Hacktoberfest
An annual open-source contribution event hosted by DigitalOcean, held each October. The event encourages developers to submit pull requests to open-source projects on GitHub, and participants who meet the contribution requirements are eligible to receive developer tool rewards and merchandise.
Core Facts
Hacktoberfest is a global open-source contribution event initiated by DigitalOcean and held every October.
Hacktoberfest is hosted by DigitalOcean, held every October, and encourages developers to submit Pull Requests to open-source projects on GitHub.
CodeWalk is an entry for Week 1 "Touch Grass" of the Hacktoberfest Open Source AI Challenge.
Timeline (last 90 days)
In October 2026, the DEV community Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge entered its third week, and the author was looking for project ideas.
IdleWheels is an entry in the Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge; the project is already live on Render, with code hosted on GitHub, including a complete static demo version.
The Dirwise repository has Hacktoberfest-friendly beginner tasks posted, including German translation, Rust unit tests, and interface work, and the author welcomes real Rust developers to review the code.
VITRide was submitted by developer @parthlightning in the Hacktoberfest Open Source AI Challenge.
Invoice AI is an open-source project submitted by developer dotsource123 in the Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge.
PaperToProfit is an open-source project submitted by developer Sapnil M in the Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge, licensed under MIT and hosted on GitHub.
The author submitted the Stanza project in the second week of the Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge, in the Side Hustle category.
TapWait AI entered the "Best Use of Gemma" category in the challenge.
OrderMint is a project submitted by developer ohm-7643 in the second week of the Hacktoberfest Open Source AI Challenge (Side Hustle track), aimed at converting unstructured customer messages into structured order drafts that sellers review before generating invoices.
The LedgerPrep Lite project was submitted in Week 2 of the Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge and is participating in the "Best Use of Gemma" award.
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Hacktoberfest is a global open-source contribution event initiated by DigitalOcean and held every October.
70%VerifiedHacktoberfest is hosted by DigitalOcean, held every October, and encourages developers to submit Pull Requests to open-source projects on GitHub.
70%Partially VerifiedCodeWalk is an entry for Week 1 "Touch Grass" of the Hacktoberfest Open Source AI Challenge.
65%UnverifiedOutside was built by developer defiantlydefying for the Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge (Touch Grass theme).
60%UnverifiedPalette Walk is a small local prototype submitted for Hacktoberfest Open Source AI Challenge Week 1 "Touch Grass".
60%UnverifiedThe Dirwise repository has Hacktoberfest-friendly beginner tasks posted, including German translation, Rust unit tests, and interface work, and the author welcomes real Rust developers to review the code.
50%UnverifiedVITRide was submitted by developer @parthlightning in the Hacktoberfest Open Source AI Challenge.
50%UnverifiedInvoice AI is an open-source project submitted by developer dotsource123 in the Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge.
50%UnverifiedPaperToProfit is an open-source project submitted by developer Sapnil M in the Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge, licensed under MIT and hosted on GitHub.
50%UnverifiedHoldfast is a project submitted by developer Tanay in the Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge, used to solve the problem of lost Webhook messages.
50%UnverifiedHireLens AI is an open-weight recruiting platform project submitted by developer kusalar in the Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge, aimed at providing small businesses with resume parsing, job matching, candidate comparison and recruiting funnel features.
50%UnverifiedPrintBrief is a project submitted by developer SaifuddinM23 in the Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge; it is open-sourced on GitHub and includes front-end and back-end implementations and a demo video.
50%UnverifiedInkFlow is a submission for the second week of the Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge, classified as a "Side Hustle Submission" and tagged with #devchallenge, #hf26challenge, #ai, and #opensource.
50%UnverifiedNaveen joined the DEV community to participate in Hacktoberfest and plans to keep sharing.
50%UnverifiedFlipPrice is an open-source project submitted by existentialcoder in the Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge; users take a single photo and get a suggested price and range, the 5 closest sold records, ready-to-publish listing copy, and the tool can learn the user's pricing habits.
50%UnverifiedHacktoberfest is an open-source contribution event held every October since 2014 by DigitalOcean, where participants who submit a certain number of pull requests within one month can receive rewards such as a T-shirt or a tree seedling.
50%UnverifiedThe developer built a working tipsofday prototype in about a week, and after the code was open-sourced, others can directly fork and modify it.
50%UnverifiedPolicyLens AI is an open-source project submitted by developer Manjusha Pirati in the Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge, which uses a local large model to break down insurance contracts of more than 50 pages into structured, plain English summaries.
50%UnverifiedHacktoberfest is an annual open-source contribution event initiated by DigitalOcean, and in recent years some tracks require projects to use open AI components, which conflicts with developers using Gemini.
50%UnverifiedSponsorPulse is a local-first smart pricing desk for creators, UGC writers and newsletter writers, adopting a combination of "quantitative engine + local small model + numerical firewall".
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