Developer Relations Lead @Gaia (gaianet.ai)

Judge & Mentor @ ETHDenver, Ex-Head of Platforms & Community @AngelHack.

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Harish Kotra | Hackathons, Developer Relations & No-Code

<h3>AI Anywhere on Your Mac</h3>Hover is a native macOS AI assistant designed to seamlessly integrate into your workflow. It appears right beside your cursor, bringing the power of AI to every application on your Mac. Whether you're writing, coding, summarizing, translating, or explaining, Hover works with your preferred AI models and APIs.<ul><li>Local-First AI: Prioritizes privacy and control by running AI models locally on your machine.</li><li>Context-Aware: Understands selected text to provide relevant AI-powered assistance.</li><li>Works with Your Stack: Supports popular AI tools like LM Studio, Ollama, and any OpenAI-compatible API.</li><li>Privacy-Focused: Your data stays on your device. Hover does not store prompts by default and uses your macOS Keychain for API keys.</li><li>Inline Actions: Instantly explain, rewrite, summarize, translate, or fix grammar without leaving your current application.</li><li>One-Time Purchase: A $10 lifetime license with no subscriptions or cloud lock-in.</li></ul>Hover is built for the moments where productivity usually leaks, making everyday AI tasks faster and more efficient. Simply highlight text in any macOS app, press the shortcut (Command-Shift-X), and get instant AI assistance.

Hover for Mac

HES (Hyderabad Entrepreneurs Society) launched a new initiative: Industry Academia Connect (IAC). As part of IAC, HES will organise: 1. Internship Drives 2. Recruitment Drives 3. Workshops

Industry Academia Connect (IAC)

Researched on what all content could be added onto a web portal of an institution, typically an Engineering College. Decided the requirements, designed wire frames for all the pages and then coded the complete layout of the website in 2 months period of time and got the website live at the end of the 2 months project time limit successfully.

Web Portal for Educational Institution

Droid Campus is an Android application which connects with the web portal of an institution to collect and present information to the user who is either a student or a faculty such as events, time tables, notifications, results, attendance etc. The application uses HTTPClient to connect to the database online and retrieve data to present to the user. 

Droid Campus

FreeCanvas is a fast, local-only Lean Canvas web application designed to streamline your business planning process. This innovative tool allows users to create and manage Lean Canvases directly in their browser without the need for accounts, databases, or backend services. Everything lives in the browser, ensuring your data remains private and secure.<h3>Key Features</h3><ul><li>Classic Lean Canvas Layout: Features stacked columns for Problem/Existing Alternatives, UVP/High Level Concept, Customer Segments/Early Adopters.</li><li>Color-coded Sticky Notes: Easily distinguish between different sections with color-coded notes.</li><li>Local Storage: Save and load your canvases locally using localStorage, with optional autosave functionality.</li><li>Export Options: Export your canvas to PNG or PDF formats for easy sharing and printing.</li><li>Print-ready Layout: A4 landscape layout ensures clean and professional printouts.</li><li>Template Picker: Choose from various templates to kickstart your planning process.</li></ul><h3>Tech Stack</h3><ul><li>Built with Vite, React, and TypeScript for a modern, efficient development experience.</li><li>Client-side only, ensuring no data is sent to any backend.</li><li>Utilizes html2canvas and jspdf for seamless export functionality.</li><li>Optional analytics support with Vercel Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, and Google Analytics.</li></ul>FreeCanvas is an open-source project, inviting contributions from the community to enhance its features and usability.

Free Canvas

ProblemHunt is a community-driven platform designed to inspire makers, developers, and entrepreneurs by focusing on real-world problems. Users can share, discuss, and upvote issues they encounter in daily life or work, making it a valuable resource for those seeking meaningful side projects or startup ideas.<h3>Key Features</h3><ul><li>Browse Problems: Discover a curated feed of real-world problems.</li><li>Upvote &amp; Rank: Community-driven ranking highlights the most pressing issues.</li><li>Discuss: Comment sections allow users to validate problems and brainstorm solutions.</li><li>Magic Link Auth: Seamless login experience powered by Supabase.</li><li>Premium UI: Enjoy a beautiful, dark-themed interface with glassmorphism effects.</li></ul><h3>Tech Stack</h3><ul><li>Frontend: Built with React, Vite, and TypeScript for a responsive and dynamic user experience.</li><li>Backend/DB: Utilizes Supabase for PostgreSQL, authentication, and real-time capabilities.</li><li>Deployment: Hosted on Vercel, ensuring fast and reliable access.</li><li>Analytics: Integrated with Vercel Analytics for insightful data tracking.</li></ul>

ProblemHunt

Project 1356 is a minimalist, offline-first Progressive Web App (PWA) designed to keep you focused on six non-negotiable goals. This application is built on the philosophy that a visual countdown creates the necessary urgency to drive real character development. With a strict mode feature, once you start, you cannot restart or edit goals until the timer runs out or you complete your mission. Shoutout to this (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="break-all link-break text-gray-500 hover:underline" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHPuA8j8LzU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHPuA8j8LzU</a>) for inspiring me to make this.Privacy First: No accounts, no cloud, no tracking. All data is stored locally on your device using localStorage. The app is fully functional offline, thanks to its PWA capabilities, and can be installed on your mobile home screen for a focused experience. The tech stack includes HTML5, CSS3, Vanilla JavaScript, and utilizes a Service Worker for offline caching.

Project 1356

GitGraph is an innovative developer portfolio visualization tool designed to analyze your GitHub activity in 2025 and generate a comprehensive "Year in Code" recap. This tool is powered by Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, which uses AI to infer your skills, determine your developer archetype, and create a shareable social media card. <h3>Key Features </h3><ul><li> 2025 Focus: Specifically analyzes repositories updated in 2025.</li><li>AI Analysis: Utilizes Gemini 2.5 Flash to infer skills, languages, and frameworks even if not explicitly tagged.</li><li>Developer Archetype: Assigns a fun, descriptive "Vibe" or archetype to your coding style, such as "Shipping Velocity Specialist".</li><li>Visualizations: Includes a Tech Stack Bar Chart and Language Focus Pie Chart to display the relative frequency of tools and languages.</li><li>Shareable Card: Generates a downloadable PNG card for social media platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn.</li><li>Flat Aesthetic: Offers a clean, dark-mode design using Tailwind CSS.</li><li>Vercel Analytics: Provides built-in tracking for production metrics. </li></ul><h3>Development</h3>Built with React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and the Google GenAI SDK, GitGraph offers a robust platform for developers to visualize and share their coding achievements.

GitGraph

FarQueue is an innovative on-chain integrated application designed to enhance the Farcaster ecosystem by introducing the essential feature of cast scheduling. This application is not merely a scheduler; it acts as a smart content assistant, leveraging AI to help users craft more engaging casts and publish them at optimal times.<h3>Key Features</h3><ul><li>Smart Scheduling &amp; Automation: Utilize Vercel Cron Jobs for reliable and timely cast publishing.</li><li>AI-Powered Content Studio: Features like AI Rewrite and Engagement Scoring enhance content quality and impact.</li><li>Verifiable On-Chain Identity: Pro users receive a FarQueue Pro Pass NFT as proof of their premium status.</li><li>Seamless Farcaster Integration: Secure sign-in and cast publishing powered by the Neynar SDK.</li><li>Tiered Access Model: Offers a free tier with a simple upgrade path to a "Pro" unlimited plan.</li></ul>FarQueue addresses the challenges faced by creators and brands in scheduling content, enhancing global audience engagement, and improving content strategy efficiency. By recording every key user action on the Base Sepolia blockchain, it ensures transparency and security. The application is built on a robust tech stack including Next.js, React, and Solidity, and is deployed on Vercel, making it a comprehensive solution for content scheduling and management in the Farcaster ecosystem.

FarQueue

ProposalPal AI is a decentralized application (dApp) designed to streamline participation in Cardano governance. This innovative tool provides AI-powered summaries of complex Cardano Improvement Proposals (CIPs), allowing users to easily understand and engage with governance processes. Users can cast votes directly from their wallets and track their engagement on a community leaderboard. Core features include:<ul><li>Intelligent CIP Summaries: Utilizes Gaia Node and a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) model to deliver accurate AI summaries, even for large CIPs.</li><li>Seamless Wallet Integration: Powered by MeshJS SDK, supporting various browser wallets like Vespr, Nami, and Yoroi.</li><li>Interactive Governance &amp; Gamification: Users can vote on CIPs with on-chain transaction metadata, earn points, and track their progress on a gamified leaderboard.</li><li>Credit &amp; On-Chain Payment System: New users receive free AI summary credits, with additional credits purchasable using ADA.</li><li>Modern User Experience: Features a responsive UI, dark/light mode switcher, and an interactive FAQ page.</li></ul>Built with a robust technology stack including React, Vite, Node.js, Express.js, and SQLite, ProposalPal AI integrates blockchain technology through the Blockfrost API, ensuring secure and efficient transactions.

ProposalPal AI

<h2>Vision</h2>poapedu aims to provide each builder their universal skill profile on EDU Chain by consolidating everything they have ever learned, made, and achieved.<h2>Description</h2>Welcome to Poapedu!🐸 poapedu is an education infrastructure platform built on EDU Chain that allows builders to consolidate their learnings and achievements for career and skill planning.<h3>Problem</h3>🤔 How do we prove that we’ve learned and achieve? If you’re thinking of certifications, you’re right. Young adults, especially lifelong learners, accumulate anywhere between 10-30 online and offline, on-chain and off-chain badges and certificates across multiple platforms in their pursuit of knowledge.This fragmentation has led to learners finding it challenging to consolidate their learnings to present a comprehensive profile of who they are, what they have done, and what they can do. Apart from that, the fragmentation lends to a less-than-ideal learning journey and the learners have to identify what steps to take next.<h3>Solution</h3>🧱 We want to consolidate their online and offline, on-chain and off-chain certification and badges through a comprehensive set of wallet and certificate connectors.<ul><li>poapedu NFTs: each badge and certificate has 1:1 poapedu NFT equivalent on EDU Chain.</li><li>Skill mapper: we parse the curriculum from each badge and certificate and derive skill tags for the user. These skill tags are then mapped onto different roles, presenting an intuitive skill gap analysis for the learner</li></ul><h3>Traction</h3>We are partnering up with <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="https://metacamp.so/">Metacamp</a>, a leading web3 coding academy based in Singapore. They store their students' certificates on Solana, and they'll be working with us on badging the certs on EDU Chain as well.<h3>Current and future roadmap</h3>💰 While consolidation is the our step, we’re passionate about outcomes – jobs and income opportunities. Learners can either proceed with educating themselves further, or partake in income-generating opportunities. We hope that on-chain certification and proof of learning leads to more employment opportunities, be it off-chain or via OC ecosystem.

Harish Kotra

Developer Relations Lead @Gaia (gaianet.ai) Judge & Mentor @ ETHDenver, Ex-Head of Platforms & Community @AngelHack.