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I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass

Productivity — A habit-breaking application that requires users to physically touch grass before accessing thei…
Productivity
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
5
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 18 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
18 probes · May 23, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 18 probesavg response 1001 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
touchgrass.now
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 5 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Agadir Travel Guidetraveltag-overlap100%0.00.0■ inactive
Instagram Likes on iOSproductivitysimilar100%2.0-8.0■ inactive
Laundry Lensproductivitysimilar100%40.00.0● live
Barcodesproductivitysimilar83%8.0-24.8— unverified
Keeplyproductivitysimilar83%8.00.0— unverified
Grasppai-toolstag-overlap83%40.00.0● live
Grand Map of Londonproductivitysimilar83%40.00.0● live
VisualRulerproductivitysimilar83%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 14:59Z200touchgrass.nowcloudflare468alive
2026-08-18 12:41Z200touchgrass.nowcloudflare1898alive
2026-08-10 00:52Z200touchgrass.nowcloudflare840alive
2026-08-08 05:28Z200touchgrass.nowcloudflare1074alive
2026-08-03 15:21Z200touchgrass.nowcloudflare1386alive
2026-07-30 17:04Z200touchgrass.nowcloudflare742alive
2026-07-18 15:01Z200touchgrass.nowcloudflare2394alive
2026-07-15 09:35Z200touchgrass.nowcloudflare179alive
2026-07-09 10:31Z200touchgrass.nowcloudflare514alive
2026-07-04 03:43Z200touchgrass.nowcloudflare2358alive
2026-06-21 19:26Z200touchgrass.nowcloudflare644alive
2026-06-21 19:26Z200touchgrass.nowcloudflare556alive
2026-06-20 11:16Z200touchgrass.nowcloudflare726alive
2026-06-19 08:47Z200touchgrass.nowcloudflare235alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/hn-43158660-i-built-an-app-to-stop-me-doomscrolling-by-touching-grass · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.