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Rhys

@rhyskentish.bsky.social

πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»πŸ“² Currently building touchgrass (touchgrass.now) an app blocker where you literally have touch grass to unblock them Other builds: - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/beatstride-running-playlists/id6478407630 - https://topblueskyfollowers.com

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

29.06.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

20.03.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

3/x

20.03.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

2/x

20.03.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

1/x

20.03.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

11.03.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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

08.03.2025 10:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

08.03.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

7 days until touch grass goes liveeeeee

07.03.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🫑🫑🫑

07.03.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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i wrote more thoughts about going viral last week open.substack.com/pub/rhyskent...

03.03.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

02.03.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 fiancΓ©e!!!) 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

02.03.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

launch month is here

01.03.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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i made a website that calculates your screentime... in years

28.02.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s been a crazy few days

26.02.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

Learning as you go is intense but so rewarding

26.02.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

26.02.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

25.02.2025 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

shoutout @itseieio.bsky.social πŸ™

24.02.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My app went viral prelaunch wat

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reflecting on today

24.02.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
touch grass

touchgrass.now πŸ™Œ

24.02.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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i built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass

24.02.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

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

24.02.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oops…

24.02.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Thank youuuuu

24.02.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Top of hackernews lets goooooooo

#buildinpublic

24.02.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

24.02.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks man!

24.02.2025 09:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I've given touchgrass.now a facelift! Let me know what you think

#buildinpublic

24.02.2025 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

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