SlothScroll: I Taught Gemma to Read Instagram So I Never Have To

Description and use

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week3-2026-10-19">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>Every morning I opened Instagram "just to catch up", and every morning the feed won. One quick check became another, with ads, reposts and giveaways in between.</p> <p><strong>SlothScroll</strong> is my lazy fix. It's a morning digest of the Instagram pages I follow. Once a day a cloud browser visits those pages for me. <strong>Gemma</strong>, Google's open-weight model, reads every new post

Problem

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week3-2026-10-19">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>Every morning I opened Instagram "just to catch up", and every morning the feed won. One quick check became another, with ads, reposts and giveaways in between.</p> <p><strong>SlothScroll</strong> is my lazy fix. It's a morning digest of the Instagram pages I follow. Once a day a cloud browser visits those pages for me. <strong>Gemma</strong>, Google's open-weight model, reads every new post

Outcome

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week3-2026-10-19">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>Every morning I opened Instagram "just to catch up", and every morning the feed won. One quick check became another, with ads, reposts and giveaways in between.</p> <p><strong>SlothScroll</strong> is my lazy fix. It's a morning digest of the Instagram pages I follow. Once a day a cloud browser visits those pages for me. <strong>Gemma</strong>, Google's open-weight model, reads every new post

Evidence

SlothScroll: I Taught Gemma to Read Instagram So I Never Have To

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