TouchGrass AI — Turn Screen Time into Green Time with Smart Outdoor Adventures

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass

TouchGrass AI 🌿 — Turn Screen Time into Green Time with Smart Outdoor Adventures

I built TouchGrass AI 🌿, a web-based outdoor activity planner designed to help people spend less time staring at screens and more time exploring the real world.

Sometimes, we want to go outside but don't know what to do. TouchGrass helps solve that problem by suggesting activities based on your mood, available time, surroundings, and interests.

Users can choose whether they want something relaxing, adventurous, educational, or fitness-focused and get a suggested outdoor plan.

The project is for students, remote workers, and anyone who wants a simple nudge to step away from their devices and reconnect with the world around them.

The main idea is simple: technology should help us experience more of the real world, not keep us trapped in front of a screen.

🌐 Live Website: https://devanshkushwaha2008.github.io/TouchGrassAI/

Try choosing your mood, selecting how much time you have, and generating an outdoor activity plan!

💻 GitHub Repository: https://github.com/DevanshKushwaha2008/TouchGrassAI

Feel free to check out the code, suggest improvements, or contribute new activity ideas.

Although the current implementation does not yet run an open-weight AI model, the project is designed around the idea of using technology to encourage healthier, offline experiences. Integrating an open-weight model for more flexible activity planning is a potential next step.

Open innovation makes it possible for developers to learn from one another, experiment with new ideas, and build tools that others can inspect, modify, and improve.

For a project like TouchGrass, openness matters in several ways:

I believe open-source development is valuable because it lets people build on existing ideas instead of starting from scratch. It also gives beginners like me an opportunity to learn by creating something useful and sharing it with others.

My goal with TouchGrass is to make technology a bridge to the outdoors rather than another reason to stay indoors.

No agent session is linked for this submission.

This is a project submission for the Touch Grass challenge.

The current implementation is a rule-based web application and does not yet include an open-weight AI model or agent framework. I would integrate and document one before claiming eligibility for categories that specifically require open-source AI at the core.

Thanks for checking out TouchGrass AI! 🌿

If you have ideas for new outdoor activities or ways to make the experience better, contributions and feedback are welcome.

Build with technology. Reconnect with nature. Touch grass.