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Excited to share this interactive visualization builder. I have a similar graphic on my personal site that counts down the weeks left in my life, and lots of pe

Excited to share this interactive visualization builder. I have a similar graphic on my personal site that counts down the weeks left in my life, and lots of people found it either interesting or very depressing (mostly depressing) [0]. So I wanted to build a way to let others see their own! Based on the waitbutwhy article with the same title [1], this visualization builder let's you see the life calendar for your own life. It also includes milestones of some successful people, denoting which week in their life they reached a certain achievement. I initially submitted this to HN a few months ago and it got flagged for the title being click-baity, which makes a lot of sense [2]. Though the site itself is the same, I've made the title more accurate and more descriptive and am adding this explanatory comment! Thank you to the HN moderators for giving me insight into why it was flagged the first time. Would love to know if this is still pushing it. Definitely open to any criticism and feedback! [0] https://galeeb.com/ https://galeeb.com/ [1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21227298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21227298

seltzered_ 7y ago
I think another way to design this is less around 'accomplishments', but design it around yourself and the ages of people you care for (relatives, friends, loved ones, etc). Possibly more interesting to work in our age relationship compared to animals (the ones we eat, the ones endangered, etc.)
- shahahmed 7y ago
  Thanks! Yes I agree this is a bit accomplishments oriented. Part of me wanted to make it more gut-wrenching, but I like the idea of relating it to people in your life.
- mncharity 7y ago
  > design it around yourself and the ages of people you care for (relatives, friends, loved ones, etc). A fun exercise is to take ruled paper, number the lines as years, and sketch in your life vertically. Here I was in grade school; this summer I did mumble; etc. People often have a lot of difficulty reconstructing their own lives. Then take someone else's paper(s), and overlap it, aligned by year, or by age. It can result in very interesting conversations.
  - seltzered_ 7y ago
    Ooh, doing the exercise with friends would be interesting.

seltzered_ 7y ago

I think another way to design this is less around 'accomplishments', but design it around yourself and the ages of people you care for (relatives, friends, loved ones, etc). Possibly more interesting to work in our age relationship compared to animals (the ones we eat, the ones endangered, etc.)

shahahmed 7y ago
Thanks! Yes I agree this is a bit accomplishments oriented. Part of me wanted to make it more gut-wrenching, but I like the idea of relating it to people in your life.
mncharity 7y ago
> design it around yourself and the ages of people you care for (relatives, friends, loved ones, etc). A fun exercise is to take ruled paper, number the lines as years, and sketch in your life vertically. Here I was in grade school; this summer I did mumble; etc. People often have a lot of difficulty reconstructing their own lives. Then take someone else's paper(s), and overlap it, aligned by year, or by age. It can result in very interesting conversations.
- seltzered_ 7y ago
  Ooh, doing the exercise with friends would be interesting.