Basis Land  ·  Range

Know how far your home can go.

Your home runs on systems you don’t own — the grid, the tap, the supply chain. Range measures how long it could run without them.

Not a stockpile. A gauge.
Open RangeFree · in your browser · works offline
RangeLive
24days of
range
030 DAYS
StatusLimited — Water
The difference

Readiness isn’t a bigger pile.

Prepping counts what you’ve stored. Range measures what you no longer need to store. A well that out-produces your use makes you water-independent with an empty barrel; solar that covers your load turns the next outage into a non-event.

The goal was never more supplies. It’s fewer dependencies — Basis Land in three words: better with less.

What it measures

Four lifelines, counted in days.

Each anchored to a real standard, each read the same way — how far it carries you alone.

Calories
Food

Rice and canned beans buy very different days. Range counts real energy against 2,000 kcal a person, a day.

Liters
Water

Fifteen liters per person, per day — the WHO baseline. Barrels, tanks, rainfall: one total.

Kilowatt-hours
Energy

Grid, then solar, then storage. What matters is what still runs the day the grid won’t.

Runway
Money

The lifeline no prepper tracks: how long you hold when the income stops but the bills don’t.

How it reads

Two readings. One truth.

Autonomy
How far.

Your range is capped by its weakest lifeline. Range finds it and names it, so you always know where to reach next.

Readiness
How free.

From dependent to sovereign, it scores how little you lean on systems you don’t own — and rewards the system over the stockpile.

DependentTransitionerSovereignNode

Range also sizes your solar and battery, holds your inventory, and sets one real skill to drill each month.

When it counts

Steady when it matters.

The day something goes down — a storm, an outage — switch on the live view. Range stops assuming everything failed at once and recalculates to the single lifeline that runs out first.

No signal required. No account. Nothing leaves your device. The instrument you lean on shouldn’t lean on a connection.

Keep it close

One tap from your home screen.

Range is a web app — nothing to download. Save it to your phone and it opens full-screen, offline, in an instant.

iPhoneSafari
1Open app.basisland.com.
2Tap Share in the toolbar.
3Choose Add to Home Screen, then Add.
AndroidChrome
1Open app.basisland.com.
2Tap the menu .
3Choose Add to Home screen, then confirm.
Where it sits

One layer of Basis Land.

A philosophy you can read, an instrument you can run, and a network on the way.

L1
Philosophy — the writing and the Better-with-Less community.
L2
Range — the instrument that turns it into a number.
You’re here
L3
Network — independent homes, linking up. Coming.

Know how far your home can go.

Read your number in minutes. Then grow it.

Open Range
Basis Land · Better with Less