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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

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

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

7 days until touch grass goes liveeeeee

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

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

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

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

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

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

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It’s been a crazy few days

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Also migrated away from netlify to cloudflare pages for 0 cost! Learning as you go is intense but so rewarding

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

i built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Okay, since posting about touch grass on reddit I've had about 10 people reach out to me, 2 looking for a job, 2 interested in funding and the rest wanting to collab on the Android app... putting yourself out there is so cool #buildinpublic

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 apps.apple.com/us/app/touch...

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Perks of having a fiancée who works in design... #buildinpublic

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I've pledged 50% of the profits from skip purchases in touch grass to rewilding projects across the UK - the user knows this so you're still doing good even if you can't make it outside to touch grass I'll update the page monthly and you can track it here: touchgrass.now/rewilding #buildinpublic

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Absolutely overwhelmed with the response to this - almost 40 people trying out touch grass. It means a lot! #buildinpublic

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

touch grass is ALMOST ready here's a testflight link if you want to try it! testflight.apple.com/join/Fmmt7vcc #buildinpublic

testflight.apple.com

Join the touch grass beta

Available on iOS

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Google renaming the Gulf of Mexico depends on your location

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I really really love seeing the sunset time getting later and later using my smart rules on touchgrass #buildinpublic

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I am seriously addicted to space invader hunting now 👾#game #spaceinvaders #paris #streetart

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I’ve broken touch grass so I literally can’t access instagram until I finish the onboarding #buildinpublic

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Working on the onboarding in touch grass! What do you think #buildingpublic

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Hot take for 2025: QA teams and automated test engineers will be in demand more than ever - this is because the new reliance on LLMs and AI code editors - the number of bugs introduced to software will (and I suspect is already) explode (ing)

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Genuinely makes my day when i get messages like these! #buildinpublic

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Josh @joshnewtonn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

January is such a long month

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

who knew pdfs were so powerful th0mas.nl/downloads/pd...

th0mas.nl

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

What’s the best gig you’ve ever been to? Mine is by far Stromae over 10 years ago now!

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I could cry 😭😭😭😭😭 Apple finally gave me the privilege for touch grass #buildinpublic

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

On the phone with apple support asking about the privileged capability request I put in before Christmas... good experience so far but will keep you updated

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

This job description is laughable...

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Today is the first day I noticed it stay light ever so slightly later and that made the first day back at work better

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Rhys @rhyskentish.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Traveling to a developing country from a developed country and haggling is the biggest ick known to man

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