Akash Bisht

AB 3, Hackathon app, team of two, 45 stars

Farmix

A voice-first farm assistant in Indian languages: photograph a sick crop, hear the diagnosis, warn farms nearby and find the buyer who pays most after transport.

Observed
Mar to Apr 2026
Role
Most of the app. 47 of its 66 commits.
Made with
  • React Native
  • Gemini API
  • Firebase
  • Text to speech
  • Weather API
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Context

Disease is spotted late, advice rarely comes in the farmer’s own language, and it is hard to tell which buyer actually pays more once transport is counted.

Idea

Assume nobody types. The language picked at login drives both the text and the voice, and every journey can be done by tapping the mic and listening.

Craft

The crop doctor asks Gemini for disease, severity and treatment, and falls back to offline guidance when the quota or the network fails. Alerts spread by severity: 3 km for low, 8 km for moderate, 20 km for high. A lessons feed lets farmers post what they tried and what worked.

Outcome

A working Android app with English and Hindi fully translated, and Kannada, Tamil and Telugu partly covered, plus mandi prices, government schemes and a net earnings calculator.

Farmix welcome screen: “Your Farm, Your Voice.” over a green field, with Get started and language badges
Plate 1Farmix welcome screen: “Your Farm, Your Voice.” over a green field, with Get started and language badges
Farmix login in English: a large microphone button above the phone number field and a language picker
Plate 2Farmix login in English: a large microphone button above the phone number field and a language picker
The same Farmix login screen switched to Hindi
Plate 3The same Farmix login screen switched to Hindi

Selected stars

Real commits from this figure, with their messages as I wrote them. Each opens on GitHub.

  1. d783b6912 Mar 2026Added tts and added firebase
  2. 8a6f8d513 Mar 2026added image scanning
  3. 8f979364 Apr 2026added offlline mode and govt schemes
  4. 48242f64 Apr 2026added voice commands
  5. d6b0fad4 Apr 2026feat: Add Community Lessons feature with lesson posting and helpful marking

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