Hacktoberfest 開源 AI 挑戰第 3 週得獎者揭曉

Highlights winning offline AI laziness tools

The results are in for Week 3 of our five Hacktoberfest DEV Challenges! For Slow and Steady, we asked you to channel your inner sloth and build something with open-weight models or open-source AI that rewards laziness.

The builds we saw were anything but lazy. Many of you showed exactly why open innovation matters for this kind of work: automations that run offline, keep personal messages and files on your own machine, and cost nothing to keep running once they're set up.

Thank you to everyone who built with us this week. Now, let's celebrate our winners!

🎉 Congratulations To…

Featured Category Winners

Best Use of Render

Best Use of TabPFN

Best Use of Tinker

A small, not-so-smart model went from 10% to 99.6% at reading property deeds for $1.15, and it says 'check this line' instead of bluffing

Best Use of Arduino

I sleep 4 hours a night because of email, so I built a sloth that reads it for me (Gemma 4 on an Arduino UNO Q)

Best Use of DigitalOcean

Best Use of Gemma

Partner Category Winners

Best Use of Auth0 for AI Agents

Best Use of Backboard

Best Use of Browserbase

Best Use of ElevenLabs

Talk to the Book: dictating the book I owe 57 people

Best Use of Entire

Best Use of GitHub Copilot

Best Use of Mastra

Best Use of MongoDB Atlas

Best Use of Sentry Agent Tracing

Best Use of SerpApi

Best Use of Temporal

Best Use of Tiger Data

Best Use of Ultramarine

Best Use of a .tech Domain

Prizes

• Overall winner: $250 USD, a DEV++ membership, and an exclusive DEV badge
• Featured category winners: $200 USD and an exclusive DEV badge each
• Partner category winners: $100 USD and an exclusive DEV badge each

All participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge.

A huge thank you to our partners for making these prizes possible!

What's Next?

There's still time to join our final Hacktoberfest challenge! Week 4 runs through October 31: build something spooky, or honor the past in the spirit of Día de los Muertos, using open-weight models or open-source AI.

You can find all five challenges on the HF26 DEV Challenge Hub.

Happy Hacktoberfest! 🦥