Reroll your birth at random, weighted by the world’s real population. Compare your life elsewhere: life expectancy, income, school, democracy, peace.
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Hi Product Hunt 👋
I'm Phil, a graphic designer from Belgium. None of us chose where we were born, and I wanted to make that feel real for a minute rather than explain it.
Born Somewhere is a small conceptual art experiment:
• You type your first name and your country. Then: "YOU NO LONGER EXIST."
• A roulette globe gives you a new birth, weighted by the real number of babies born in each country today (so roughly 1 in 6 lands in India, very few in Luxembourg).
• You get clues ("From now on, your name is Oluwaseun") and 3 tries to find your new country on the globe.
• Then you discover that life in numbers (life expectancy, income, school, etc.), and one question: would you trade your real life for this one?
No account, no ranking of "better" or "worse" countries, just public data (UN, World Bank, UNDP…) and a lime-dotted globe.
I'd love to hear where you landed, and what surprised you.
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Hi Product Hunt 👋
I'm Phil, a graphic designer from Belgium. None of us chose where we were born, and I wanted to make that feel real for a minute rather than explain it.
Born Somewhere is a small conceptual art experiment:
• You type your first name and your country. Then: "YOU NO LONGER EXIST."
• A roulette globe gives you a new birth, weighted by the real number of babies born in each country today (so roughly 1 in 6 lands in India, very few in Luxembourg).
• You get clues ("From now on, your name is Oluwaseun") and 3 tries to find your new country on the globe.
• Then you discover that life in numbers (life expectancy, income, school, etc.), and one question: would you trade your real life for this one?
No account, no ranking of "better" or "worse" countries, just public data (UN, World Bank, UNDP…) and a lime-dotted globe.
I'd love to hear where you landed, and what surprised you.