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Golden Hour Catcher

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built Golden Hour Walk tells you exactly when to leave the house to catch the best light of the day.

  • Golden Hour Catcher is an open-source app for optimal walking times
  • Calculates sunrise/sunset, golden hour start/end, departure time
  • Generates friendly plan via WebLLM model with guardrail validation

Why "works on my machine" often means "I'm still in variant B" — QA rules for testing behind A/B experiments and feature flags

If your product ships behind A/B experiments and feature flags, your QA team has a failure mode nobody tracks: variant amnesia .

  • Variant amnesia occurs when QA team members forget which experiment variant they are in.
  • Unexpected behavior leads to bug reports without realizing the user is still in variant B.
  • QA team implemented rules and a tool to streamline testing behind A/B experiments.

My Instagram mention monitoring kept breaking, so I automated it

I got tired of checking Instagram manually. This was for a small online store. We wanted to notice when someone tagged the account or mentioned it, mostly so those posts wouldn't just sit there…

  • Reporter automated Instagram mention monitoring due to tedious manual checking.
  • Used HikerAPI for Instagram API integration, simplifying workflow.
  • New setup easier to maintain, reporter curious about other automation efforts.

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