# Deadline Guardian : Built for my All-Nighter friend

> Source: <https://dev.to/masham_/deadline-guardian-built-for-my-all-nighter-friend-3cha>
> Published: 2026-10-05 07:33:53+00:00

Every semester, my college friend and I face the exact same chaos before our exams: piles of slides and notes, scanned PDFs, previous-year papers, syllabi, and only a few hours left.

When you're pulling a deadline all-nighter, reading through hundreds of slides line-by-line is impossible. Asking a standard LLM often leads to generic fluff or hallucinated answers with zero references.

That's why I built **Deadline Guardian**, a RAG-based project for the **DEV Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge — "Build for a Friend"!**

**We can all work together on this project to improve this small Deadline Guardian for all of us!**

`[ch4.pptx p.11]`.
**GitHub Repository:**

[https://github.com/Masham-0/deadline-guardian](https://github.com/Masham-0/deadline-guardian)

**Live Demo:**

[https://deadline-guardian-3195.onrender.com/](https://deadline-guardian-3195.onrender.com/)

```
git clone https://github.com/Masham-0/deadline-guardian.git
cd deadline-guardian
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

Create a `.env` file:

```
LLM_BASE_URL=https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai/
LLM_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
LLM_MODEL=gemma-2-9b-it
```

For the Google API setup:

```
uvicorn main:app --reload --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000
```

For a local Ollama setup:

```
ollama pull gemma:2b
```

Then start the server with:

```
LLM_BASE_URL=http://localhost:11434/v1 \
LLM_API_KEY=ollama \
LLM_MODEL=gemma:2b \
uvicorn main:app --reload
```

**Developer:** Mohammad Masham

**Email:** [mohd.masham@gmail.com](mailto:mohd.masham@gmail.com)

**Institution:** Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT)

**Hackathon:** DEV Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge 2026 — Build for a Friend

If you find **Deadline Guardian** helpful for your exam prep, feel free to drop a ⭐ on the GitHub repository!

Happy studying! 📚