark.mp4 - Google Drive drive.google.com Chat screen - live interaction within colleges chat.mp4 - Google Drive drive.google.com The Comeback Story What I found after 3 years Opening an old repo is humbling. Here is what I walked into. The dead API. The home screen showed a daily quote — except quotable.io had shut down. Every user was silently seeing the hardcoded fallback for three years: "Villains are not bad, the

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built I built the Visual Cue Tracker, a tiny, personal sanctuary for reflection. It’s a tool designed to help us map our daily actions against our core values, specifically Empathy, Growth, and Balance. I started this project because I found myself moving so fast in my software engineering studies and internships that I often forgot why I was doing what I was doing. This tracker lets me see my week at a glance, reflect on my progress, and hold space for the things that truly matter to me. Demo Deployed site: hopebestworld.github.io github repo: https://github.com/HopeBestWorld/VisualCueTracker/tree/main demo: https://youtu.be/EqVfj289e-Q The Comeback Story When I first started this project, it was just a repo with no pushed code. In 2025, I simply set up the repo and put in a description, but never put the time or effort into bringing the idea to life. To finish it up for the challenge, I added a few things that made it feel truly alive. I built a custom, zero-key AI engine that runs entirely inside your browser. It scans your weekly reflections and gives you immediate, gentle feedback on how well your written thoughts match the values you logged. It suggests! If I’m missing the mark, it gives me specific prompts to help me get back to my goals. I added quick-export features so I can turn my weekly reflections into a clean text log, making it easy to keep a personal journal outside of the app. I set up a fully automated deployment pipeline using GitHub Actions, so my site updates instantly whenever I push my code. My Experience with GitHub Copilot GitHub Copilot felt like a supportive coding partner throughout this journey. When I was stuck on complex pathing issues for my GitHub Pages deployment, it helped me iterate through solutions quickly. It was especially great at explaining why certain parts of my code (like my custom Regex AI engine) were behaving the way they were, allowing me to stay in

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built ASTronaut is a personal code snippet manager that uses GitHub Gists as its storage backend. The name is a dumb pun: it literally builds an AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) of your Java snippets using JavaParser, pulling out class and method names so you can search by structure, not just by file name. The idea is simple: stop losing useful snippets to random notes apps or Gist pages you'll never find again. ASTronaut gives you a proper UI to create, search, edit, diff, and organize your snippets, while keeping everything synced to GitHub Gists so nothing is stuck on one machine. Frontend Repository: https://github.com/kusoroadeolu/astronaut-ui Backend Repository: https://github.com/kusoroadeolu/ASTronaut The Comeback Story The original ASTronaut had PostgreSQL, Redis, Spring Security, JWT auth, a full login/register flow, user management, admin roles, rate limiting... for a tool that only I was ever going to use. It never shipped. Not because it didn't work, but because every time I sat down to actually use it, I had to spin up a database, a Redis instance, deal with tokens. It just killed any motivation I had. The whole point was to save me time. It wasn't doing that. So it sat there. For a while. When I heard about the Finish-Up-A-Thon, this was the first project that came to mind. What Actually Changed The revamp had one goal: make it feel like a tool, not a project. Here's what got cut: The entire auth system: Spring Security, JWT, login/register, user management, all of it PostgreSQL and JPA, replaced by a lightweight local JSON index file Redis and rate limiting, pointless for a solo local tool Deep metadata extraction that was never actually used in search Here's what replaced it: GitHub PAT in an application.props file. One line of config, no OAuth flow, no callback URLs. PAT is the right call here: OAuth is for when other people are logging in with their GitHub accounts. This is just me. G

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built After being abandoned for several months, I have come back to build and complete Claude with LeetCode, which is a DSA learning system that automates daily algorithm education with Claude code directly inside GitHub repo. Every time I submit an accepted solution on Leetcode, the Github workflow fetches my Leetcode account data and commit the problem with the solution to the repo. Claude will then run on a fixed schedule and automatically generates a full structured lecture, covering the DSA topic, brute force through optimal solutions in Python, complexity analysis, and a YouTube video packaged in a GitHub Issue. This project means a lot to me because it merges two things I care about daily: now not only can I solve Leetcode problem, my solution is automatically analyzed by a powerful AI agent mentor. Demo Link to my project: https://github.com/Stewie-pixel/claude-with-leetcode.git Link to my application walkthrough: https://youtu.be/ClWdW3v9JJ0 The Comeback Story At first this was only a project to store the Leetcode questions I have solved. The process required manual pushing the problem to the repo and nothing special. Later I have added the automation workflow to fetch data from my Leetcode account, Claude will be prompted like an experienced dsa mentor from Claude and skill.md file to give a thorough analysis on that problem. And at the end of the day, Github Copilot workflow will give a daily summary report to cover my daily progress. My Experience with GitHub Copilot I built a DSA Mentor skill that gives Copilot the full context of what a lecture should contain: topic identification, the brute force to optimal approach structure, complexity analysis requirements, and the YouTube search step. Without Copilot, writing the dsaMentor.js orchestration logic and getting the agent to consistently produce structured markdown output would have taken significantly longer. I then use Copilot cli

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge OpsPilot AI: Reviving an Unfinished AI-Powered Operations Platform with GitHub Copilot What I Built OpsPilot AI is an AI-powered operations assistant designed to help DevOps engineers, SREs, and operations teams investigate incidents, monitor service health, and gain actionable operational insights. The project originally started as a side project inspired by my experience working in production support and monitoring environments. I built an initial version to validate the idea but never fully completed it. The core concept was promising, but several important features and usability improvements were still missing. Through the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge, I revisited the project and transformed it into a much more complete and polished MVP. Key features include: AI-powered incident analysis Root cause investigation assistance MTTR analytics dashboard Service health monitoring Incident trend analysis Executive reporting insights Modern responsive user interface Demo Live Application GitHub Repository OpsPilot AI helps operations teams reduce investigation time and improve operational visibility through AI-powered workflows and analytics. The Comeback Story When I first started OpsPilot AI, it was mainly an experiment to explore how AI could assist operations teams during incident investigations. Although the foundation was built, the project was left unfinished because of limited time and competing priorities. The original version lacked: Incident analytics Meaningful operational insights Root cause investigation workflows Executive reporting capabilities A polished user experience For this challenge, I focused on completing the project and turning it into a usable MVP. What I Added AI Incident Analysis Enhanced the platform with AI-powered incident summaries and investigation assistance. Operations Analytics Added dashboards to track: Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) Incident frequency Service health

Created a Google Chrome extension that instantly turns any highlighted text on a webpage into a Google Calendar event

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built FlowDesk is a fully offline, production-quality productivity dashboard that combines three tools I always wanted in one place — a habit tracker, a Pomodoro focus timer, and a Kanban task board — all in a single beautiful React app with zero backend and zero accounts required. 🔗 Live Demo: https://flow-desk-lovat.vercel.app/ 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/red-coder-27/flow-desk Everything runs entirely in your browser via localStorage. Your data never leaves your device. Core Features 🎯 Habit Tracker GitHub-style 84-day contribution heatmap Streak tracking with fire badges 🔥 Emoji + color customization per habit Confetti celebration when you hit 100% for the day 🎉 Daily/Weekdays/Weekends frequency options ⏱️ Pomodoro Focus Timer Animated SVG countdown ring with glow effect Web Audio API chimes — no audio files needed Session history log with weekly focus stats Keyboard shortcuts: Space / R / S from any page Auto-switches between work and break sessions 📋 Kanban Task Board Full drag-and-drop via @dnd-kit (mouse + touch) Priority badges: 🔴 High / 🟡 Medium / 🟢 Low Live search + priority filter Three columns: To Do → In Progress → Done 📊 Unified Dashboard Real stats pulled from all three modules Weekly focus bar chart (Recharts) Daily motivational quote Quick-action buttons to jump into any module And more: Dark/Light/System theme, PWA installable, full keyboard shortcuts, data export/import, mobile bottom nav, glassmorphism UI. Demo 🚀 Try FlowDesk Live → Works best in Chrome. Install as a PWA for the full experience (look for the Install button in the top nav). Screenshots: Loom walkthrough video here: https://www.loom.com/share/f3c750d782694baf876229ab598695dc The Comeback Story Where It Started (The "Before") I originally started FlowDesk about 6 months ago during a weekend hackathon. The idea was simple: I was tired of switching between three different apps — one for habits, one for a Pomodoro

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AI medicine-awareness bot worked — but only in English, the one language most of the people I built it for can't read. Here's the problem, the one-day sprint to fix it, and how GitHub Copilot got me through it. GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon submission. I shipped this project months ago, but it was never truly finished — it was missing the one feature that decided whether a real person in my own community could use it. This challenge was the push that made me sit down and close that gap in a single night. The problem we face In India, you can walk into most pharmacies and buy prescription drugs without a prescription. We've quietly normalized something genuinely dangerous, and the research is blunt about it. A simulated-patient study in Bengaluru sent two researchers into 261 pharmacies with fake symptoms. Antibiotics were handed over without any prescription at roughly two-thirds (66.7%) of them. Not a single pharmacy warned about side effects. Only about one in five even mentioned that a doctor's prescription was needed. The "guidance" most people walked out with was "take it twice a day" — and nothing else. ( study ) Here is the part that kept me up at night: it's not because people are careless. The shopkeeper isn't a doctor. The label is printed in tiny English. A proper consultation costs time and money many families simply don't have. So people take what they're handed — and hope it's fine. Why it's important This isn't a small inconvenience. Taking the wrong medicine, or the right medicine the wrong way, is one of the biggest drivers of antibiotic resistance — the slow disaster where medicines stop working. The landmark 2019 Lancet GRAM study estimated 1.27 million deaths worldwide were directly attributable to drug-resistant infections in a single year. In India alone, an estimated 297,000 deaths were directly attributable to AMR, and about 1.04 million were associated with it. ( Lancet GRAM 2019 , India figures ) I'm not a doctor and I can't change how medicines

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This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built An AI interview coach that runs in your browser. No backend. No accounts. No subscriptions. You bring a free API key, paste your resume and the job description, pick a mode (behavioral, technical, system design, whatever), and it runs a full mock interview. Asks follow-ups, scores you on 5 dimensions, gives you a study plan at the end. I built the first version for the Gemma 4 DEV.to Challenge last month. It kinda worked. But I wouldn't have used it myself, and that bothered me. Live: hajirufai.github.io/gemma4-interview-coach Repo: github.com/hajirufai/gemma4-interview-coach Demo What you get now: 🗣️ 6 practice modes — behavioral (STAR method), technical, system design, online assessment sim, certification prep, case studies 🎤 Voice mode — talk into your mic, hear feedback read aloud. Because typing answers in a mock interview is weird. - 📄 Resume + JD aware — paste both, get questions about your actual experience gaps 📸 Screenshot upload — snap a coding problem or whiteboard and discuss it 🌐 4 AI providers with free tiers (Google AI Studio, OpenRouter, NVIDIA NIM, Hugging Face) 🌙 Dark mode, session history, timer, downloadable reports ## The Comeback Story ### Where it was before I threw this together during the Gemma 4 Challenge in May. Classic hackathon energy — built the core chat loop, got 6 mode cards looking nice, slapped on dark mode, shipped it. Then I hit the wall. Google AI Studio was throwing 500 errors during peak hours. The only option was "refresh and hope." No voice input, so you're typing interview answers like it's a customer support chat. And if you had a typo in your API key? Good luck figuring out why nothing's working. It was a demo, not a tool. ### What actually changed I came back with one rule: make this something I'd actually use to prep for my own interview. Voice mode was the big one. I'm prepping for a senior cybersecurity engineering interview right now. Typing