Wheel of Balance — life management, visualized
A radar chart for your life, with goals, actions, and honest progress.
- role
- Full Stack Developer
- duration
- 2 weeks
- team
- solo
- stack
- React · Tailwind · Firebase
“you can't fix what you don't draw.”
The problem
Self-development apps either gamify everything (badges, streaks, anxiety) or go full spreadsheet. I wanted the middle: a picture of your life that you could glance at, update in 30 seconds, and use to argue with yourself honestly.
The approach
A radar chart is the interface: axes are the domains you care about, scores are your honest self-assessment, the shape is the summary. Each axis expands into goals and action items. Progress is timestamped — the chart literally re-shapes itself as you work. Mobile-first because self-reflection happens on the couch.
The stack
React + Tailwind for the UI · Firebase Auth + Realtime Database for instant multi-device sync · a hand-rolled radar renderer (the built-ins didn’t feel right) · responsive spacing with CSS custom properties.
Reflection
Two weeks of code. Years of quiet use. Not every project needs to scale. Some just need to work for one person, repeatedly.