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I Built DukaanDraft: A Local AI Content Studio for Small Businesses

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Small businesses selling through Instagram, WhatsApp, and online marketplaces often spend a surprising amount of time writing product descriptions, social media captions, and sales messages. For a small clothing reseller or independent shop owner, every new product means another round of writing…

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I built an open-source "approval gate" for AI agents — here's why

AI agents are increasingly given real permissions — sending payments, emails, deleting files — often with little to no governance layer in between.

  • InGravity intercepts AI agent actions for approval, blocking or delaying as needed.
  • Tool evaluates actions against user-defined rules via risk scoring API.
  • Open-source project seeks feedback, currently available at GitHub.

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Kokoro read 'Chapter IV' as 'Chapter Roman Four'. So I gave it a proofreader with ears.

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built An indie author with fifteen novels has fifteen audiobooks they will probably never make.

  • Indie author created Backlist tool for narrating audiobooks
  • Kokoro voice model and Whisper speech recognizer used
  • Tool works entirely on user's laptop, no additional setup

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