TouchGrass AI — I Built an AI Whose Only Goal Is to Get You Away From the Computer
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built TouchGrass AI is an open-source AI experiment designed to solve an unusual problem: getting people to stop using AI and go outside. You tell it three things — how much time you have, your energy level, and what you're into. Gemma generates a personalized outdoor mission and sends you out the door.…
TouchGrass AI is an open-source AI experiment that aims to encourage people to disconnect from their screens and enjoy the outdoors. Developed for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge, this project generates personalized outdoor missions based on your available time, energy level, and interests.
To use TouchGrass AI, you provide three key inputs: how much time you have, your energy level (low, medium, or high), and your interests (nature, fitness, explore, photo, or surprise). The AI, Gemma, then creates a unique mission tailored to your preferences, complete with a catchy title, a one-sentence scene-setting description, and three specific tasks. The app features a simple, distraction-free interface with just four screens: preferences, mission, go outside, and reflection.
The technology behind TouchGrass AI includes a React + Vite frontend, a FastAPI backend with a single POST endpoint for generating missions, and the Gemma open-weight AI model hosted on Google AI Studio. The AI prompt is crucial to the project, guiding the model to return a JSON object with the mission details in a specific format. This streamlined approach minimizes screen time, making it an ideal solution for those who spend excessive hours glued to their devices.
Written by urgent.news from Dev.to's reporting — not their text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
