This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass
Demo
🌱 Live Demo: https://vaibhavyadavoefh-pixel.github.io/TOUCH-GRASS/
The prototype is fully browser-based and requires no account or backend.
Code
💻 GitHub Repository: https://github.com/vaibhavyadavoefh-pixel/TOUCH-GRASS
The project is built with simple web technologies so that it remains lightweight, understandable, and easy to modify.
How I Built It
The current prototype is built using:
- HTML
- CSS
- Vanilla JavaScript
- GitHub Pages
The project intentionally avoids unnecessary frameworks and backend services.
The current prototype focuses on the core Touch Grass experience: daily missions, progress tracking, XP, streaks, screen-time logging, and a leaderboard.
The next stage is to integrate a local open-weight AI model so the challenges can become personalized instead of being a fixed list.
For example, a local AI could generate challenges based on:
- Available free time
- Previous completed challenges
- Campus environment
- User preferences
- Difficulty level
- Previous activity
The goal is to eventually run this intelligence locally rather than depending on a closed cloud API.
Why Does Open Innovation Matter?
The idea behind Campus Grass is somewhat ironic: the app should ultimately help you use your screen less.
Using open-source AI makes it possible to move the intelligence closer to the user instead of sending personal activity information to a closed third-party service.
A local/open-weight approach can provide:
- Better privacy for personal activity data
- Offline functionality
- Freedom to change or experiment with models
- No dependency on a single AI provider
- The ability to fine-tune or adapt the system for different campuses
- Lower operating costs for an open-source project
For a project built around getting people away from screens, having an AI system that can eventually run locally is especially interesting.
My Agent Session
Not included in the current submission.
Prize Categories
Not entering any additional partner categories at this time.
The Idea
The goal isn't to use this app more.
The goal is to use it less.
Campus Grass turns real-world activities into small challenges and gives students a reason to step outside, explore their campus, interact with people, and spend intentional time away from their screens.
Built for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge — Touch Grass.
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