Devlog #3: Mission Accomplished! 🚀 What I Built, What I Gained, and What’s NextHi everyone! Dilesh Zingare here, wrapping up my final devlog for the Hack Club Stardance hackathon! 🌟If you caught my last two updates, you know I set out to build an affordable, hybrid online/offline AI assistant to help students who face high internet costs or limited data plans. Powered by the lightweight gemma3:1b model running right on the user’s local machine, it provides instant support even with zero internet connectivity, while seamlessly pulling live web data whenever a connection is available.I am thrilled to announce that the project is officially built, tested, and submitted to the Stardance Arcade! 🎉What I Gained from This JourneyBuilding this hybrid system wasn’t just about writing code; it was a massive learning experience that helped me grow as an aspiring Developer Advocate:• Edge Computing Skills: Figuring out how to optimize and run a model as compact as gemma3:1b efficiently on everyday consumer hardware.• Smart Routing Logic: Designing a seamless fallback system that instantly switches between local inference and live API scraping depending on the user’s network status.• User-Centric Design: Learning how to build developer tools with empathy, ensuring that students with limited resources aren’t left behind in the AI revolution.• The Hack Club Spirit: Earning awesome arcade tickets while building something that genuinely solves a real-world problem for my peers.What’s Next?Just because the hackathon is ending doesn’t mean the project is! I plan to keep optimizing the local response times and look into adding specialized fine-tuned models for specific student subjects like math and coding.Thank you so much to the Hack Club community for the incredible support, the inspiration, and the motivation to push my boundaries.Come on, ask me anything—online or offline, this AI is ready to help!