Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

Hi! I made an interactive visualization of your life in weeks. Inspired by Tim Urban's Your Life in Weeks (Wait But Why) and Buster Benson's Life in Weeks.

Hopefully it's a fun thing to do together with family over the holidays.

I wrote about it on my digital garden: https://www.petemillspaugh.com/weeks-of-your-life

Any feedback is welcome. Top on my todo list is improving performance (reduce interaction lag).

Show HN: Weeks of Your Life
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One suggestion.... Make it faster to skip back and set the start date, or allow manual entry. I'm not even that old but it's a lot of months to click backwards on Android.

I think the default was set 04/04/1997 by the creator.

I think it must be using the browser native control? The date picker was surprisingly great on iOS. Color picker, too.

Sometimes I think this concept is depressing because it increases the pressure to "do something" with your life. When you are presented with the finiteness of your life you feel pressure to fill each moment/cell with something "meaningful" or "worthwhile". When someone is enjoying a hobby they will lose track of time yet that hobby may be frivolous in the eyes of someone else. Do they want something like this to track how much time they "wasted"? To me there is this paradox of losing your sense of time with something you are passionate about (building a model, doing some hobby programming) and yet in trying to track it for some purpose of maximal utility will kill the passion.

[Edit] This post on the same page is related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741982