TrailMate AI: An AI That Wants You to Stop Using It

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

What I Built

🌿 TrailMate AI — Go Outside. AI Will Wait.

TrailMate AI is an outdoor companion designed around one simple idea:

What if an AI product actually wanted you to stop using it?

Most AI applications are designed to keep users on a screen. TrailMate takes the opposite approach.

It gives users simple outdoor missions that encourage them to walk, explore, observe nature, and discover things around them.

For example:

• 🌳 Find two different trees
• 🍃 Find three different leaves
• 🐦 Listen for different outdoor sounds
• 🔎 Find something you've never noticed before
• 🌎 Explore your surroundings for 20 minutes

The app tracks outdoor time, completed missions, discoveries, and generates a Touch Grass Score.

The goal is to make the screen the shortest part of the experience.

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Demo

🌐 Live Website

👉 https://vidish0008-prog.github.io/TrailMate-AI/

The project is deployed using GitHub Pages and can be opened directly in a browser.

🎥 Demo Flow

The current experience works like this:

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Open TrailMate
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Start Adventure
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Receive an outdoor mission
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Go outside
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Start the outdoor timer
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Complete missions
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Record discoveries
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Check your Touch Grass Score
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Put the phone away again 🌿