Love it!
How does it handle -20ºC in snow-covered Northern Canada? :-) Can I touch fake indoor grass?
Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass
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#212Is Hacker News the new Product Hunt?
Hacker News was Product Hunt before Product Hunt was born.
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whimsical doesn’t make money and we are a society of sellouts.
But when we had fart app everyone said civilization was coming to an end
I don't think that reaction was to the existence of them - merely the fact people were parting with money for them to the extent that developers were making significant money (short-term anyway). "Drinking" a pint, or blowing out the flame on a "lighter" were both quite cool moments for people when smartphones first arrived.
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#214This is a hilarious concept and would probably genuinely help. Nicely done! I used to have a similar issue with hiding inside all the time (during Covid times, of course) and to motivate myself to go outside, I started an Instagram of tiny little plants growing in cracks in the pavement. I tried to add a new tiny plant every day or two, which meant that I had to wander further and further afield to find a suitable sp…
I really love that, would you mind sharing the insta?
They responded on another post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160338): it's https://www.instagram.com/ct_thelittlethings .
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#215This is a hilarious concept and would probably genuinely help. Nicely done! I used to have a similar issue with hiding inside all the time (during Covid times, of course) and to motivate myself to go outside, I started an Instagram of tiny little plants growing in cracks in the pavement. I tried to add a new tiny plant every day or two, which meant that I had to wander further and further afield to find a suitable sp…
I wonder how many of us picked up this habit from COVID? It definitely got me to appreciate my local flora way better, and the fact that I get weird looks for bending down to take pictures of tiny little insect and plant life is, well, let me be honest, I kind of enjoy being the neighborhood eccentric.
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#216What happens if it’s the middle of winter and the grass is completely covered with snow?
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#217How is it that an app can block access to other apps?
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#218three's 2 feet of snow on the ground. there's no grass. what do i do? can we get an update to touch snow?
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#219How is it that an app can block access to other apps?
It uses an API that lets developers customize the "shield" screen that is shown by Screen Time https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ManagedSettingsUI/...
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#220No thanks my closest grass is covered in dog pee!