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GreenQuest AI: Turning Screen Time into Green Time with Open-Source AI | #Hacktoberfest

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built 🌿 GreenQuest AI — Turn Screen Time into Green Time! GreenQuest AI is an AI-powered outdoor adventure app that encourages people to take a break from their screens and reconnect with nature. The idea is simple: instead of using AI to generate more reasons to stay online, what if we used it to…

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This entry is for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1, themed "Touch Grass." GreenQuest AI is an app that utilizes AI to inspire users to spend more time outdoors by generating personalized nature-focused missions. The app aims to help people break their screen time habits and reconnect with the natural world. The AI-powered missions are tailored to the user's chosen activity, time availability, and difficulty level.

Gamification elements such as timers, XP points, levels, streaks, achievement badges, and progress tracking motivate users to engage with the app consistently. The technology behind GreenQuest AI includes HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Transformers.js, the open-weight language model Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct, and ONNX Runtime for browser-based model inference.

The app is designed to be lightweight and accessible, allowing users to generate outdoor missions without needing a separate backend or a paid inference API. The goal is to make touching grass a habit rather than just a meme, promoting real-world activities over screen time.

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