HustleMate AI: Open-Source Toolkit for Freelancers and Side Hustlers

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A developer has built HustleMate AI, an open-source web toolkit aimed at freelancers, content creators, and small business owners. The dashboard bundles an AI content writer, a product listing generator, a pricing calculator based on costs, platform fees, and target margins, and a client proposal generator. The AI features connect to a locally run open-weight model through Ollama, with qwen2.5:3b as the default, so users need not rely on a paid cloud API. The project was submitted to the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge and is built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The developer says the aim is to reduce repetitive business tasks and make AI tools more accessible to beginners.

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