Saumya Verma
Building Modern Websites, Custom Web Apps & Smart Solutions
FreelancePilot — AI Copilot for Freelance Opportunities
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I built OpenSource Buddy, a developer-focused tool that helps users quickly understand GitHub and open-source projects without having to manually dig through every file.
In this demo, I show how OpenSource Buddy analyzes a repository and turns complex project information into a clearer, more accessible overview. The goal is to make exploring unfamiliar open-source projects faster and easier, especially for developers who want to understand a project before contributing.
I created this walkthrough to demonstrate one part of my workflow: using a real project and explaining how the tool works through a concise screen-recorded demo with voice narration.
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The Impossible Prediction 🌌
For the Flora Museum Challenge, I reimagined the Met Museum’s Automaton Clock in the Form of Urania, Muse of Astronomy by Paullus Schiller (ca. 1620–30) as the center of a fictional scientific mystery.
The story begins in a 17th-century workshop, where Schiller is building Urania, a mechanical representation of the heavens. Once completed, the automaton comes alive: its gears turn, the celestial sphere rotates, and Urania moves as she tracks the heavens.
But something unexpected happens. One of the gears begins moving differently from the others. Schiller initially believes it is simply a mechanical flaw, but the unusual movement continues with strange precision.
The story then jumps forward 400 years. Modern researchers rediscover Urania and analyze the mysterious gear using contemporary astronomical data. What first appears to be an error turns out to correspond to a precise location in the night sky — something that could not have been known in Schiller’s time.
The researchers are left with an impossible question: How could a 17th-century machine contain an astronomical prediction about something discovered centuries later?
Using Flora, I developed this idea into a five-part visual narrative — The Creation, The Awakening, The Anomaly, 400 Years Later, and The Revelation — and turned it into a short cinematic demo.
The project explores how a real historical object can inspire an entirely new fictional world while preserving the character, craftsmanship, and astronomical identity of the original artifact.
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✦ 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗱𝗱𝘆 — 𝗔𝗜-𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗱𝗱𝘆 helps developers discover meaningful GitHub issues that match their skills and turn them into clear, actionable contribution plans.
✦ 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀
→ 🔍 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 — Find beginner-friendly and relevant GitHub issues.
→ 🎯 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗶𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 — Match issues with your existing technical skills.
→ 🧠 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘆 — Turn lengthy GitHub discussions into useful, concise insights.
→ 📊 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 — Evaluate difficulty, scope, activity, and maintainer responsiveness.
→ 🚀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻 — Get step-by-step guidance from repository setup to implementation and review.
→ 📌 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘂𝗲 — Keep promising issues organized and ready to work on.
✦ 𝗚𝗼𝗮𝗹
Make open-source contribution less intimidating by transforming “𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲” into a clear path toward a first pull request.
𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻, 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, with a strong focus on usability, visual hierarchy, and engaging interactions.
🔗 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁: https://aurora-loom-works.lovable.app/
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