CanopyRoute Pune — Offline Open-Source AI Trail Audio Runner
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built Most modern outdoor and trail running apps create a paradoxical problem: they encourage us to get out into nature, but keep our eyes glued to bright phone screens checking turn-by-turn prompts, hear
Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Submission 🌿
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass
Most modern outdoor and trail running apps create a paradoxical problem: they encourage us to get out into nature, but keep our eyes glued to bright phone screens checking turn-by-turn prompts, heart rate charts, and elevation contours.
I built CanopyRoute Pune to turn this dynamic on its head: make the screen the shortest part of the run, put your phone in your pocket, and run by sound.
Designed specifically for the tekdis (hills), banyan groves, and mountain crests of Pune, Maharashtra, CanopyRoute is an offline-first scenic trail route planner and auditory hill running companion powered by local open-weight AI.
(Tip: Open the live link on mobile or desktop, describe a trail in plain English, click "Pocket Run Mode", and listen to the procedural nature soundscape and live landmark voice cues!)
Built for Hacktoberfest 2026 Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 1 ("Touch Grass") Theme: Build something with open-source AI at its core that gets people off the screen and into the world. Live Site: https://abh19avm.github.io/Touch-Grass-hacktober-week1-/ Repository: https://github.com/Abh19avM/Touch-Grass-hacktober-week1-
CanopyRoute Pune is an offline-first scenic trail route planner and auditory hill running companion powered by local open-weight AI ( @huggingface/transformers ), built specifically for the tekdis, banyan groves, and mountain crests of Pune, Maharashtra.
Modern fitness and mapping apps keep runners glued to glowing screens, constantly staring at digital turn-by-turn prompts, elevation contours, and pace alerts. CanopyRoute is built with the opposite philosophy: make the screen the shortest part of the experience, put the phone in your pocket, and run by sound.