Deadline Guardian : Built for my All-Nighter friend

Mohammad Masham, a developer at Netaji Subhas University of Technology, built Deadline Guardian, a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) tool that answers exam-prep questions from a student's own slides, notes, and past papers with cited sources such as '[ch4.pptx p.11]'. The project, created for the DEV Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge 'Build for a Friend', runs on a FastAPI/uvicorn server and supports either Google's gemma-2-9b-it API or a local Ollama gemma:2b model, with code available on GitHub and a live demo hosted on Render.

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 📚