IRL Quest โ AI That Gives You a Reason to Put Your Phone Down ๐ฟ
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass IRL Quest ๐ฟ AI that gives you a reason to put your phone down. Built for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge โ Week 1: Touch Grass. What I Built Most modern consumer applications are designed to maximize digital engagement: longer sessions, deeper scroll depth, and habitual screen time. Conversationalโฆ
Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1 introduced the "Touch Grass IRL Quest" challenge, aimed at creating AI that encourages real-world engagement over screen time. The solution developed, IRL Quest, inverts the typical AI app flow by prompting users to set their preferences, generate a real-world mission, step away from their phones, and return for reflection.
Users select a category like Nature or Mindfulness, a duration, and a difficulty level. The AI then crafts a local mission using an open-weight language model while safety filters prevent hazardous tasks. Upon completion, users log their sensory observations in a private journal. The application emphasizes local-first design for privacy, offline access, and cost savings.
It runs on Next.js, React, TypeScript, and LM Studio, with safety filtering and an auditory completion signal. The project is open-source, encouraging experimentation and control for independent developers.
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