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Signal Garden: A Game Engine That Keeps Mutating

Jun 16

• 4

Noteworthy

Jun 15

• 1

Yui Home Assistant — teaching a 3B model to write Home Assistant automations that actually work

Jun 15

Teaching a 4B Model to Run a City-Wide Scavenger Hunt — Without Naming a Single Street

Jun 15

Building the NPC Generator

Jun 15

🌿 Elysium: Building a Persistent Agentic Civilization on a Bioluminescent Hypergraph

Jun 15

Sozai — Build Memories Together

Jun 15

• 1

NIGHTWAVE — a whole all-night radio station run by a one-billion-parameter brain

Jun 15

• 1

The Mountain Called Unnecessary

Jun 15

• 1

I built a world you can talk into existence

Jun 15

6ixPulse: piloting agentic neighbourhood research, starting with Toronto

Jun 15

Slipstream: a benchmark for mid-flight project forecasting, and a small agent that blends the best methods

Jun 15

• 1

GrandVoice: A Multilingual Voice Companion for Grandparents, Kids, and Families

Jun 15

Open to Work: The Musical — distilling a 20B lyricist into a 0.5B model that runs on CPU

Jun 15

Ink-Wash Universe: A Developer’s Chronicle of Building a Local LLM Traditional Liuyao Divination App (FateForge) at a Hackathon

Jun 15

Professor Pip - a tiny teacher who lives in your browser

Jun 15

• 1

🧬 Carbon-VEPor: Efficient Variant Effect Prediction with Carbon

Jun 15

• 4

DiffSense: A Local-First Pull Request Reviewer Built During Build Small

Jun 15

From "Play My Workout Playlist" to a Real Android Tap Plan

Jun 15

• 1

Building an AI Interview Coach for the BuildSmall Hackathon 2026

Jun 15

• 6

FitCheck: What AI can your computer actually run?

Jun 15

Wardrobe AI: Shop Your Own Closet with a 4B Model

Jun 15

The Invention of Narrating — building Small Cuts

Jun 15

Building Figment For Build Small: What I Learned About Making Small Models Useful

Jun 15

Small Models, Bounded Jobs: Building Lesson Agent for the Hugging Face Build Small Hackathon

Jun 15

• 1

Three Tiny Models, One Bedtime Story

Jun 15

Caro5 Day 6 part 1: Reviewing 🍄

Jun 15

Minecraftify: Turning Real Images into Minecraft Worlds with FLUX.2-Klein

Jun 15

• 1

Chhaya: teaching a 4B model to be the eyes, not the doctor

Jun 15

• 3

Viva Mais AI: 1B models for one person

Jun 15

• 1

Building "YourGymBuddy" – A Race Against Time, Modal Fine-Tuning, and the Power of Local AI

Jun 15

• 1

Moku: The Word That Wouldn't Stay Put

Jun 15

Epic Errands

Jun 15

Floodlight Venue Manager Running Notes

Jun 15

🌾 KrishiSathi — From Farmer Problems to AI-Powered Agricultural Intelligence

Jun 15

Quantization is the safety blind spot of local AI — so I built the screen for it

Jun 15

• 1

The Office Meets Silicon Valley

Jun 15

• 8

Anim Vid AI: Turning Any Concept Into a Manim Animation With Fine-Tuned Small Models

Jun 15

• 2

Constellation of Hope - Build Small

Jun 15

• 1

Meet Puck

Jun 15

How I Built AI Picture Book

Jun 15

Local Privacy Filtering for Shareable Agent Traces

Jun 15

Interview Coach: Real-Time, Local Interview Assistance Without Taking Over the Answer

Jun 15

Off the Grid, On Schedule

Jun 15

• 3

Shamsher: Predicting Football Matches

Jun 15

Typotopia

Jun 15

LocalDuo — Build Small Hackathon Field Notes

Jun 15

• 1

GharScan: Teaching a 2B-Parameter Model to Read Indian Walls

Jun 15

• 1

500 Million Farmers, One Fragile Phone Line

Jun 15

• 2

Building MatchWise🃏: Turning a 1B Model into a Tiny Game Director

Jun 15

Building MiniCPM Financial RAG: Financial Document Intelligence with Small Models

Jun 15

Building Parallel Plate: A Solo Journey into AI-Native Digital Twin Cooking

Jun 15

Building Kids Education AI: Turning Small Models into a Complete Learning Companion for Children

Jun 15

TinyPress, Tokens, and Learning to Say More with Less

Jun 15

Moku: The Forest Had No Dictionary

Jun 15

Tiny Civilization: I Built a Persistent Woodland Newspaper Powered by a 1.5B Model

Jun 15

How I Built AI Puzzle Maker

Jun 15

How I Built Run Reachy Run

Jun 15

I Built Judge-Copilot for Someone I'll Never Meet

Jun 15

• 2

Eyas: AI Security Camera Agent

Jun 15

• 6

Token bills, kill switches — why I fine-tuned a UX writing model you can own

Jun 15

I Built the Anti-LinkedIn — An AI Platform That Rewards Honesty, Roasts Braggarts, and Turns Your Workplace Chaos Into a Podcast

Jun 14

• 1

Ani Kɛse: a small-model care loop for Ghanaian families

Jun 14

Aerosphere: A Three.js Planetary Sandbox

Jun 14

• 1

Arcana: Tarot Deck Generator and Reader

Jun 14

• 2

Closet Twin: Your AI-Powered Personal Stylist Built for the Build Small Hackathon

Jun 14

• 4

Building Mycelium for the Build Small Hackathon

Jun 14

In your own wor(l)ds: the tiny model in your browser is your writing rival!

Jun 14

Vitál: A Wellness OS for People Who Live at Their Laptops

Jun 14

• 1

Agentic Humanitarian Data Analyst — a small model that writes the plan before it runs the numbers

Jun 14

• 1

whatfirst · small — what to do first, on a 3B model, fully offline

Jun 14

• 2

Rune Goblin: An AI Dungeon Crawler Where Your Doodles Become Spells

Jun 14

• 2

Building Solace Space: How I Fine-Tuned a 1B LLM for Emotional Intelligence and Local Deployment

Jun 14

• 1

Hackathon Advisor: A Living Field Guide for Hackathon Builders

Jun 14

AI Puppet Theater: From Premise to Puppet Show

Jun 14

• 3

Split-Brain Co-Pilot: local-first coding with a 1.5B browser model and a 14B verifier

Jun 14

• 2

Behind the Scenes of The Grand Tribunal: Fine-Tuning Philosophers and Dynamic AI Judging

Jun 14

• 2

Field Notes: Putting a Chinese Trading Theory on a Fine-Tuned 1.7B

Jun 14

• 2

Lost & Found Desk: small models for staff-controlled item return

Jun 14

• 1

Professor Wren's Story Rooms

Jun 14

ToneBridge: Fine-Tuning a Small Mandarin Coach for Context-Aware Corrections

Jun 14

• 1

Building TutorDesk AI — An On-Laptop Copilot for Indian Tuition Teachers

Jun 14

Epic Errands V1 Quick Eval: Text-First Agent Traces

Jun 14

Teaching a 1B Model to Speak Puppet JSON

Jun 14

• 4

Field Notes: Perfector(Post Audit) — a brief-aware social-post auditor in 4.5B params

Jun 14

PacketCourt: The packet takes the stand

Jun 14

• 1

I built a soap chemistry AI after someone said "tallow maybe?"

Jun 14

Voice Reach Running Notes

Jun 14

Momo: Become Local in 30 Seconds

Jun 14

• 2

Field Notes: Building a Chest X-ray Draft Auditor with Two Tiny 4B Models — MedGemma and NVIDIA Nemotron

Jun 14

• 1

ZeroWasteKitchen: five small models, one banana curry, and what 4B parameters are actually for

Jun 14

How I Built an AI Auditor for India's 12 Million Kirana Stores

Jun 14

unplug-tiny: a 22M-parameter prompt-injection firewall that tells you where the attack is

Jun 13

• 1

Blood Test Explainer, teaching a 1.3B model to read your lab report, offline

Jun 13

• 2

Twenty-four minds on one laptop, in airplane mode: the engineering behind mAIndlock

Jun 13

• 1

Six tiny minds in a skull: NPCs built on decision neuroscience, not a personality prompt

Jun 13

One Engine, Three Costumes

Jun 13

Playable Woods and a Fishbowl to Watch Them

Jun 13

You Are a Bug: A Hackathon Diary Post

Jun 13

Read the Room: build-smol-hackathon

Jun 13

Mumbai Local: when the AI runs the trains, and you are the chaos

Jun 13

• 1

Building Mystery-Mail Guardian: A Project for build-small-hackathon

Jun 13

Building Emoji Studio: A Project for build-small-hackathon

Jun 13

GigScan - Add gig posters to your diary instantly

Jun 13

Three Worlds, One Engine

Jun 13

Clue Vibes: Taboo, except the tiny model is the one guessing

Jun 13

Pit Wall Chaos: 12 words, real F1 radio, and a tiny LLM judge

Jun 13

Sense Garden: asking a tiny model what a word means right here

Jun 13

Building “1000 Rooms” for the Hugging Face Build Small Hackathon

Jun 13

Aranya: Teaching a Small Model to See Plants and Tell Their Stories

Jun 13

• 1

🕯️ Aether Garden

Jun 13

• 1

Small Talk: An AI-to-AI Podcast Hosted by Robots

Jun 13

• 4

🔥 Roast My Repo

Jun 13

• 1

The Un-Translator: Turning Everyday Inconveniences into Cosmic Tragedies

Jun 13

Field Notes: I Built a Radio That Picks Up Lost Universes

Jun 12

• 3

Agenda Parser: Field Notes

Jun 12

• 1

Podify: A Small, Useful AI Podcast Studio

Jun 12

• 2

Jawbreaker: Private Scam Defense for Someone You Love

Jun 12

• 4

Building ProofKit: fine-tuning a small model without losing the product

Jun 12

CodeFlow: Visualizing Complicated Code

Jun 12

• 2

FrogQuest: I turned my to-do list into an 8-bit RPG where I'm the hero

Jun 12

• 1

Building "Wall Street of AI Agents": How I Crammed a Multi-Agent Financial Simulation into a 1B Parameter Model

Jun 12

• 1

SciVisual-Agent: A Physics and Mathematics Virtual Animation Lab

Jun 12

Field Notes: Building Tutori, a Whiteboard Tutor That Draws While It Talks

Jun 12

• 3

Caro5: Day 5: Generating dataset and first try at ONNX

Jun 12

Growing the Compliment Forest: Small Models, Honest Encouragement, and Five Clearings

Jun 12

Mapping Conflict to Motion: building Dempster's Court

Jun 12

Build Small, Deploy Big Panic: How I Built DOD - Deploy or Draw for the Build Small Hackathon

Jun 12

• 1

Sema: I built a reading companion for my brother

Jun 11

• 2

Caro5: First dataset gen runs ( day 4 ) 🍄

Jun 11

Analog Town: A Shortwave Simulator for Fictional Minds

Jun 11

The Rizz Therapy Show

Jun 11

Thousand Token Wood

Jun 11

Lolaby — AI-powered lullabies

Jun 11

• 10

PawMap: Field Notes

Jun 10

• 4

Caro5: Data Pipeline - Day 3 🍄

Jun 10

• 1

Naija Solar: a solar advisor you can talk to, in your own language

Jun 10

• 4

CraftPilot: Building a Multi-Agent Craft Business Assistant with a Single Small Model

Jun 9

Room Vibe Check: Two Tiny Models Read the Vibe of Your Room

Jun 9

The Mind of Tashi: making a 200M-active model's reasoning the game

Jun 9

🛒 Nutri-Analyser AI for Smarter Grocery Shopping

Jun 9

• 1

The gambit that decayed: when the wood learned to remember

Jun 9

Case Zero

Jun 9

• 3

Field notes from The Kintsugi Garden

Jun 9

• 1

Caro5: Build Small Hackathon: First Days

Jun 9

NeuroBait: I fine-tuned a model to spark dopamine for ADHD brain

Jun 9

• 5

TurboSkillSlug: What If Your Debug Session Grew a Shell?

Jun 9

ClinIQ: Building an On-Device Pharmacist for Small Clinics

Jun 8

The crash that vanished: control and emergence in a five-model economy

Jun 8

Building Pakistan Notice Helper: A Small AI Tool for a Very Local Safety Problem

Jun 8

• 2

Amazing Digital Dentures (a failed project)

Jun 7

• 1

Room360: Video-to-3D Spatial Reconstruction Platform

Jun 7

• 3

Her · हेर — a detective for your Claude Code sessions

Jun 7

• 14

Five labs, five minds: building a multi-model finance drama on small models

Jun 6

• 3

Job Searcher

Jun 6

• 6

Persona Atlas: Mapping How Famous Minds Think

Jun 6

• 3

Thousand Token Wood: shipping a multi-agent economy on a 3B model

Jun 5

• 6

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ProCreations

in build-small-hackathon/tutori about 6 hours ago

This is extremely cool!

#2 opened about 9 hours ago by

Bc-AI

ysharma

updated a Space 17 days ago

Build Small Prize Ledger

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View Build Small Hackathon winners, awards, and prizes

Wayfinder6

in build-small-hackathon/README 21 days ago

Amazed at this hackathon — but also, a thread for indie devs who needed the prize money

🤗👍 2

#7 opened 27 days ago by

Yosun

Quazim0t0

in build-small-hackathon/README 26 days ago

Amazed at this hackathon — but also, a thread for indie devs who needed the prize money

🤗👍 2

#7 opened 27 days ago by

Yosun

Ox1

in build-small-hackathon/wardrobe-us about 1 month ago

Create build.md

#1 opened about 1 month ago by

Ox1

squaredcuber

in build-small-hackathon/chalktalk about 1 month ago

Update live-demo link to current tunnel

#1 opened 2 months ago by

squaredcuber

Alfaxad

in build-small-hackathon/mafia about 1 month ago

Please Unpause the space

#2 opened about 1 month ago by

Alfaxad

ysharma

updated a Space about 2 months ago

README

🏃

ysharma

published a Space about 2 months ago

Build Small Prize Ledger

🍄

View Build Small Hackathon winners, awards, and prizes

blackboxanalytics

in build-small-hackathon/coda about 2 months ago

Results

#1 opened 2 months ago by

blackboxanalytics

georgiisavin

in build-small-hackathon/world-simulator about 2 months ago

unmounted the storage

#3 opened about 2 months ago by

ysharma

Alfaxad

in build-small-hackathon/mafia about 2 months ago

Paused HF Space

#1 opened about 2 months ago by

Alfaxad

akshan-main

in build-small-hackathon/glossolalia about 2 months ago

Generation errors out no matter which settings are selected

#8 opened about 2 months ago by

Kansasfan

ysharma

in build-small-hackathon/world-simulator about 2 months ago

unmounted the storage

#3 opened about 2 months ago by

ysharma

MarianaCodebase

in build-small-hackathon/OpenMythos about 2 months ago

Please unpause

#8 opened about 2 months ago by

Joserhdez

nahuel990

in build-small-hackathon/OpenMythos about 2 months ago

Please unpause

#8 opened about 2 months ago by

Joserhdez

ysharma

in build-small-hackathon/pillpal about 2 months ago

Unmounted the storage

#1 opened about 2 months ago by

ysharma

in build-small-hackathon/mycelium about 2 months ago

Unmounted the storage

#1 opened about 2 months ago by

ysharma

Shinzmann

in build-small-hackathon/naija-solar about 2 months ago

Unmounted the storage

#2 opened about 2 months ago by

ysharma

in build-small-hackathon/naija-solar about 2 months ago

Unmounted the storage

#2 opened about 2 months ago by

ysharma

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Articles

Signal Garden: A Game Engine That Keeps Mutating

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Yui Home Assistant — teaching a 3B model to write Home Assistant automations that actually *work*

My First MO§ES™ SigRank — the diagnostic x-ray of the token economy

Moku: The First Lie in the Canopy

Elder Care Copilot: Bringing Order to the Chaos of Caregiving Paperwork

I built a tool that tells you exactly why you'll be rejected — before you apply

Field Notes: building a shop-floor AI on a small local model

Teaching a 4B Model to Run a City-Wide Scavenger Hunt — Without Naming a Single Street

Building the NPC Generator

🌿 Elysium: Building a Persistent Agentic Civilization on a Bioluminescent Hypergraph

Sozai — Build Memories Together

NIGHTWAVE — a whole all-night radio station run by a one-billion-parameter brain

The Mountain Called Unnecessary

I built a world you can talk into existence

6ixPulse: piloting agentic neighbourhood research, starting with Toronto

Slipstream: a benchmark for mid-flight project forecasting, and a small agent that blends the best methods

GrandVoice: A Multilingual Voice Companion for Grandparents, Kids, and Families

Open to Work: The Musical — distilling a 20B lyricist into a 0.5B model that runs on CPU

Ink-Wash Universe: A Developer’s Chronicle of Building a Local LLM Traditional Liuyao Divination App (FateForge) at a Hackathon

Professor Pip - a tiny teacher who lives in your browser

🧬 Carbon-VEPor: Efficient Variant Effect Prediction with Carbon

DiffSense: A Local-First Pull Request Reviewer Built During Build Small

From "Play My Workout Playlist" to a Real Android Tap Plan

Building an AI Interview Coach for the BuildSmall Hackathon 2026

FitCheck: What AI can your computer actually run?

Wardrobe AI: Shop Your Own Closet with a 4B Model

The Invention of Narrating — building Small Cuts

Building Figment For Build Small: What I Learned About Making Small Models Useful

Small Models, Bounded Jobs: Building Lesson Agent for the Hugging Face Build Small Hackathon

Three Tiny Models, One Bedtime Story

Caro5 Day 6 part 1: Reviewing 🍄

Minecraftify: Turning Real Images into Minecraft Worlds with FLUX.2-Klein

Chhaya: teaching a 4B model to be the eyes, not the doctor

Viva Mais AI: 1B models for one person

Building "YourGymBuddy" – A Race Against Time, Modal Fine-Tuning, and the Power of Local AI

Moku: The Word That Wouldn't Stay Put

Epic Errands

Floodlight Venue Manager Running Notes

🌾 KrishiSathi — From Farmer Problems to AI-Powered Agricultural Intelligence

Quantization is the safety blind spot of local AI — so I built the screen for it

The Office Meets Silicon Valley

Anim Vid AI: Turning Any Concept Into a Manim Animation With Fine-Tuned Small Models

Constellation of Hope - Build Small

Meet Puck

How I Built AI Picture Book

Local Privacy Filtering for Shareable Agent Traces

Interview Coach: Real-Time, Local Interview Assistance Without Taking Over the Answer

Off the Grid, On Schedule

Shamsher: Predicting Football Matches

Typotopia

LocalDuo — Build Small Hackathon Field Notes

GharScan: Teaching a 2B-Parameter Model to Read Indian Walls

500 Million Farmers, One Fragile Phone Line

Building MatchWise🃏: Turning a 1B Model into a Tiny Game Director

Building MiniCPM Financial RAG: Financial Document Intelligence with Small Models

Building Parallel Plate: A Solo Journey into AI-Native Digital Twin Cooking

Building Kids Education AI: Turning Small Models into a Complete Learning Companion for Children

TinyPress, Tokens, and Learning to Say More with Less

Moku: The Forest Had No Dictionary

Tiny Civilization: I Built a Persistent Woodland Newspaper Powered by a 1.5B Model

How I Built AI Puzzle Maker

How I Built Run Reachy Run

I Built Judge-Copilot for Someone I'll Never Meet

Eyas: AI Security Camera Agent

Token bills, kill switches — why I fine-tuned a UX writing model you can own

I Built the Anti-LinkedIn — An AI Platform That Rewards Honesty, Roasts Braggarts, and Turns Your Workplace Chaos Into a Podcast

Ani Kɛse: a small-model care loop for Ghanaian families

Aerosphere: A Three.js Planetary Sandbox

Arcana: Tarot Deck Generator and Reader

Closet Twin: Your AI-Powered Personal Stylist Built for the Build Small Hackathon

Building Mycelium for the Build Small Hackathon

In your own wor(l)ds: the tiny model in your browser is your writing rival!

Vitál: A Wellness OS for People Who Live at Their Laptops

Agentic Humanitarian Data Analyst — a small model that writes the plan before it runs the numbers

whatfirst · small — what to do first, on a 3B model, fully offline

Rune Goblin: An AI Dungeon Crawler Where Your Doodles Become Spells

Yui Home Assistant — teaching a 3B model to write Home Assistant automations that actually work

unplug-tiny: a 22M-parameter prompt-injection firewall that tells you where the attack is

Mumbai Local: when the AI runs the trains, and you are the chaos

The Mind of Tashi: making a 200M-active model's reasoning the game