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Dharma Lab

Absurd totals, lovingly calculated.

A collection of humorous calculators that reveal lifetime numbers through simple math — the kind of statistics you did not request and cannot unsee.

Questions nobody should ask. Answers nobody can unsee.

Featured app

Life Odometer

Estimate how much of one activity you have already burned through — pizza, meetings, coffee, or whatever your week keeps repeating.

Run the calculator

Formula

age × 52 × freq × amount

Output

Lifetime total + one regretful sentence

Status

Live · local only

Life Odometer

All math runs in your browser. Nothing is saved.

Lifetime total

10,920

35 years × 52 weeks × 2/week × 3 slices

You have consumed approximately 10,920 slices, enough to make your cardiologist quietly open a spreadsheet.

Also live

New hatchlings from the same questionable spreadsheet.

Court Translator

Live

Convert legal prose into what people actually meant.

Open

Founder Delusion Index

Live

Measure optimism against runway in real time.

Open

Court Translator

Not legal advice. Just what the paragraph was probably thinking.

What they actually meant

A workable translation. Still not legal advice — just emotional clarity.

  • Detectedhigh

    good faith

    You will eventually argue in a group chat at 11pm.

  • Detectedmedium

    Exchange shall take place

    Someone will be five minutes late and emotionally prepared.

  • Detectedhigh

    Failure to comply may result in sanctions

    The judge has a disappointed-parent voice ready.

Generated by Dharma Lab Court Translator™ — for amusement only. Consult an actual attorney before arguing with ex-partners, judges, or PDFs.

Founder Delusion Index

Runway math meets narrative physics. Investors not included.

Founder Delusion Index

100

🔥 Full Founder's Mode

You are the main character. The cap table is a subplot.

Roughly 8 months at $81,000/mo net burn — $648,000 before the inspirational LinkedIn post.

  • Runway under twelve months (+16): optimism meets calendar.
  • MRR covers less than 25% of burn (+14): revenue is a guest star.
  • "12" AI-native mentions this week (+48).
  • 7 competitors "not relevant" (+21).
  • 22 vision slides (+28): the TAM slide has a TAM slide.
  • 2 skipped board updates (+10).
  • “We don't need sales yet” (+12): famous last slide.

More calculators (coming soon)

Still incubating. Probably for the best.

Relationship ROI

Soon

Quantify affection against effort with uncomfortable precision.

Regret Calculator

Soon

Estimate the compound interest on decisions you saw coming.

Moon Calculator

Soon

How many times you have looked up and thought about starting over.

Meeting Death Calculator

Soon

Translate recurring meetings into lost sunsets.

Text Message Archaeology

Soon

Excavate years of threads for one buried apology.

Dharma Lab · front-end MVP · no database · no auth · purely for amusement and mild existential clarity.