Anand Chowdhary

FOSS Overflow is a program by OpenLake and GDSC IIT Bhilai that helps students to get started with the world of open source by helping them build real world open sourced projects under guidance of awesome mentors. Later this month, I will present a talk on how to get started with open source contributions and my journey building Upptime.

Although I was not a speaker at GitHub Universe this year, I helped YC-funded startups by inviting them to the GitHub for Startups event and sharing discounted Universe tickets to the community. I also offered fundraising and technology advice to startups from other GitHub Stars during the event and participated in workshops.

This aims to be the world's most comprehensive email deliverability checklist. (It's a work in progress!) If you're sending outbound emails, you should follow this checklist to ensure that your emails are delivered to the inbox and not marked as spam. This checklist is based on the experience of sending tons of of outbound emails, and it's open source to make sure we have the most recent and relevant information. Contributions are welcome!

As part of my ongoing effort to make my life open source, I created the repository AnandChowdhary/health to expose my health metrics. It tracks stats such as my weight, age, height, BMI, bone %, fat %, muscle %, and water %, and creates graphs using GitHub Actions. This will make me accountable to get in better shape. You can use GitHub Next's Flat Data project to view and graph the CSV data.

I've been making a list of books I'm reading, powered by my open source project Bookshelf Action. This list also includes books I want to read in the future and exposes an API for my personal website. I use GitHub issues to filter by rating and the Google Books API for cover and book details. This repository is updated every time I start or finish a new book, and is part of my ongoing effort to make my life open source.

Get any question answered. A knowledge search engine powered by Google Search and GPT-4, similar to Bing Chat or You. It's an open source project I made as a proof of concept for "the next generate of search engines" and uses the Google Search API to find webpages, scrapes them, summarizes the webpage using GPT 3.5 turbo, and answers questions using the summary and GPT-4. For example, you can ask questions like "Does Twitter hire remote workers?" and it will show you its step-by-step thinking and answer the question.

As part of my ongoing effort to make my life open source, my repository AnandChowdhary/themes tracks my yearly theme on GitHub and exposes an API. I use Yearly Themes from The Theme System as an alternate to New Year's Resolutions. My yearly theme dictates my quarterly OKRs and helps me make decisions. [New Year's] Resolutions are specific goals, e.g., "I will lose X kg by Y date" or "I will go to the gym X times every week", which makes them very easy to fail. Themes, on the other hand, evolve to what you make of them. The idea is simple -- an overarching theme acts as a North Star and guides you in making microdecisions. Your theme might be "Year of Health", but what that meant to you when you started the year might be very different from where you end up, but that's the point -- themes are malleable. You might have started deadlifting, changed to core exercises, or switched to watching your diet -- the theme remains the same, health. Whether you're on major crossroads (e.g., "should I focus on mental health and quit my job?") or whether you're making a tiny decisions (e.g., "should I order take out or cook something?"), your theme pushes you in one or the other direction.

Twitter bot which tweets news in haikus using GPT-3. Proof of concept built in a few hours!