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Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

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Post by scubakid »

tverbeure wrote: post #87
scubakid wrote: post #67

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What browser/OS? (unless you'd rather not share, that's fine too). I just re-tested chrome, safari, and firefox on Mac OS and seems like the close tab warning works as expected. That being said, it's always possible there's some specific flow that's not handled properly, so I'd be curious to hear more details if you remember. To clarify what I meant on the recovery mechanism, the current implementation is what folks…

It was Win10/Chrome. Definitely did not see a warning (though I was aware that the data would be lost.) > ... but does currently require signing up for the free trial. I don't remember the exact working. Did it explicitly mention the free trial in the data recovery dialog? > My guess on effective tax rate is it was likely including property taxes. Adding those to the numerator during retirement when taxable income is…

Oh dang, you're right! I thought the recovery process made the free trial aspect clear, but it's not explicit enough if you bail without viewing the upgrade page. I've taken a note to improve the copy.

Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

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Post by jstummbillig »

scubakid wrote: post #10
jstummbillig wrote: post #7

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If you want to make it a lifetime thing maybe consider giving 6+ month trials to hook people in and show skin. I considered this for this type of app. Congratulations on the launch!

Thanks, good point. I do grant extended trials on request (as described on the pricing page), but maybe I should make that a more prominent thing?

I think you could easily use it to drive a point home: It's designed to be a for life SaaS -- and you believe in that design so much that the first year of many to come is on you.

Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

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Post by robertlagrant »

scubakid wrote: post #38
j45 wrote: post #35

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I like that this is a solo-dev project, but there's probably loke, a good chunk of people who like this tool likely have built some kind of spreadsheet or other thing to get close to it and likely know exactly what they would like to see for certain things. Having the abilty to perhaps build our own models and keep them to ourselves, or maybe have them available to share might not be a bad idea. I'm not sure if this…

Having a little trouble parsing the specific feature ideas here. It seems like one of them may be an ability to share a read-only view of your plans... but on the other(s) I might need a little more detail.

Being from the UK, having a plugin layer able to differentiate US from UK implications on finances would be extremely useful. But also as a fellow developer I hate to recommend a level of refactoring that might break you!

Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

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Post by mcemilg »

I liked it, highly detailed and wanted to try. I created a plan and it showed me that I am going to bankrupt in two years :). Seems like it is not suitable for economically unstable countries like Turkey. Many factors that can affect your financial plan are out of your control here. Inflation is changing every month, nothing can be predictable, salary is draining even if you promoted in your job. You need stronger methods than monte carlo simulations to survive here...

Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

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Post by scubakid »

itake wrote: post #93

I miss when websites had username only login. I get that password recovery is a thing, but I use a password manager. Why do you need my email address?

In this case, I'm using Firebase auth and didn't see an auth provider option to allow username only. I think it may let you sign up with a nonexistent email though, so maybe that's close-ish to what you were looking for?

Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

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Post by scubakid »

robertlagrant wrote: post #97
scubakid wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having a little trouble parsing the specific feature ideas here. It seems like one of them may be an ability to share a read-only view of your plans... but on the other(s) I might need a little more detail.

Being from the UK, having a plugin layer able to differentiate US from UK implications on finances would be extremely useful. But also as a fellow developer I hate to recommend a level of refactoring that might break you!

have you seen the UK tax template (plan settings > tax) and account types? curious what additional controls / differentiation you'd like to see.
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