I struggled to understand Hacktoberfest winners projects, so I built ReadYou to summarize them—and let me talk to the projects

Description and use

ReadYou automates the collection, filtering, summarization, and conversational presentation of Hacktoberfest winner projects, reducing manual effort and improving comprehension.

Problem

Users find it hard to grasp the essence of Hacktoberfest winner projects because documentation is dense and technical.

Outcome

ReadYou automates the extraction, filtering, summarization, and conversational presentation of Hacktoberfest winner projects, reducing manual effort and improving comprehension.

Workflow

• 1. Scrape Hacktoberfest winner announcements from DEV
• 2. Retrieve up to five linked READMEs per announcement
• 3. Classify each README for relevance using a JSON classifier (confidence ≥0.85)
• 4. Include only confidently relevant READMEs in the prompt to Gemma 4 E2B
• 5. Generate project briefings and answer questions with supporting quotes
• 6. Store summaries and cache history to allow targeted regeneration
• 7. Schedule automatic scans every 3 h and email digests when new winners are found
• 8. Provide a voice chatbot (Voice Mentor) that accepts typed or spoken queries and returns spoken answers via ElevenLabs

Evidence

ReadYou collects Hacktoberfest winner announcements and turns the projects into readable technical briefings, short audio introductions, and conversations about individual projects.

Source

The classifier returns structured JSON with a relevance decision and confidence score. The backend requires a score of at least 0.85.

Source

I’m running gemma4:e2b locally through Ollama.

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