🌱 TouchGrass-AI: Your Local AI Guide to Get Outside

Description and use

TouchGrass‑AI is a local-first AI app that creates personalized outdoor activity plans without sending data to the cloud, enhancing privacy and enabling users to quickly go outside.

Problem

Users want to spend less time on screens and more time outside but lack personalized outdoor activity plans that respect location, time, fitness, preferences, and constraints.

Outcome

The application runs entirely locally, generating personalized outdoor activity plans without sending personal data to the cloud, thereby enhancing privacy and enabling a local-first experience.

Workflow

• Enter location
• Choose outdoor activity
• Set available time
• Set fitness level
• Add preferences
• Submit form
• FastAPI constructs prompt
• Ollama runs gemma4:e2b
• Model returns structured JSON
• FastAPI validates and returns plan
• User reads plan and goes outside

Evidence

TouchGrass-AI is a local-first AI outdoor activity guide designed to help people spend less time on their screens and more time outside.

Source

The application runs locally at: http://127.0.0.1:8000

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The model runs through: http://localhost:11434

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The model is instructed to return structured JSON containing the activity, plan, preparation checklist, safety information, and the final "Touch Grass Challenge".

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