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FOSS Hack

FOSS Hack 2026

Hybrid
Sunday, 1 March 2026
Tuesday, 31 March 2026
Starts at 8:00 AM
Ends at 6:00 PM
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Description

India's Largest FOSS Hackathon.


FOSS Hack is back for its sixth edition\! With the month-long hybrid hackathon, we bring together students, professionals and communities to contribute better to Free and Open Source software projects. Dive right in!


What is FOSS Hack? - Learn here.

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Hackathon Rules
  1. Evaluation based on contributions made during the event duration
  2. Core functionality shouldn't depend on closed-source software or closed/proprietary APIs
  3. Your project must have a valid FOSS license
  4. The cash prize will be split among the winners at the discretion of the jury
  5. No blockchain/web3 or crypto projects. Why?
  6. Check out the rules page for more details


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REALIS
A physics-faithful virtual prototyping system that designs, simulates, and validates machines digitally before they exist in the real world
REALIS
Dependency Tracker
DependencyTracker is a Java developer tool that analyzes application dependencies and visualizes class-level and package-level relationships as an interactive graph. A key feature of the library is its ability to automatically initialize and start the application even when startup errors occur, enabling developers to inspect dependency issues, detect circular references, and debug architecture problems without blocking the application lifecycle.
Techforge
hallx
Multi-Modal Hallucination Management Library for Production LLM Pipelines
DevGrove
HACKED PROJECT: Security Audit PoC
Demonstrating Unauthorized Project Creation
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Decentralized Consent Protocol
An open, interoperable, peer-to-peer protocol for DPDP Act 2023–compliant digital consent workflows
Team AYANites
VizhiTamil OCR
Desktop application for performing OCR on images and PDF files
Kaniyam Foundation
ORIGIN AI
ORIGIN AI is not just a chatbot. It is a hybrid(online + offline) AI system which helps you ideate, code and build things. Be your automation bot, help you do things and takeover your repetitive tasks.
ORIGIN
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AR-Based Museum Tour
An immersive AR platform built with React and Three.js that transforms museum visits into interactive digital journeys through 3D artifact exploration and virtual portals.
Portal Logic
rclone
Rclone ("rsync for cloud storage") is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.
aoeui
Open-Source FPGA Image Processing Core
An open-source FPGA-based image processing core implementing real-time grayscale, inversion, and brightness control using Verilog HDL.
Pravalika
Productivity App Prototype
Created a simple prototype to help students manage tasks, reminders, and schedules.
Solo Explorer
Delhi Sudarshan
A platform that register real life grievance from the citizens only through Ai chatbot and track all the complaints through it
ROOT IT UP
ghost
An anonymous, decentralized and peer-to-peer messenger over I2P
coldmartian
Eventio
Free & Open Source Event Management system
Byte Bandits
CommitSense
A local open-source companion that turns debugging context into meaningful commits, auto-triages PRs, and keeps maintainers sane.
Push & Pray
ChordCtrl
blending the love for music and video games together
ChordCtrl
DockFleet
Lightweight container orchestration for solo developers and small teams
CrypticByte
Swadesh Stack
"Swadesh Stack" - Terminal social network where devs crowdsource compute for FOSS AI models AND monitor/archive Indian gov sites. Federated nodes, CLI-first, P2P training rewards, public infrastructure watchdog built-in.
Polite fellas
VidEd
VidEd is a video editor like other editing apps (adobe and davinci)
OS Devs
EyeComm - An Assistive Communication Tool using Vision Based Input
EyeComm empowers hands-free communication by converting eye movements into text and system interactions using computer vision.
CodeCatalyst
ScopeFS - Filesystem based Sandboxing for Linux Applications
A Linux command-line tool that lets users run applications with restricted filesystem access on a per-run basis by exposing only explicitly allowed directories inside a temporary sandbox.
STRANGER
SubZero
"An automated financial utility that uses OCR and pattern recognition to identify, track, and kill unwanted recurring subscription charges."
Pixel
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FossLore
Lore in Foss
Team Awesome
Hey Dongle - Offline AI Coding Assistant
USB-portable offline AI assistant for developers without reliable internet. Works on restricted networks, fully FOSS, zero cloud dependency.
The 404 Brain Not Found
Handheld Py Gaming Console
A hand-held gaming console inspired by the GameBoy .
MicroPyGamers
BentoPDF
The Privacy First PDF Toolkit
BentoPDF
Verify Lens
An open-source forensic toolkit designed to identify AI-generated imagery through multi-layered analysis—combining frequency domain artifacts, semantic inconsistency detection, and C2PA metadata verification.
Four For Good
ParamStock
Real-time Whatsapp stock alerter
purble masters
OpenCare Hospital Management System
An open source web application for hospital appointment booking and patient record management.
RKK