TouchGrass: An AI Whose Success Is Measured by How Quickly You Stop Using It 🌱

Description and use

TouchGrass is an AI app that creates personalized outdoor missions, encourages users to step away from screens, and records their experiences.

Problem

Users often spend excessive time on screens, reducing outdoor activity.

Outcome

TouchGrass successfully generates AI‑powered outdoor missions, offers a screen‑free mode, and persists data locally, remaining functional even when the AI provider is down.

Workflow

• Select activity, duration, setting, difficulty
• Enter Go Outside Mode and put phone away
• Return later to record experience
• Submit optional photo and reflection
• Review completed missions in My Submissions

Evidence

TouchGrass is an AI-powered application built for the Hacktoberfest ’26 Week 1 challenge, Touch Grass.

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Users can choose an activity, duration, setting, and difficulty to generate an outdoor mission.

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Go Outside Mode for screen-free time

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Built-in fallback missions when AI inference is unavailable

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Mission records, reflections, and related data are stored in the browser.

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