I met Mrunmayee and Hassan in Pune last week, still in college and both now have code running inside Kestra, an open source orchestration platform used by engineering teams worldwide. What is the roadmap to start in open source? - pick a real repo, pick a small issue, and ship. and that's what Mrunmayee and Hassan did. They joined #KestraHacktober, read the codebase, picked issues, asked questions in the community, took feedback from maintainers and pushed fixes. and their PRs actually got merged. A merged PR in a real open source project says more than 10 certificates ever will. The best thing you can show in interviews. You too can participate in #KestraHacktober till 30th October? But what it is: - a month-long open source contribution drive with Kestra, running through October - winners get Macbook Neo, Ipads, and Amazon Vouchers and every merged PR get merchandise from Kestra. - Students, freshers, working devs. Anyone who wants real open source experience How to participate? - Register at the link below - Pick a good first issue from the Kestra repo. - Raise your PR and work with maintainers to get it merged Register here: https://fandf.co/4iG4qv4 Proud of you Mrunmayee and Hassan 👏 #KestraHacktober Emmanuel Ludovic

1st place at Hack for Humanity: Pune 🏆 Yesterday was my kind of chaos. My teammate Mrunmayee Daware and I walked into a hackathon and walked out with the win. We built a mental health platform prototype in a few hours - journaling, check-ins, the full flow - and pitched it in a room full of people building things to move faster. Funny enough, ours was the one about slowing down. The judging was the best part. Jigar Vyas and Pradyumna Rajaram (Pady) asked the kind of questions that make your idea better in real time, and the suggestions we got are going straight into the build. Big thanks to The AI Collective, Major League Hacking and Gemini for an event that delivered. Winning is nice. Winning with something that could actually help people is nicer. Back to building.

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One room in Pune. A hundred people trying to build agents that can actually own something. That was Monad Blitz Pune V2, theme: the agent economy. Agents that hold resources, prove what they did, transact and coordinate on their own, with Monad underneath as the rail. No blockchain background required to walk in. Mentors on the floor the whole day. Vibe-coding openly encouraged instead of side-eyed. Registration and breakfast at 9, hacking from noon, code freeze at 6, pitches by 6:45, community vote over dinner. A full day compressed into one build. We built MNEME with a problem I keep coming back to: AI agents can execute, but they can't remember. Switch the model, switch the platform, and everything the agent learned is gone — not by accident, by design. MNEME is a sovereign memory vault tied to the agent's own DID instead of a platform account, readable by any MCP-compatible model, with fingerprints anchored on Monad so ownership is provable, not just claimed. Couldn't have shipped it in a day without Mrunmayee Daware and Tanishq Mhetras — the three of us split the build, argued about the architecture, and somehow still made the 6 PM freeze. Thanks to the Monad Foundation and Kartikey Garg for running the whole day end to end — the Monad 101 session, Mon-Skills workshop, starter kits, mentors who actually knew the stack cold. And to everyone else in that room grinding through the same window — the hallway conversations were as good as anything we shipped. Where it landed, if you want to poke around: https://lnkd.in/gD9_jRz5 Still a hackathon build, not a finished product, love any suggestions. But the problem — agents that carry their own memory instead of renting it — is one I'm not done with. #MonadBlitzPune #Monad #AgentEconomy #BuildOnMonad

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i kept running into the same problem. every time i switched models or started a new session, the agent forgot everything. months of context, just gone. so i built mneme. sovereign memory for ai agents. your agent owns its memory, not the platform. switch models, memory follows. every write attested on-chain via monad. gdpr deletion with cryptographic proof. open source. if you have thoughts or want to build on this, the repo is there. github: https://lnkd.in/gJsc5tBp live: https://lnkd.in/gD9_jRz5

A rover roasted a room full of 180 people yesterday. In the best way possible. That was the Claude Community India Meetup at Savitribai Phule Pune University, and it did not go the way I expected. Varun Srinivas 👨💻 brought out an autonomous rover with a camera that looked around the crowd and started commenting on what it saw, live. The room lost it completely. After that, Indranil Chandra broke down agent control loops and hyper-personalization in a way that finally made it click, how you actually build agents that adapt to a person instead of just replying to them. We got into using Claude and crawling way past the surface-level stuff most people stop at, building things that would've felt out of reach a week ago. But if I'm honest, the talks weren't even the best part. It was standing around after, talking to founders, engineers, and students who were all building with the same tool for completely different reasons. None of it happens without Sumeet Doshi, who hosted the whole thing and somehow made a room of 180 strangers feel like a small tight-knit community by the end. Thank you to him, Indranil Chandra, and Varun Srinivas for making this feel this personal instead of just another event. This is exactly why I love being in this space.

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Pune, AI, a mini hackathon, and a restaurant with a crazy theme. Yesterday was a fun mix 😄 Hassan Rehman, Tanishq Mhetras and I joined the Genspark meetup at The Great Indian Mix. The place had its own vibe, and we got to meet people, explore Genspark and build something together. The session covered GenTeam and Super Agent. GenTeam puts people and AI agents in the same workspace, with shared conversations and tasks. Super Agent is built for taking a request through multiple steps, from research to creating something you can use. Then came the mini hackathon: time to stop looking at features and actually try building with them. We made TapChart, a prototype around a familiar annoyance: filling in the same health details at every clinic. It brings allergies, medicines and medical history into one place, with a clinic-sharing flow to explore. It's still a demo with sample data, not a clinical product. But going from an idea to something we could click through made the session a lot more fun. Thanks to Jigar Vyas and Pradyumna Rajaram (Pady), and to Genspark for hosting. More evenings like this, please. Our build: https://lnkd.in/dxaMqmvU