Driftnet: one box that catches everything I would otherwise forget
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built I built Driftnet for my friend Samuel . Before I wrote any code I asked him one question: what is actually going wrong for you? Samuel is always busy and always building something, and ideas, links and opportunities reach him from everywhere. He did not give me a feature list. He told me a story. I came…
Driftnet is a tool created by the author for their friend Samuel to help manage ideas, links, and opportunities from various sources. Before coding, the author asked Samuel what was bothering him, and he provided a story about ideas and information slipping through the cracks. The idea for Driftnet came from copying a hackathon link and seeing how quickly the author lost track of ideas.
Driftnet is designed to catch, structure, and act on whatever you throw at it, eliminating the need for multiple note-taking apps and reducing friction between capturing and acting on information. It uses an Agent framework to classify and extract the capture, a Gemma 4 model for structured extraction, and ElevenLabs Scribe for voice-to-text conversion.
The tool is built with Next.js, Tailwind, and hosted on Render. The author's hope is that users will keep using Driftnet and find it useful, as demonstrated by Samuel's positive reaction.
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