We are happy to announce the result of the fifth edition of FOSS Hack, which was conducted in a hybrid mode this year from 22nd to 23rd February 2025.
This was our fifth anniversary of FOSSHack and the largest FOSSHack yet. We saw 5000+ participants, 2500+ teams and ~800 Projects ( Which is twice the number of projects created in FOSSHack 2024)
The hackathon took place at 10 local editions in cities all over India, and virtually.
The Jury has evaluated all the submitted projects and selected some based on various factors, including technical complexity, completeness, product thinking, utility and viability. Out of 795 submitted projects, of them are featured here.
Prices
Scribly by Team XLR8 - ₹50,000
The Ultimate YouTube Notes & Annotation Browser Extension Scribly is a powerful browser extension that allows users to take timestamped notes, draw, highlight, add shapes, and capture screenshots directly on YouTube videos. Organize and manage all your annotations in a centralized dashboard for easy access.
Jury Notes
A tool which is Functional and Use-full. The Extension is available on add-on store, demo is nice, and app works well. Code seems to also be fine, with decent set of features like drawing on the video to store the images.
Tesseract 3D by Team The Boys - ₹50,000
Tesseract3D is a web-based 3D design tool that lets developers and designers create, animate, and export interactive 3D scenes as React components.
Jury Notes
While a lot of heavy lifting is done by the react-three-fiber library, this is a nice project, giving the users the ability to export components is helpful, the UI is also good and the commits show that all team members contributed well.
goboscript by Team aspizu - ₹50,000
goboscript is a text-based programming language that compiles to Scratch, allowing you to write Scratch projects in text and export them as .sb3 files. It offers advanced features like macros, local variables for procedures, and optimizations, making it easy to integrate with external tools, version control, and refactoring workflows.
Jury Notes
The Project has a great demo with a well-written README, actively being developed, and receiving regular commits during the hackathon and even after. The project also showcases innovative ideas, making it a pretty cool project to work on.
Serenade by Team Project Amadeus - ₹25,000
A lightweight, open-source music player built with Electron and React, featuring local playback, music organization and downloading capabilities as well as audio visualization features.
Jury Notes
The project is useful and not too complicated. The demo and readme are good, but there isn’t much originality or imagination. Boilerplate UI/UX and UI is complete in the sense that it is useable. The progress done in timeline appears to be acceptable. However, it’s still inside the ballpark.
t-rex by Team sudoers - ₹25,000
TReX is a Text User Interface (TUI) tool for writing, visualizing, and testing Regular Expressions (RegEx). This terminal-based application uses a keyboard-driven interface to allow users to create and evaluate RegEx patterns efficiently.
Jury Notes
Good communication, and the user interface is pleasant, easy to use, helpful and useful tool, however there maybe other projects that are comparable to it.
Frappe UI React by Team Timeless - ₹15,000
frappe-ui-react is a comprehensive React & React Native component library that implements Frappe’s Espresso UI design system.
Jury Notes
It’s functional and well made. Sits in the sweet spot filling the gap between react and frappe.
STACKD by Team Return 1 - ₹15,000
STACKD is a scaffolding tool that helps developers instantly set up a full-stack application with customizable configurations.
Jury Notes
Its functional and useful. Currently it has very little usefulness and can be expanded later on.
Devb.io by Team Lamsta - ₹10,000
DevB.io seamlessly transforms your GitHub footprint into a living, breathing portfolio. Powered by AI, it tells your developer story while you focus on what matters most: writing great code. No more portfolio maintenance headaches, just pure coding brilliance on display.
Jury Notes
Great communication, innovation/creativity wise so so, and its complete with a deployed version, i was able to generate profile pages as well. Code seems also okay. UI UX is good.
TiffinBox by Team Lemonade - ₹10,000
TiffinBox is a user friendly platform designed to simplify the management of Distrobox containers, similar to Docker desktop. It streamlines the process of creating and managing Distrobox containers, eliminating the need to memorize CLI commands for common tasks.
Jury Notes
The demo was good. The concept is also sufficiently complicated and pleasant. UI is decent, and it appears to provide the fundamental tools needed to administer distrobox. The project is thorough, useful, and easy to use.
SMASH by Team ByteQuesters - ₹5,000
SMASH(SVG Motion and Animation Studio Hub) is a web-based SVG animation editor designed to help users create, customize, and export animations effortlessly—without any coding or advanced design skills.
Jury Notes
The jury commends the participants for taking the effort to build this.
mARK.it by Team DaDevs - ₹5,000
Mark.it is a hybrid bookmark management system that helps users capture, organize, and synchronize bookmarks from various platforms into a single, centralized interface, ensuring that users never lose track of important links.
Jury Notes
Readme and Demo are nice. Not that innovative, completeness wise okay since main features are there. kinda basic as of now, has potential and can grow.
Special Mentions
Sound Sketch by Team SANS
Even if this Project is simple, the jury commends the participants for creativity and project seems novel.
generator.js by Team MalluCoders
The jury commends the participants for taking the effort to build this.
Partner Projects
Evaluations for partner project contributions are still going on. Feedback from the maintainers and jury will soon be shared on this thread. (@Suslime )
Closing Notes
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the volunteers, mentors, speakers, venue partners, local host organizers, industry partners, community partners, jury members and project partners who have been a part of FOSS Hack 2025. Without your help and support this event wouldn’t have been possible.
We thank you for your contribution to making FOSS Hack a success. Your dedication and enthusiasm towards the cause are commendable and we are grateful for your commitment.
FOSS Hack 2025 was an exciting event with many new ideas being implemented that has enabled us to take one step closer towards achieving our mission of creating a free and open-source culture in India. We look forward to continuing this journey with all of you as we get ready for the next edition of the IndiaFOSS conference happening later this year at Bengaluru!
Jury Panel
Special thanks to the jury panel - Jahnvi Patil, Rohan Verma, Hemanth Mangla, Hussain Nagaria
P.S - The remaining prize pool will be moved to our Project Grants program. If you’re working on something cool and open, reach out to us at grants@fossunited.org. If you’re a FOSSHack participant that continues working on their project even after the hackathon (and plan to do it for longer) we’d love to talk to you!
To process the prize money for your team, we need the following information of each team member:
- A copy of your PAN card along with the PAN number.
- Bank account details.
- Your current residential address.
- The prize distribution details among the team members (this must be collectively decided by your team)
Please send the details to fosshack@fossunited.org. Kindly ensure that all team members are copied to the email.
Additionally, please be informed that as per Section 194B of the Income Tax Act, a 30% Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) will apply if any individual receives an amount exceeding ₹10,000.
