OutsideIRL 🌿 — An Open-Source AI Companion That Gets You Outside
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built 🌿 OutsideIRL — Your world is bigger than your screen. OutsideIRL is an outdoor mission companion designed to help students and people who spend too much time on screens reconnect with the real world. Instead of recommending another app to spend hours in, OutsideIRL helps users discover small,…
OutsideIRL is an open-source AI companion aimed at helping users reconnect with the real world by encouraging outdoor activities. The application generates missions tailored to users' available time, mood, and environment, with clear instructions and benefits of nature included. It features a mission catalog, preference-based selection, mission rendering, and completion tracking, all using HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript.
The project also includes an adapter for Gemma 3 via Ollama, allowing local inference for personalized mission generation without sending user preferences to a third-party AI service. The website is deployed as a static site on Render, but public deployment currently lacks automatic connection to the local Ollama server. Open innovation, exemplified by OutsideIRL, enables experimentation with AI without relying on proprietary APIs, empowering developers to explore local inference, adapt the application architecture, and experiment with different models.
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