How Rich Are You?

A dependency-free 90s-style web calculator that turns income into a playful global rank estimate.

Live site: https://how-rich-are-you.apoorvdarshan.com/

• 90s-style single-page income rank calculator.
• Desktop layout shaped for a 1200x630 Open Graph-style preview.
• Mobile responsive layout with stacked form/results.
• Most-used currency dropdown with flags.
• 100-item broke/rich meme GIF reaction pool from bundled files plus hardcoded Giphy/Tenor media URLs.
• One shuffled random GIF appears only after each calculation.
• Vercel Web Analytics for deployed page views and a Calculate custom event.
• Old-school visible visitor counter that increments once per page load.
• Open Graph and Twitter/X preview image at assets/og-image.jpg.

Run it locally:

python3 -m http.server 3000

Then open http://localhost:3000.

This is a toy estimate, not financial advice or a rigorous statistical product. The percentile curve is hand-shaped from public global inequality guideposts and deliberately shown as approximate.

References used for context:

• UN World Population Prospects 2024: https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/world-population-prospects-2024
• World Inequality Report 2022 / WID.world: https://wir2022.wid.world/executive-summary/

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