Ikiru

About

Ikiru turns every price you see online into something more honest:
the amount of your life you'd trade for it.

$60 sneakers? "1h 14m" of your time.
$2,400 couch? "2 days, 2h" of your time.
$8 lunch? "10m" of your time.

It's the same number, just measured in the currency you actually
can't get more of — hours.

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HOW IT WORKS
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1. Tell Ikiru what you make (annual salary, hourly wage, or
   take-home pay per paycheck).
2. Browse normally. Ikiru quietly replaces dollar amounts on
   shopping sites, news articles, anywhere — with the time
   equivalent in a small inline badge.
3. Hover any badge to see the original price and a longer
   breakdown.

Math is done with your *post-tax, take-home* hourly rate, using
2025 U.S. federal brackets and standard deduction. You can override
the rate manually, set a custom pay frequency (weekly, biweekly,
semi-monthly, monthly), and toggle rounding.

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PRIVACY (READ THIS)
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• Your wage, settings, and history NEVER leave your computer.
• Zero network requests. Zero analytics. Zero telemetry.
• No accounts, no sign-in, no cloud sync.
• All processing happens locally in your browser.
• Storage is chrome.storage.local — readable only by this
  extension on your machine.

The extension only reads page text in order to find prices and
inject the time badge. That's it.

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WHAT'S CONVERTED
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✓ Standard text prices ($, €, £, ¥, more)
✓ Amazon's split-DOM prices (.a-price components)
✓ Discount/sale price layouts (–18% $409.99 → –18% [7h 6m])
✓ Price ranges ($20–$30)
✓ Live-updating prices via MutationObserver
✓ Tooltip on hover with original price + breakdown

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WHY "IKIRU"
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Ikiru (生きる) is Japanese for "to live." It's the title of a
1952 Kurosawa film about a bureaucrat who realizes he has
months left and finally asks what his time was worth.

Most price tags answer the wrong question: "What does this
cost me in money I'll just earn back?"
Ikiru answers the real one: "How much of my finite life
am I trading for this?"

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SUPPORT
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Issues, ideas, or wage-math edge cases? Open the extension
options page → "Report an issue".