Software

Well Lived

A launch site for a time and energy tracker, with the app's main feature playing in the hero and a scroll that zooms one real day out to a whole life in weeks.

Well Lived website, after
The finished site

The brief

A new app, no site, and a waitlist to fill before launch. The site had to explain a kind of tracker most people have never used, show the app working before anyone could sign in, and report which ads and links were bringing people in.

What changed

  • The hero plays the app's main feature: a spoken sentence types itself out and becomes four time entries, each with how it felt
  • One real log, zoomed on scroll from a day to its week, its year, and a whole life drawn one square per week
  • A birth-year slider that counts the weeks you've lived, worked out in the browser with nothing sent
  • Nine feature pages, each with a working preview of that part of the app
  • Landing pages for founders, people tracking their energy, people with a chronic condition, and people with a ring or watch, each with its own headline and example day
  • Comparison pages for the apps people weigh it against, with prices read from the same file as the pricing page
  • A waitlist that sends a confirmation email and records which ad or tagged link brought each sign-up
  • Privacy and terms in plain language, including the section Google requires before an app can use Google account data

The facts

Client
Well Lived (founder-owned)
New site
Next.js, Markdown content
Year
2026
Live
welllived.io

The story

Well Lived is a time and energy tracker. You describe your day in a sentence or two, typed or spoken, and it turns that into a log: what you did, for how long, and how each part felt. Over a few weeks it shows where the hours go and which of them give you energy. Our founder built the app, and we built its site.

Where we started

There was no site, and the public launch was a few weeks out. The site had two jobs before then. It had to explain a tracker most people haven't used in the few seconds a visitor gives a new page. And it had to show which messages bring in the people who want it, so the launch budget goes to the ads that work.

What we built

The app, running in the hero. In place of a screenshot, the hero plays the main feature. A sentence types itself out as if spoken, then four entries appear with their times, areas of life, and energy scores. Visitors see what the app does in the first few seconds. With reduced motion on, the finished entries are there from the start.

A day, then a life. Further down, the page holds still while you scroll through one real log: a single day, then its week, the year around it, and finally a whole life drawn as one square per week. The next section hands the grid to the visitor. Slide to your birth year and it shows how many weeks you've lived and how many are likely ahead. The math runs in the browser, and nothing is sent or saved.

The life-in-weeks grid on welllived.io, with a birth-year slider

Everything on one timeline. Meals, workouts, sleep, heart rate, and the people you saw appear on the hour they happened, so a visitor can see how the pieces of one day line up. Each feature page goes deeper on one of them, with a working preview of that part of the app.

An example day on welllived.io, with sleep, a workout, a meal, a call, dinner, and reading on one timeline

A page for each kind of reader. Founders, people tracking their energy, people with a chronic condition, and people with a ring or watch each get a landing page with their own headline and an example day in words they'd use. These are the pages the ads point to.

Sign-ups that say where they came from. The waitlist keeps the tags from the link a visitor arrived on, and every sign-up notification names the ad or post that brought them. Ad headlines are compared on sign-ups, which is the number that matters before launch.

Prices in one place. Plans and prices appear on the pricing page and on every comparison page. They all read from one data file, so a price change is one edit.

Timeline

The site went from first commit to open for search engines in four days. The waitlist and ad tracking followed in the same week.

Full page. Scroll inside the frame.

Well Lived website, the new site, full page
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