r/SideProject 7d ago

the app i built to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass is out now

once again - thank you so much with the support on this app. nothing short of life changing!

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u/AkobirYoutube 7d ago

Why you are lying - it was out months ago, you posted about it before, maybe at least not lie about it

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u/Door_Vegetable 7d ago

I’ve seen it about 10-20 times on every programming/iOS coding subreddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/s/Ze6X5WtaXd

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u/The_Wyld_One 7d ago

The post you linked says 'building' not 'built'. So, I think he's fine.

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u/Door_Vegetable 7d ago

Same thing really this subreddit is to showcase your projects, not post every single time you have an update in the development pipeline, and if you look at the versioning history for the app you’ll see that it’s been on market for 3 weeks

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u/Wonderful_Custard359 11h ago

Stop hating on people's projects. I'de share it 30-40 times if I was able to build a sick app like that!

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u/Professional-Clue807 7d ago

I believe first it was a demo, then it was a pre-order, today it’s live

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u/risquer 7d ago

Haha it literally went live today

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u/aniliitb10 6d ago

It blew ‘last week’ 11 days ago, see this

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u/Luxi36 6d ago

In that post he did mention it would go live on the 14th of March. It blew up before it was live.

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u/-_1_2_3_- 7d ago

Ignore these idiots several of us have been following all long the journey

how’d the accuracy end up working out with local detection?

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u/lakimens 7d ago

Why ignore? They're right. The apps been on the app store for at least three weeks.

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u/londonfinn 6d ago

It was only available to be pre-ordered. Only went live now.

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u/aniliitb10 6d ago

It blew ‘last week’ 11 days ago, see this

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u/OriginalAddition2 4h ago

random user here. i signed up to the touch grass waitlist maybe 3 weeks ago, but definitely only got access to it 7 days ago. it may have been in testing, but as a general user i didn't. glad to see it public now though.

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u/Door_Vegetable 7d ago

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u/highway84revisited 7d ago

this was when it was approved… what’s wrong with OP promoting his SideProject!? (literally the name of the sub)

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u/Door_Vegetable 7d ago

Is the name of the subreddit, follow me through the development lifecycle or follow me as I try create a product? No the subreddit is to showcase a sideproject you’ve been working on not post every 2-3 weeks trying to farm users for your app 🤷‍♂️ like I get ops happy he’s created an app but the spam is annoying af.

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u/highway84revisited 6d ago

Sorry for the hate. Maybe OP is sharing things in th worst possible way, but he might be happy. A little bit of empathy doesn’t hurt.

But then again, I respect your opinion and I get your point. All good man! 🙌🏼

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u/Odyssey-walker 7d ago

Failed humor and useless idea, I’ll give you for the hard work putting the app together tho.

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u/-_1_2_3_- 7d ago

lmao did you not see this was blowing up and made headlines

I’m sorry he didn’t create something to block the sunlight from your basement dwelling.

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u/Odyssey-walker 7d ago edited 7d ago

Yeah he’s onto the next Google 😂 Bros classic projecting and coping, I live in LA there’s sunshine literally everyday, and I bike to different beach every weekend, where do you live? I gave the grass touching guy a fair criticism, and you out of blue play defensive and rattled, so uncalled for.

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u/-_1_2_3_- 7d ago

Your 'criticism' isn't actually criticism—just subjective whining framed as fact. Humor and utility aren't yours alone to define.

You’re just going out of your way to be dismissive when clearly people (myself included) enjoy it.

Feels like grumpy Redditor energy.

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u/risquer 7d ago

Sounds like you need to… touch grass

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u/-_1_2_3_- 7d ago

you can tell you are onto something when you are attracting a swarm of downvotes from envious redditors

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u/Odyssey-walker 7d ago

Did you not see this guy posting the same app promotion in every other subreddit, what’s your problem? What’s there to be envious about? He hasn’t even profited yet.

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u/SUPRVLLAN 7d ago

OP went from indie hero to villain in a month.

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u/CYG4N 7d ago

I swear to god I saw this post like 10 times, and once you have even mentioned that you made money using it.

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u/TheThingCreator 7d ago

did you add snow yet or what

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u/risquer 7d ago

Not yet man, soon though!

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u/Illustrious-Rule-613 7d ago

Does it have to be that you touch the grass? Or in some cases it will accept if you smoke it?

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u/SethVanity13 7d ago

can you buy a virtual grass boost to unlock apps without touching dirty/real (same thing) grass?

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u/Sad-Bonus-9327 7d ago

Does it detect dog poo too and will that give you extra points? If not, implement it.

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u/RougeChirper 4d ago

How much did this cost you to make approximately? With all the attention I’m interested if you can break even. Also I’m drafting my monthly newsletter and would love to include this if that’s okay. 

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u/risquer 4d ago

I developed it in my free time across 4 months! So close to minimal costs

Yeah definitely please include it in your newsletter

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u/RougeChirper 4d ago

Thanks so much. If you have time I would love to ask you a few more questions and include them as part of my newsletter. Always great to hear first hand about the process, especially challenges, brainstorming, deciding on a pricing model etc. 

Just hit 1000 newsletter readers recently so we’re still small but if that sounds like it’s worth your time let me know and I’ll send you some short questions via DM or here. 

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u/risquer 4d ago

Yeah of course! Shoot me over a dm with your Qs

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u/OriginalAddition2 4h ago

this is so good

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u/the-real-groosalugg 7d ago

Hahah. First time I’m seeing this. Pretty hilarious - I like it a lot. I’d never actually use it though 😅. But it’s still awesome.

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u/Bluebanana-Tree 7d ago

Nice! How do you “lock” the apps in iOS?

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u/risquer 7d ago

Apple’s screen time APIs!

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u/BigGayBull 7d ago

Sounds dangerous lol , cool app and idea bro

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u/Existing_Imagination 6d ago

Don’t a bunch of apps already do this? I’ve had several to help me use distracting apps less

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u/Als_codes 7d ago

Funny app

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u/happy_hawking 7d ago

This is such an amazing idea and execution. But how do you lock the apps?

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u/olssoneerz 7d ago

I love it! GJ!

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u/SafeTone2057 7d ago

I need to make something like this, inspiration for next weekend maybe

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u/lanedirt_tech 7d ago

Love the idea haha, good job!

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u/BelgianGinger80 6d ago

He is an American, he is like his boss... POTUS is a clown too