FOSSHACK Hackathon Results

Hacked to Victory Winners & Commendation of FOSS Hack
1 - 31 Mar 2026 | Hybrid
FOSS Hack 2026
Total Teams 2361
5430 Participants
Community Partners 12

FOSS United Platform

Winner ₹ 50,000

Non-profit foundation for promoting the Free and Open Source Software community and ecosystem in India. This repository contains the foundation's own projects.

Team: segfault


Law Adda

Winner ₹ 50,000

We all have problems in understanding our legal notices and all due to complex language of law . Law adda solves this problem by elaborating your legal notices , and by telling you what's important for you to know.

Team: CodeSlayer


Nodefy

Winner ₹ 25,000

Nodefy is an open-source cloud platform that helps students learn about cloud infrastructure and how real-world cloud systems work. They can explore and learn different types of Linux environments. We teach them from scratch, and they can also build multiple instances to understand how multinode architecture works in real-world production systems. And also, they can deploy their application by providing a GitHub repository link. We install all dependencies for their application and teach them how to start their app server, how to deploy their app, and make it publicly available.

Team: CodeAstrals


22 - 23 Feb 2025 | Hybrid
FOSS Hack 2025
Total Teams 2190
5394 Participants
Community Partners 11

Sound Sketch

Commendation

Sound Sketch is a creative web app where users can "draw" musical notes on a canvas. Each stroke represents a unique sound, with customizable instruments, scales, and notes. Once drawn, users can playback their sketch and listen to their musical creation.

Team: SANS


27 - 28 Jul 2024 | Hybrid
FOSS Hack 2024
4th-5th March 2023 | Hybrid
FOSS Hack 3.0
Total Teams 196
1014 Participants
Community Partners 30

Helios

Winner ₹1,00,000

A 6-degree-of-freedom rocket model simulation that accurately models the motion of a rocket in flight, taking into account atmospheric conditions, turbulence, and aerodynamic parameters.

Ronan
Ronan
Darpan
Darpan
Ashwin
Ashwin

Raven

Winner ₹1,00,000

A simple, open-source team messaging platform similar to Slack. Built using the Frappe framework and can be installed in existing Frappe/ERPNext instances.

Nikhil
Nikhil
Aditya
Aditya
Janhvi
Janhvi

API Dash

Winner ₹50,000

A cross-platform HTTP Client that can help you explore APIs.

Ankit
Ankit
Ashita
Ashita

DISS-lexia

Winner ₹50,000

A Chrome extension for those suffering from Dyslexia to read websites easily.

Maheswaran
Maheswaran
Avinash
Avinash
Joel
Joel

VSCode Advanced Search

Winner ₹25,000

Quick-Wictionary

Winner ₹25,000

Browser extension to get the meaning of a selected word from Wiktionary.

Keerthana
Keerthana
Prabakaran
Prabakaran
Ram
Ram
Soundarya
Soundarya

Open Assistant Safety Team

Winner ₹25,000

Datasets to build a safety model for OpenAssistant (an open-source alternative to ChatGPT). Flags potentially malicious user requests.

Jithin
Jithin
Shahul
Shahul

Kukkee

Winner ₹10,000

A meeting poll tool.

Anand
Anand

Snipd

Winner ₹10,000

Browser extension to annotate and organize notes, articles, and PDF files across multiple web pages.

Alaap
Alaap
Chanakya
Chanakya
Yathin
Yathin
Aditya
Aditya

Waymond

Winner ₹10,000

Monitors the number of docker containers running for a given spec and manages containers similar to Kubernetes. Implemented in Go.

Vishnu
Vishnu

Spell4wiki

Winner ₹10,000

Mobile app for uploading audio files to Wikimedia commons and Wiktionary-based multilingual dictionary.

Manimaran
Manimaran
Kanagasabapathy
Kanagasabapathy
Seenuvasan
Seenuvasan

Vizhi Tamil

Winner ₹10,000

Android application for visually impaired individuals.

Khaleel
Khaleel
Hari
Hari
Vignesh
Vignesh
Ponneelan
Ponneelan

Wiki-Bulky

Winner ₹10,000

Bulk download of media files from Wikimedia commons & Bulk upload of words with meaning to Wiktionary.

Viji
Viji
Kowsalya
Kowsalya
Deepak
Deepak
Dilip
Dilip

DNArchery

Winner ₹10,000

A DNA Sequencing/Visualization software for bioinformatics research.

Mufeed
Mufeed
Vivek
Vivek
Vishal
Vishal

Cherava

Winner ₹10,000

Zero code web scraping automation tool.

Roshan
Roshan
Sudev
Sudev
Ajay
Ajay

13-14 November 2021 | Virtual
FOSS Hack 2021
Total Teams 120
1302 Participants

mquictt

Winner ₹1,00,000

A Rust library for MQTT over QUIC, leveraging the concurrent streams of QUIC to multiplex the MQTT publishes and subscribes within separate streams per topic.

Abhik Jain
Abhik Jain
Devdutt Shenoi
Devdutt Shenoi

Varnam Input Method for Mac

Winner ₹1,00,000

Easily type Indian languages on any app in Mac natively using the Varnam transliteration engine.

Subin Siby
Subin Siby

Diode

Winner ₹50,000

An easy to use API proxy to hide your API secrets and add common middlewares without implementing a backend.

Akash Hamirwasia
Akash Hamirwasia

DigiStore

Winner ₹50,000

A self-hostable platform to list and sell digital assets like e-books, audio etc. Open Source Gumroad!

Hussain Nagaria
Hussain Nagaria

OpenAuthenticator

Winner ₹25,000

A simple open-source, cross-platform, TOTP-based Authenticator for desktop.

Pranit Chadda
Pranit Chadda
Aaryak Garg
Aaryak Garg
Arsh Kohli
Arsh Kohli
Paarth Chhabra
Paarth Chhabra

KnowledgeBase.Tech

Winner ₹25,000

Modern open-source knowledge base using markdown.

Gigin Chandy George
Gigin Chandy George
Vinu TV
Vinu TV
Vignesh Hari
Vignesh Hari
Bodhish Thomas
Bodhish Thomas

epub2sphinx

Winner ₹25,000

Tool to convert epub file to ReST files for Sphinx.

Allwin Raju
Allwin Raju
Nihaal
Nihaal
Aswin C
Aswin C
Aravindhan Pugazhendhi
Aravindhan Pugazhendhi

Planarity

Winner ₹25,000

A puzzle: Arrange the given graph such that the edges intersect only at the vertices.

Asmita Hase
Asmita Hase

Canned Analytics in Avni

Winner ₹25,000

Introduce canned analytics in the field work and data collection platform Avni so that users get some basic reports and insights out of the box.

Vinod Deolal
Vinod Deolal
Vinay Venu
Vinay Venu
Arjun Khandelwal
Arjun Khandelwal

Joy(x)p5js

Winner ₹25,000

Providing joy, a tiny creative coding library, as a port to p5.js.

Anushka Trivedi
Anushka Trivedi

GramUp

Winner ₹25,000

A lightweight python program to backup your files using unlimited cloud backup via Telegram.

sunithvs
sunithvs
SANU MUHAMMED C
SANU MUHAMMED C
Rohit T P
Rohit T P

Certificates Ninja

Winner ₹25,000

A free and open-source web application for event organizers to easily create immutable and tamper resistant certificates powered by Blockchain and NFTs.

Adithya Menon S
Adithya Menon S
Bhuvanesh T G
Bhuvanesh T G
Kumaraguru
Kumaraguru

Cuckoo Dooku

Commendation

A browser alert extension that helps you develop a healthy work routine. Reminds you to chill out, stretch, drink water and be the best version of yourself.

Vignesh Palanisamy
Vignesh Palanisamy
Omkar Pote
Omkar Pote
Raghav Singhal
Raghav Singhal

Rabbit Hole v2

Commendation

A browser extension that tracks your journey through Wikipedia to create a map of your knowledge base.

Anirudh Varma
Anirudh Varma

dtcalc

Commendation

A command line tool written in Python to find the difference between dates.

Julin Shaji
Julin Shaji

12-13 September 2020 | Virtual
FOSS Hack 2020
Total Teams 150
3384 Participants
Community Partners 22

Fika

Winner ₹5,00,000

A statically typed, web-first programming language that runs on BEAM (Erlang VM). Aims to lower the entry barrier to the Erlang ecosystem with simplified syntax.

Emil Soman
Emil Soman

Untab

Winner ₹50,000

A productivity tool that's immediately useful to a wide audience. Well designed and feature-complete with good UX and UI.

Akash Hamirwasia
Akash Hamirwasia

MergePro

Winner ₹50,000

A developer productivity tool that helps manage GitHub PRs inside a browser extension widget. Immediately useful and feature-complete.

Abhinav Singh
Abhinav Singh
Arjita Chaurasia
Arjita Chaurasia

BrainTree

Winner ₹25,000

A stand-alone, local, note taking and mind-map tool with a clean UI and good UX, packaged nicely as an MVP.

Akshit Garg
Akshit Garg

ebb

Winner ₹25,000

An app that aims at helping manage stress and anxiety via personal tasks and goals. An interesting hypothesis presented as a polished, complete product.

Liyas Thomas
Liyas Thomas
Andrew Bastin
Andrew Bastin

Privacy Indicator App

Winner ₹25,000

An app that notifies the user of camera and microphone use on Android. Immediately useful, and addresses an important privacy and security issue.

Nitish Gadangi
Nitish Gadangi

Dalal

Winner ₹25,000

An app for receiving, transforming, and forwarding HTTP requests with a simple UI, and a publicly hosted live version.

Naresh Ramesh
Naresh Ramesh
Mukul Chaware
Mukul Chaware
Shubham Jain
Shubham Jain

Rumqtt

Winner ₹25,000

Added MQTT5 support to the Rust MQTT library, a great value addition to the Rust ecosystem.

Ravi Teja
Ravi Teja

lazykubernetes

Winner ₹25,000

A developer productivity CUI tool for managing K8s clusters. Solves a specific DevOps UX problem with a nice command line UI.

Santhosh Nagaraj
Santhosh Nagaraj
Nityananda Gohain
Nityananda Gohain
Gnanesh Kunal
Gnanesh Kunal

Userly

Commendation

A self-hosted app for conducting and managing user surveys and research.

Rohan Rajpal
Rohan Rajpal
Avi Garg
Avi Garg
Royal Tomar
Royal Tomar
Srijan Jain
Srijan Jain

Zettel

Commendation

A self-hosted note taking and publishing tool.

Karan Sharma
Karan Sharma
Sarat Chandra
Sarat Chandra

A clever, tiny chess engine that lets humans win. Comes with a nice playable UI.

Aditya Hase
Aditya Hase
Saqib Ansari
Saqib Ansari

ScanIn

Commendation

A fully local Android application for scanning and managing documents.

Kumaraguru
Kumaraguru
Emma Thomas
Emma Thomas
Dhanush Vardhan Kalaiselvan
Dhanush Vardhan Kalaiselvan
Mridula Kalaiselvan
Mridula Kalaiselvan

Markd

Commendation

A self-hosted bookmarking app with a nice UI.

Shivam Mishra
Shivam Mishra