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Post by freetonik »

ColeShepherd wrote: post #176
freetonik wrote: post #82

Very cool concept! I wanted to make a similar thing a few years ago, but for a slightly different purpose: force myself to walk more. I built an iOS app called Geostreaks [1] with a simple mechanic: pick an outdoor location (for example, a nearby park) and “check in” there every day. I couldn’t justify the yearly developer fee though, so the app has been removed from the App Store a few years later :( 1. https://appa…

Can you please open-source it?

Sure, why not, here it is: https://github.com/freetonik/geostreaks

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Post by oever »

basisword wrote: post #12

Nice idea. I feel like we don't see as many fun/whimsical apps these days as we did 10-15 years ago.

Here's a whimsical site I made a few years ago. You can look up grasses and other lifeforms and see how they are related.

https://sol.vandenoever.info/?lang=en,nl&uids=119845,135774,...

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Post by chasd00 »

camtarn wrote: post #8

This 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…

pokemon-go got a lot of people outdoors too. I would see kids walking around the neighborhood with their phones out looking for pokemon, it wasn't perfect but at least they were outside getting some air.

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Post by risquer »

aeve890 wrote: post #194
risquer wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Soon...ish Android equivalent is hard but it is in the back of my mind!

Wdym is hard? Hard like is harder to make apps for Android than iOS? Genuinely curious

Yeah you basically need to write your own screen time api for android and use the draw over permission - it's going to be an interesting build for sure!

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Post by silisili »

benfarahmand wrote: post #218

three's 2 feet of snow on the ground. there's no grass. what do i do? can we get an update to touch snow?

Keep a little patch of turf on the table next to your armchair, and you can touch grass without ever even getting up.
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