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What is Wrisha? Wrisha is a desktop emotional AI companion — an animated character who can see you, hear you, talk back, and react. The pipeline is genuinely multimodal: Vision — webcam + facial-emotion detection (OpenCV / FER) Hearing — speech-to-text so you can just talk to her Brain — an LLM generates her replies, in-character Voice — text-to-speech with mood-modulated tone Avatar — an animated face (pygame) that emotes and lip-syncs I built the bones of it a while back, got busy, and walked away. The Finish-Up-A-Thon was the push I needed to come back to it. The "before": it didn't just need polish — it was dead When I reopened the repo, the harsh truth was that the app couldn't even start. Two things had rotted: The environment was a fossil. The project was so old it wouldn't install on a modern machine. Wrong numpy, stale dependency pins, and a Python version mismatch that sent pip trying to compile packages from source and failing. Just getting it to attempt to run took a full environment rebuild on Python 3.12. The code was half-migrated and crashed on launch. I'd previously upgraded the internal modules — memory, a mood engine, a smarter brain — to a "v3" design, but I never finished wiring them into main.py. So the moment it tried to start, it died: TypeError: init () missing 2 required positional arguments: 'memory' and 'mood_engine' The "before" in one screenshot: a project that built its best features and then never connected them. I'd built the hard parts — persistent memory, a smooth mood state machine, proactive behavior — and left them sitting in files that main.py never even imported. Classic abandoned-side-project energy. The "after": three things I finished I set out to do three things, and I'm counting all three as the win. It runs again The core fix was finishing the migration: rewiring main.py to actually construct the Memory and MoodEngine, inject them into the Brain, and reference mood from the engine instead of the dead attribute it used to

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge The Project That Got Away Three months ago, I started building something I was genuinely excited about: devto-mcp — a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that would let AI agents interact with Dev.to's API natively. No more cobbling together curl commands. No more writing custom wrapper scripts for every AI tool. Just a clean, standards-compliant MCP server that any AI agent could plug into. I had a vision: an AI agent that could autonomously research trending topics, draft articles, publish them, track engagement, and iterate — all through a single protocol. The kind of thing that sounds simple until you actually sit down to build it. I got about 40% of the way through. Then life happened. A client project deadline. A cross-country move. A laptop that decided to corrupt its SSD at the worst possible time. The repo sat there on GitHub, collecting digital dust, with half-implemented tool functions and a README that promised way more than the code delivered. Sound familiar? If you've been a developer for more than a year, you have at least one of these ghost repos. That ambitious side project you were so sure you'd finish "next weekend." The one with the clever name and the detailed architecture doc but barely functional code. Two weeks ago, I saw the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon announcement. I looked at my list of abandoned repos. And I thought: it's time. What I Built: devto-mcp devto-mcp is a Model Context Protocol server that exposes Dev.to's entire API as MCP-compatible tools. If you're not familiar with MCP, it's the protocol that lets AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and other coding agents interact with external tools in a standardized way. Think of it as a universal adapter between AI models and the services developers actually use. Here's the problem it solves: Every time you want an AI agent to interact with Dev.to — whether it's searching for articles, publishing a post, checking analytics, or ma

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This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built I started this project as a way to escape the noise of social media we have today and to focus on what matters. It was a personal project at first and I just wanted to get an uncluttered messaging working. After a while a few friends of mine started looking into it and liked the vision as well. Then I received a notification of the event and that excitement of finishing it up got all over me - I felt like a kid again. Demo Because I want to have control over my data, I self host the version on a small microcontroller, which is more than sufficient for me and my friends. To get a sneak peak at how it looks, check out this . (Be aware that this is not functional as there is no server connected) I made some demo accounts to give a sense of how the app looks and feels: The Comeback Story Because I had the messaging already working, I had to mainly implement the rest of the features, including enhanced profiles, networks and posts creation. Another thing I really had to work on was the design. Before, it was mainly a black and white testing ground - something every end user would be scared of. My Experience with GitHub Copilot I am really not talented in terms of designing a usable interface. However, my friends really didn't want to use a half-baked up command line application. Copilot really helped me achieve that polished look. Just to give a glimpse of how it feels, one friend of mine even described it as an enhancing feature when navigating through the tabs. Furthermore, although it mostly was bug free, "It worked, until it didn't". Sometimes I spent hours fixing or rather finding some annoying bugs. And because Copilot is a real expert in these languages, it was quite a moment when it guided me towards finding the mistakes I made.

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This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built VKara is a browser-based karaoke room app for singing at home with friends or family. It is not trying to replace YouTube. YouTube is already great at playing videos. It already has almost every karaoke song we need. But YouTube is not really designed to manage a karaoke night where many people want to choose songs together. That is the gap VKara tries to fill. You open VKara on a TV or laptop as the main playback screen. Everyone else joins the same room from their phone using a 4-digit room code or QR code. Then anyone can search for songs, add them to the queue, pause, resume, or skip. The TV only needs to play the video. Everyone's phone becomes their own remote. That is the whole idea. Simple enough to explain in one sentence. Not simple enough to build in one weekend. I learned that part the hard way. Demo Links: Live demo: https://vkara.vercel.app/en GitHub repo: https://github.com/lehuygiang28/vkara Before branch: https://github.com/lehuygiang28/vkara/tree/before Old backend repo: https://github.com/lehuygiang28/vkara-api Small warning: the demo is running on limited resources, so if it is slow, please give it a moment. My wallet is still a student wallet. lol. The flow is: Open VKara on a TV or laptop. Join the room from a phone by code or QR. Search for a karaoke video. Add it to the shared queue. Control playback together. Before: the idea worked, but the product still felt like a video app squeezed into a karaoke use case. After: the mobile flow is now focused on joining, searching, choosing an action, and controlling playback. The Comeback Story I started VKara around early 2025. At that time, my goal was very personal. I wanted a better way to sing karaoke at home with friends. The normal setup was: open YouTube on a TV, search for karaoke videos, and pass control around. It worked, but it was awkward. One person was searching. Another person accidentally played a video immedia

This is a submission for the [GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge] What I Built LeadBotX is an AI-powered lead generation platform prototype designed to simulate how modern businesses can automatically discover, filter, and manage high-quality leads using intelligent automation workflows. This project is not just a simple frontend demo — it represents a revived college-level concept that I initially started earlier but left incomplete due to time constraints and complexity. For this challenge, I revisited the idea and transformed it into a fully structured SaaS-style frontend system with improved UI, better workflow representation, and a more realistic product-like experience. The main goal of LeadBotX is to visually demonstrate how an AI-based lead generation system works end-to-end in a real-world SaaS environment. Tech Stack This project was built using modern frontend technologies: React.js → Component-based UI structure CSS3 → Custom responsive styling system AOS (Animate On Scroll) → Smooth scroll animations Lucide Icons & React Icons → UI iconography GitHub Copilot → Assisted in code generation, debugging, and UI improvements Demo Source Code: https://github.com/Khushisingh-dev/LeadBotX Production Landing Page: https://lead-bot-x.vercel.app/ Before (Initial Version)- After (Final Version)- The Comeback Story This project originally started as a college-level concept during my development learning phase. At that time, I built only a basic structure and initial UI, but I was unable to complete it due to time limitations and complexity of the idea. It remained an unfinished project for a long time. When I came across this challenge, I decided to revisit LeadBotX and transform it into something more meaningful and complete. Instead of just polishing the UI, I focused on: Rebuilding the structure into a proper SaaS layout Improving workflow clarity and user journey Enhancing UI/UX consistency across all sections Making the product feel like a real-world AI tool prot

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge The Bug That Doubled Real Trades On May 21, my live trading bot generated six duplicate execution attempts in one session. SafeAgent blocked all six. Without the guard: one duplicated a $1,350 sell another doubled a TQQQ position total duplicate transaction exposure: $3,653 That session changed how I think about AI agents, retries, and execution guarantees. What I Built SafeAgent is an exactly-once execution guard for AI agents and SaaS applications. It prevents duplicate payments, emails, trades, and webhook processing when retries fire after a timeout or crash. Live endpoint: https://safeagent-production.up.railway.app GitHub: https://github.com/azender1/SafeAgent PyPI: pip install safeagent-exec-guard The Comeback Story How it actually started Six months ago I was building two things at once: PeerPlay — a patented P2P wagering exchange for skill-based video game tournaments (USPTO provisional 63/914,036) — and a live QQQ/TQQQ momentum trading bot running on Alpaca Markets. Both hit the same bug. Contest verification agent times out, retries, settlement fires twice. Bot order fills, confirmation drops, retry fires, doubled position. Same failure mode. Different domain. Different models pushed me toward very different architectures during development. Some were fast but overconfident. The most useful moments came when a model explained why an approach was broken before I implemented it. That's part of why SafeAgent sat unfinished. Not just time — wrong turns that burned momentum. Why local idempotency fails Early versions used a local SQLite guard. It worked until it didn't: workers restart and the in-memory state is gone containers reschedule and replay from the last checkpoint retries land on a different machine entirely Exactly-once semantics require a durable coordination boundary outside the worker itself. That's what the hosted /claim endpoint provides — the claim lives on the server, not in the p

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built pq — jq for Parquet. A 50 MB Rust single binary that wraps DuckDB's query engine in a jq-style expression DSL, optimized for terminal one-liners and unix pipes. $ pq sales.parquet 'group_by .country | sum .revenue | top 3 by sum_revenue' ┌─────────┬─────────────┐ │ country ┆ sum_revenue │ ╞═════════╪═════════════╡ │ US ┆ 19065.00 │ │ FR ┆ 999.99 │ │ DE ┆ 312.00 │ └─────────┴─────────────┘ Where it started. I work in adtech. I look at parquet files dozens of times a day — campaign deliveries, partner exports, audience snapshots. Every existing option was painful: Tool Pain pyarrow / pandas 5-second cold start, 200 MB virtualenv parquet-tools JVM, slow, no query support pqrs Inspector only — can't filter or project duckdb CLI Great engine, but SELECT email FROM 'file.parquet' WHERE country='US' is too verbose to type 50 times a day Spark Are you serious pq is the tool I actually want — single binary, no JVM, no Python, jq-style syntax for piping into the rest of the unix toolbox. It's been my default cat for parquet since v0.5. Demo Repo : github.com/thehwang/parq Latest release : v0.14.0 (this submission) Install : brew install thehwang/parq/pq Tutorial : doc/tutorial.md — 30-minute hands-on walkthrough A taste of what shipped in v0.14: # Streaming JSON output (was the only buffered format until v0.14) $ pq big.parquet '.id, .country' -o json | head -c 200 # returns instantly even on a 40 GB file # Schema-drift gate for CI $ pq diff baseline.parquet candidate.parquet # Schema diff - a: ` baseline.parquet ` - b: ` candidate.parquet ` ## Added (1) | column | type | nullable | |-----------|---------|----------| | ` country ` | VARCHAR | yes | $ echo $? 1 # exits non-zero on drift, slots into CI without scripting And the new TUI Explain panel — press capital E for EXPLAIN ANALYZE , get row-group pruning per scan (this is exactly the panel you see on the cover image at the top of this post): Expla

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built I revisited my personal website and decided to turn it into a more complete and polished portfolio. The project originally started as a simple personal website hosted on GitHub Pages. While it was functional, many planned features and improvements were never completed. For this challenge, I am working on improving the mobile experience, adding dark mode support, enhancing the Projects section, improving SEO, fixing existing issues, and making the website more interactive and professional. My goal is to transform an unfinished personal website into a modern portfolio that better represents my work, skills, and projects. Demo Live Website https://ehsankahrizi.github.io/ GitHub Repository https://github.com/Ehsankahrizi/Ehsankahrizi.github.io Current Status This project is currently being improved as part of the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge. Planned improvements include: Better mobile responsiveness Dark mode support Enhanced Projects section Improved SEO More interactive user experience Better website performance Additional pages and content Fixing existing usability issues The Comeback Story When I returned to this project, I realized that many ideas I originally had for the website were still unfinished. Although the website was online, it still had several limitations: The mobile experience needed improvement. Dark mode was not available. The Projects section was incomplete. The contact functionality needed attention. SEO optimization was missing. The website relied on a mostly single-page structure. User interactions were limited. Performance could be improved. Instead of starting a new project, I decided to revisit this existing one and finally complete the improvements that had been postponed. This challenge provided the perfect opportunity to continue development, clean up the codebase, improve the user experience, and turn the website into something I can confidently share with ot

The Journey I set out to build an efficient automation backend utility designed to classify incoming customer inquiries and automatically suggest optimized replies. My goal for this challenge was to document the transition of a basic, fragile text-parsing utility into a highly resilient, enterprise-ready application script. Production Evolution The Before (Fragile Prototype Base): The initial design relied entirely on rigid, case-sensitive string matching. It contained no persistent database engine, meaning analytics data was lost instantly upon script termination, and it lacked structural exception guarding, making it highly susceptible to standard runtime crashes if empty or unexpected values were inputted. The After (Fault-Tolerant Enterprise Core): I fully refactored the utility's entire architectural layout. The system now initializes a local SQLite relational table structure ( analytics.db ), appends automated date/time timestamps for granular metrics tracking, leverages strict array-based substring evaluation, and traps fatal exceptions seamlessly via localized error handling catch loops. Public Code Repository The complete operational source code, database persistence schemas, and functional verification blocks can be inspected directly via my public repository: https://github.com/playsmai/biz-responder-automation-

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built SecAPI is a local-first, zero-trust CLI utility and key manager designed to make code security the easiest developer path. Exposing secrets (like Stripe, OpenAI, or AWS keys) in repository files is one of the most common causes of credential leaks. Often, developers resort to plaintext .env files that can be accidentally staged and pushed, or struggle with complex vault set-ups. SecAPI solves this with a seamless three-step command line workflow: Scans codebases for exposed API keys using fast regex rules or advanced AI analysis. Vaults secrets locally using strong AES-256 encryption derived via PBKDF2-HMAC (completely offline). Replaces raw hardcoded strings in code with secure, runtime references ( load_key("key_name") )—preserving variable names, indentation, and comments. It means we can keep our code secure, separate environments easily, and prevent pushes with unencrypted credentials—all without relying on cloud-based vault hosts. Demo Interactive Web Showcase : secapi.netlify.app GitHub Repository : github.com/BinayakJha/SecAPI The Scrolling CLI Showcase in Action Check out the interactive scrollytelling page on secapi.netlify.app to see the simulator type out and execute the CLI commands (scanning, setting up vaults, applying smart code rewrites, checking the status board, and running the git pre-commit hook) in real-time as you scroll! The Comeback Story Where It Started SecAPI was an abandoned CLI prototype. It was un-installable due to file packaging typos, suffered from weak vault security (a custom padding scheme instead of a standard key derivation function), had no recovery options if the master password was lost, and used a basic console print command to list keys. Furthermore, the AI scanner relied on outdated OpenAI package versions, creating environment conflicts. What I Changed, Fixed, and Added I gave the project a complete, ground-up overhaul to turn it into a premium,

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built GlowStore — a full-stack MERN e-commerce store (React + Redux + Express + MongoDB). Back in 2023 I built this as my university Web Engineering final project. I ran out of time, handed in what I had, and never touched it again. When I reopened it for this challenge I found something funny: the backend was basically finished — JWT auth, products, orders, reviews, search — but the React frontend never actually talked to it. It was a good-looking shell with fake logic bolted on. So "finishing it" meant connecting the two halves and making it a real store you can actually shop in. Repo: https://github.com/hashaam-011/Web-Engineering Demo Before — the entire app was just a fake login screen. Typing anything (or nothing) and clicking "Log in" flipped a boolean and "logged you in": After — a working storefront with products from the database: A real product detail page (was literally <h1>DetailsPages</h1> before): You can run it yourself in two terminals (no database setup needed — it boots an in-memory MongoDB and seeds itself): cd backend && npm install && npm start # http://localhost:4000 npm install && npm start # http://localhost:3000 Demo login: user@example.com / 123456 — or register a new account. The Comeback Story Here's what the project looked like before , and what I changed: Before After Login dispatched a boolean and ignored your credentials Real login/register against the API with JWT + bcrypt Frontend never called the backend (no axios anywhere) Axios client with token injection; products load from MongoDB Product details page was <h1>DetailsPages</h1> and wasn't routed Full details page (image, price, stock, rating) routed by slug Cart was local-only; "checkout" button did nothing Persistent cart → checkout → real order placed and saved Backend had a reviews endpoint the UI never used Product reviews: read them and post your own with a star rating Only 3 routes; most of the app was

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built I built the Atomberg Goal Setting & Tracking Portal — a full-featured, role-based HR performance management system for Atomberg Technologies (a fast-growing Indian consumer electronics brand). The portal manages the complete employee performance lifecycle : 🎯 Goal Setting — Employees create goals with weightage, UoM type, and thrust area alignment. Business rules enforced: max 8 goals, total 100% weightage, minimum 10% per goal ✅ Manager Approval Workflow — Submit → Review → Approve / Return for Rework 📊 Quarterly Check-ins — Q1–Q4 progress logging with 4 UoM types (Numeric Min/Max, Timeline, Zero-is-best) 🚨 Escalation Monitor — Rule-based detection of overdue submissions, missing approvals, and pending manager reviews 📈 Analytics & Reports — QoQ trend charts, department-wise performance, thrust area distribution, CSV exports 🔒 Admin Governance — Cycle phase management, shared goal distribution, full audit logging Tech Stack: React 18 + Vite · Context API · localStorage (zero-backend demo) · Recharts · Lucide Icons · Custom dark glassmorphism CSS Demo 🔗 Live App: https://atomberg-goal-tracker.vercel.app/ 📁 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/anonomous29/atomberg-goal-tracker Quick Login Credentials Role Email Password Admin priya.sharma@atomberg.com admin123 Manager rajesh.kumar@atomberg.com manager123 Employee vikram.singh@atomberg.com emp123 What to try: Login as Admin → Go to Escalation Monitor → see rule-based alerts Go to Reports → QoQ Trends tab → see Q1 performance bar chart Login as Employee → Dashboard shows Q1 score donut + goal-level progress Login as Manager → See team check-in status and review Q1 feedback The Comeback Story This project started as a hackathon requirement — a Business Requirements Document (BRD) from Atomberg asking for a digital goal management system. The initial version had the core structure but was essentially an empty shell: blank dashboards on login, no check

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built I built and revived Mandi Central , a complete business operations and billing system for mandi-style trading businesses. Live Project: https://mandicentral.in Mandi Central helps manage daily mandi operations like purchases, farmer purchase entries, sales entries, payments, bank and cash ledgers, accounting heads, reports, invoices, outstanding balances, and financial statements from one structured platform. This project was not started as a simple demo. It was a real business-focused software project, but it had many unfinished parts, broken flows, missing reports, pending PDF generation, incomplete mobile API planning, and several UI and accounting issues. For the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge, I brought it back, fixed the pending issues, completed the core business flow, and made the project live on mandicentral.in . Demo Live Website: https://mandicentral.in GitHub Repository: https://github.com/hiijoshi/bill Screenshots and demo cover the completed modules: Business Operations Hub Sales List Bank reconciliation Cash ledger Bank ledger Sales entry Purchase entry Farmer purchase entry Bulk PDF download Accounting reports Party ledger redirection Outstanding reports Mobile API-ready backend The Comeback Story Mandi Central started with a strong idea: create one platform where mandi businesses can manage their complete daily workflow. But before this challenge, the project was stuck with many incomplete and pending items. There were more than 40 pending issues across PDF generation, sales invoices, bank ledger, cash ledger, accounting reports, outstanding reports, purchase calculations, sales calculations, mobile APIs, AWS deployment, domain setup, and UI fixes. Some of the major problems before completion were: PDF generation was not working properly. Bulk sales bill download was missing. Mobile application APIs were pending. Farmer Purchase Entry API was pending. Purchase Entry API w

What I Built I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with technology. In college, I majored in computer science and took classes ranging from electrical engineering to human-computer interaction. From soldering transistors on a physical circuit board to designing UI/UX experiences, I’ve touched many layers of the computing stack—and I’m constantly mind-blown by every new piece of the puzzle I learn. However, my experience as a user of technology before studying it was very different. In middle school and high school, my phone made me feel anxious, stressed, and cynical. I felt lonely on social apps and isolated when I deleted them. I remember some summer days in middle school spent alone in my bedroom watching YouTube, where I was recommended extreme dieting videos. Back when I had no idea what an algorithm was, I still knew I was being harmed by them. By my sophomore year of college, I had deleted Instagram and TikTok and turned off YouTube recommendations. While this protected me from harmful and extreme content, I also missed important life updates from my close friends and family. After taking a web development class and learning how to build a basic card layout, I decided to try building my own social app: Lumira. My goal was simple. I wanted to create a mobile, personal feed of photos just from my friends and family, curated by their genuine interests and sorted by time. Demo https://youtube.com/shorts/DwbVU_LFOc0?si=9H5zPovzIbbW8t-i https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lumira/id6737853449#information The Comeback Story Lumira was born out of 3:00 AM manic coding sessions in my college apartment. This was my first fully end-to-end deployed and distributed application—and it was rocky. My code was chaos. My files were unorganized, and I followed no real patterns, but the thing that motivated me to keep going was that it somehow kind of just worked. I remember the sense of accomplishment I felt the first time I connected to my Firebase backend and saw a photo successf

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built I built So Lai , a local-first profit tracker for small online shops in Vietnam. The goal is simple: help a seller answer the question they often cannot answer from platform revenue alone: Is my shop actually profitable after product cost, marketplace fees, shipping subsidies, discounts, ad spend, returns, and pending COD? So Lai is not trying to be a full POS, CRM, or inventory suite. It focuses on the painful middle layer that many small sellers still manage through scattered spreadsheets: Product cost by SKU Orders from Shopee, TikTok Shop, Facebook, Zalo, or livestream sales Platform fees, shipping cost, vouchers, and discounts Ad spend by channel and SKU Return/cancellation status COD received vs. pending Net profit by order, product, and sales channel The app runs locally with Node.js and JSON storage, so it does not require paid APIs or cloud setup. GitHub repo: https://github.com/klauski24/so-lai Demo Run locally: git clone https://github.com/klauski24/so-lai.git cd so-lai npm start Open: http://127.0.0.1:4182 What the demo shows: A Vietnamese-language dashboard called Sổ Lãi Shop profile setup Clear explanation of where the numbers come from CSV import for products, orders, and ad costs Manual order entry Profit analysis by channel and SKU Alerts for loss-making products, high COD pending, and high return rate CSV and Markdown report export Screenshots are included in the repository: so-lai-desktop.png so-lai-mobile.png The Comeback Story The first version was too vague. It started as an English-named dashboard called ProfitLens . It had some useful calculations, but it did not feel practical yet. The biggest problems were: The app used Vietnamese currency but had an English product name. There was no place to define the shop. It was not clear where the data should come from. The dashboard looked like a demo, not something a seller could actually use. I reworked the project into So

GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge Submission There’s something strangely emotional about reopening an old unfinished game project. Especially one that once felt like “the next big idea” at 2 AM during a hackathon 😭 You open the folder expecting nostalgia… …and instead find: broken UI random commits duplicated code missing assets unfinished features and functions named things like test2_final_REAL.js That’s exactly what happened when I reopened WhatUsee . A multiplayer browser game I originally started building as a fun experimental idea. At first, it wasn’t meant to become anything serious. It was just a simple concept: “What if players had to race against each other to identify hidden objects inside chaotic images?” That tiny idea slowly turned into a real-time multiplayer hidden-object game. And honestly? At the beginning, building it was insanely fun. 💡 The Original Idea Behind WhatUsee Most multiplayer browser games focus on: shooting drawing trivia racing But I wanted something different. Something that created those chaotic: “WAIT I SEE IT—NO WAY 😭” moments. The idea was simple: Players join a room together. An image appears. Somewhere inside that image is: a hidden object an animal a logo a random item or something cleverly camouflaged And everyone races to identify it before the timer ends. Fast reactions. Visual focus. Pure multiplayer chaos. That became WhatUsee . At first, the project was extremely small. Just: Socket.IO basic image display simple guessing and a rough scoreboard No polish. No proper lobby. No smooth UI. But even in that early state… …the game already felt fun. And that’s what made me continue building it. 😭 Then The Project Slowly Got Abandoned Old unfinished WhatUsee multiplayer game interface with basic UI and minimal styling Like most side projects… life happened. College work. Burnout. Other responsibilities. Random unfinished ideas. And slowly, WhatUsee became: “that project I’ll definitely finish later.” The game technically worked.