# I Built a Local AI Pet That Yells at You to Go Outside — No Cloud, No API Keys

Hacktoberfest Week 1 • Touch Grass Challenge

This weekend I submitted Miso — a memory-efficient desktop companion that runs a real open-weight LLM locally and literally tells you to touch grass when your focus timer hits zero.

🤖 Built with open-source AI at its core.

No cloud. Locally optimized. Memory efficient. Secure.

Miso is a cute, interactive desktop pet that sits in the corner of your screen. It works with you, not against you. The pet tracks how long you have been focused, and when your timer runs out, it gets angry (in a cute way) and literally tells you to go outside and touch grass using an open-weight language model running entirely on your laptop.

This is a Progressive Desktop Widget — fully offline, open-source, local-only, and designed specifically for low-end hardware (i7-6600U / 8GB RAM). Zero cloud APIs. Zero subscriptions. Zero data leaving your computer.

This project was built specifically for people with older, lower-spec hardware (like an i7-6600U with 8GB RAM). Rather than relying on expensive cloud APIs or…