This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Slow and Steady .

What I built

If you develop with Flutter, you may know the frustration of spending half an hour debugging an error, fixing it, and then meeting the same problem again a few months later.

Maybe it is a use_build_context_synchronously warning, a LateInitializationError , or a RenderFlex overflow. The routine can feel familiar: copy the stack trace, search for an explanation, share a code snippet with an AI assistant, sort through suggestions, and work out the fix again.

I built StackSoothe , a local-first debugging assistant for Flutter and Dart developers. It uses a local open-weight model to diagnose an error the first time.…