Rhys

This video is for @hankgreen.bsky.social and Hank Green only

i've always loved the tech for good movement and that's why touch grass feels so fulfilling, trying to give people back their time whilst also trying to do some good for the world

#worldrewildingday

i'm from the beautiful north wales (here's one of my photos from back in the day) so i feel very drawn to nature.

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the app launched about a week ago and already people have already bought over £100 worth of skips!

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happy world rewilding day!! 🌱🌎

i've committed 50% of the profits from skip purchases in touch grass (my app that stops you doomscrolling by literally touching grass) to rewilding efforts in the uk.

🧵on why and how much has already been raised

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3 days until touch grass goes live

not gunna lie i am nervous (!) but so so excited.

lots of exciting things have happen this past couple weeks, safe to say nothing short of life changing.

thank you

thanks for the shout out @ering.bsky.social - feel free to DM if you have any questions about it at all

it is and i'm excited for you to try it!

7 days until touch grass goes liveeeeee

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i wrote more thoughts about going viral last week open.substack.com/pub/rhyskent...

touch grass got featured on heart radio (national radio here in the uk) 😭😭

what a year the past year has been.

i released my first solo app, i made an app to propose to my then girlfriend (now fiancée!!!) and now i'm releasing my second app touch grass which is already the most popular app i've worked on

here's to another year building silly apps

launch month is here

i made a website that calculates your screentime... in years

It’s been a crazy few days

Also migrated away from netlify to cloudflare pages for 0 cost!

Learning as you go is intense but so rewarding

I’ve successfully migrated away from Google’s vision API to Apple’s vision framework - this means the labeling will now run on device meaning quicker load times and 0 backend cost for meeeeee

okay mitigated the bandwidth issue somewhat by moving the video to be hosted on bunny.net - I'm going to migrate from netlify to cloudflare pages to be safe though

shoutout @itseieio.bsky.social 🙏

My app went viral prelaunch wat

rhyskentish.substack.com/p/my-app-wen...

reflecting on today

touchgrass.now 🙌

i built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass

I was serving a 12MB vid on every load - i've compressed it to 3MB but still the bandwidth usage is huge!

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Thank youuuuu

Top of hackernews lets goooooooo

#buildinpublic

Thank you!

Thanks man!

I've given touchgrass.now a facelift! Let me know what you think

#buildinpublic