Some developers use their weekends to develop cool and grandiose projects to learn new technologies and to double down as second (or third) sources of income... instead, I used this past weekend, to develop a small and silly project.
I developed a web page that calculates how much money Jeff Bezos makes while you read it: Bezos' Calculator.
It is a mixture of tongue in cheek and social criticism (bubbles pop up with milestones comparing it to other salaries and goods.) The numbers are based on these articles by Bloomberg and BuzzFeed, which calculate Jeff Bezos' gains increase by $3,605 every second.
Initially, the counter was not animated. But the original animation did not work on Safari, so I opted for going with the non-animated version... until @afif provided some feedback and recommendation in the comments, and I updated the animation to this:
One fun thing about the project is how equally it distributed it is:
It is a tiny thing (just one page), so it makes sense that the percentages of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are more or less proportional. It's just the first time I see it like that. Normally one of the languages would dominate the project.
Top comments (16)
This is amazing and depressing at the same time.
especially if you living in 3rd world country
One thing for sure, even Elon Musk had to leave to the US from SA before he could start getting top dollar..
Animating content is always buggy, check this: jsfiddle.net/a25m69rf/ : You only need to animate transform (better for performance) and you should not have safari issue. The CSS variables it to dynamically define the last number but you don't need it in your example
Thanks for the recommendation. I updated the animation a little based on your example. Thanks again!
This is a great idea! And I kind of like more that type of animation too. thanks for the suggestion!
This is very depressing 😅
I love this.
It would be interesting to follow the median house costs around your state or country.
This is amazing!
I would like to build a similar calculator for the corrupt government officers in my country one day.
Great work. There used to be a similar one for Gareth Bale - the footballer - after he joined Real Madrid.
Thanks!
зависть - плохое чувство!
This looks great Alvaro, Liked it :)
And at the same time, the most unhappy person on earth.
Hi Alvaro, I really like this. Such a cool idea. Nice animation.
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