Echoes Offline: a private browser tool that turns family memories into printable remembrance cards

Echoes Offline is a small, Día de los Muertos–inspired companion that lets people write a memory of a loved one and receive a printable remembrance card with a short ritual prompt. The project was built for a Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge and is designed to keep personal stories off servers, with no accounts, application database, or paid API. It runs an open-weight DistilBERT sentiment model directly in the visitor's browser via Transformers.js, which is downloaded once and cached locally. The model only detects a broad emotional tone to select a ritual prompt, while the user's own words remain the core of the card. If the model fails to load, the app still generates the card in a no-AI fallback mode.