Make the most of your limited life, with ideas aligned with your goals

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Make the most of your limited life, with ideas aligned with your goals

I've been thinking during the past years of building a website that would be: - aligned my views. - lean. no bloat. - useful. Early 2025 I noticed how hard it was to come up with good ideas of how to use my free time to the fullest. Even though there are tons of exciting things to do in the world, not all were aligned with my ideals. At the same time, our time here on Earth is _very_ limited, and in between busy lives and distractions, opportunities, time and energy pass, even though it might not seem like it. We've been given a beautiful gift, and we should honour it. That's where the idea to build vivotime.net came up. It shows you, without any sugar coating, how much life time you are predicted to have left, and then according to your goals, it suggests a series of meaningful ideas that you can allocate and manage for the time you have left. That's it. ---- https://www.vivotime.net/ was implemented using laravel, livewire, picoCSS and a sqlite database. I've tried to make it as lean as possible. No need for a overpowered MySQL database, or using tailwind, react, vue, or any other (default) technology du jour. There is something beautiful about keeping things contained to their essence, with nothing more, nothing less than what is required.