OutsideIRL 🌿 — An Open-Source AI Companion That Gets You Outside

Description and use

OutsideIRL is an open‑source web app that generates short outdoor missions tailored to a user’s time, mood, and environment, with optional local Gemma 3 inference via Ollama.

Problem

Students and people who spend too much time on screens need a way to discover quick, achievable outdoor activities that fit their time, mood, and environment.

Outcome

The app provides quick, mood‑based outdoor missions, tracks completion, and stores progress locally, reducing screen time.

Workflow

• Open the web app
• Select available time, mood, and environment preferences
• Generate a mission
• Follow the mission instructions
• Mark mission as completed

Evidence

OutsideIRL is an outdoor mission companion designed to help students and people who spend too much time on screens reconnect with the real world.

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It helps users discover small, achievable outdoor activities based on their available time, mood, and environment.

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The application includes a mission catalog, preference-based selection, mission rendering, completion tracking, and browser local storage.

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I also designed an adapter for Gemma 3 through Ollama so the mission generator can use an open-weight model running locally.

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The public Render website does not automatically connect to my computer's local Ollama server. Visitors use the curated fallback missions unless a separate remote inference service is configured.

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