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Best Life

An interactive scavenger hunt and curated calendar feed for getting the most out of your neighborhood.

Best Life is a two-part personal project (a single-file interactive scavenger hunt and an importable calendar feed of recurring local events) designed to make it effortless to live richly in a neighborhood. The hunt gamifies exploration; the calendar makes showing up automatic.

The Problem

Moving to a new neighborhood, or wanting to engage more deeply with the one you're in, means discovering what's actually happening nearby (farmers' markets, free concerts, historical landmarks, local institutions) and then remembering to show up. That information is fragmented across dozens of websites, and most calendars don't guide exploration.

The Solution

A self-contained HTML scavenger hunt checklist with persistent progress, per-item timestamps, and a JSON export, plus an importable iCalendar feed of recurring local events so showing up becomes passive rather than active. Both files are plain text, with no build step and no dependencies, so the project is trivially adaptable to any neighborhood.

Key Features