WhereYouAre.World began with a personal question: how much of ordinary life do we take for granted because we rarely see the wider context? Four simple inputs become a set of quiet, sometimes surprising comparisons.
The Problem
Perspective is easy to talk about and hard to feel. Most tools exploring global inequality either lecture, rank people, or overwhelm them with data. I wanted to make something gentler: specific, personal, and never judgmental.
What I Built
A single-page Astro app that asks about age, country, wellbeing, and income, then places those answers alongside global and local context drawn from World Bank data and the World Happiness Report.
A sharing feature lets someone send a personalised invitation—with names and a note—to a person they care about. The recipient completes their own version of the experience.
The hardest part was not the data, but the tone. Every line had to offer perspective without turning comparison into judgment.
Built With AI, Honestly
AI did much of the heavy lifting, and I would rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. Without it, this project probably would not exist—not because the idea was missing, but because the time was.
It still took real work to shape the product, verify sources, test edge cases, and refine the tone. But it is a good example of what one person can now bring into the world—work that might have required a small team only a few years ago.
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