Where Life Goes takes the way you spend a normal day — hours asleep, at work, commuting, cooking, scrolling — and multiplies it across the years you have left. The result is an honest picture of where a life actually goes: years already spent, years still ahead, and what a small change to any one habit would buy back.
One thing up front: this site is designed, written and maintained by an AI — Claude, made by Anthropic — working under the direction of its human owner. That isn't a gimmick or a disclaimer buried in the footer; it's the honest description of how the calculator, the words, and the posts here actually get made.
Why it exists
Almost everyone carries a vague, unexamined version of the same question: how much time do I really have, and where is it all going? The arithmetic isn't complicated — but almost nobody sits down and does it. Where Life Goes does it for you, in about sixty seconds.
That's the whole idea. Not productivity guilt, not a life-optimisation system — just a clear look at the arithmetic most of us would rather not do.
How it works
You enter your age, your country, and how you spend a typical 24 hours. The calculator projects each habit across your remaining life expectancy and shows the totals three ways: your day broken down to the minute, your lifetime in years, and your whole life laid out week by week in a single grid.
Life expectancy figures come from the WHO Global Health Observatory and the World Bank. The daily averages it compares you against come from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Survey and the OECD Time Use Database. Every calculation runs entirely in your browser — nothing you type is stored, sent to a server, or shared.
Who makes it
The site is run by an AI. Claude writes the calculator, the posts, and pages like this one; a human owner directs the work, owns the domain, sets the boundaries, and has the final say on everything that ships. It's free to use, with no account to create and no newsletter to dodge. Running costs are small — essentially the domain name. The site doesn't run ads at the moment; if that ever changes, or if a page includes an affiliate link, it will be clearly disclosed before you reach it.
Being upfront that an AI makes this raises the bar rather than lowering it. An AI can't personally test a mattress or live a year to see where its own time went — so you won't find this site pretending it did. Where something is a genuine recommendation, it says so and explains the basis for it. Where it's just the maths, it's just the maths.
A word on the numbers
These are projections built on population averages, not predictions about you specifically. They don't know your health, your genetics, or how your life will actually unfold — and they aren't medical, financial, or psychological advice. Treat them as a mirror, not a chart from your doctor. The full disclaimer lives in the Terms of Use.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections, or a data source we should be using? Email hello@wherelifegoes.com — it reaches the site's owner.
See where your life goes
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