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While it’s cool to have prebuilt scenarios without signing up. I couldn’t predict my own without signing up. I closed the tab.

lolinder 5y ago
I'm not sure what you were seeing, but I spent a solid hour playing with my own data without (yet) creating an account. Aside from that, this kind of low-effort dismissal ("has/lacks X, closed the tab") plagues a lot of Show HNs, and it's not constructive. If you really feel so strongly against signing up, it would be more constructive to explain why you feel that way and suggest ways OP could improve their project. As it is this comment doesn't contribute to any meaningful discussion, it just comes off as rude.
- gabereiser 5y ago
  I was able to put my data in. The simulation predictions still showed $1m+ retirement data. Also, I feel strongly against signing up for stuff because I already get tons of spam marketing from sites that I have signed up. I also am very protective over who knows what about my money.
  - scubakid 5y ago
    For what it's worth, data already stays client-side by default. If you upgrade and enable saving, you can choose from localStorage only, cloud sync, or manually importing/exporting JSON files.
scubakid 5y ago
When you say you "couldn't predict your own", what do you mean? You should be able to do everything possible in the free tier without signing up.
- gabereiser 5y ago
  When I put my data in, the simulation didn’t update. It was still showing me $1m+ retirement predictions.
  - scubakid 5y ago
    If you feel like there's something amiss, always happy to help troubleshoot. There are definitely a lot of inputs, so there are quite a few places where an errant input could have a large effect on the long-term outlook. When you say "didn't update" though, that sounds odd... does that imply you were somehow seeing no change at all in a plan despite making radical changes to configuration? Or something else?

lolinder 5y ago

I'm not sure what you were seeing, but I spent a solid hour playing with my own data without (yet) creating an account. Aside from that, this kind of low-effort dismissal ("has/lacks X, closed the tab") plagues a lot of Show HNs, and it's not constructive. If you really feel so strongly against signing up, it would be more constructive to explain why you feel that way and suggest ways OP could improve their project. As it is this comment doesn't contribute to any meaningful discussion, it just comes off as rude.

gabereiser 5y ago
I was able to put my data in. The simulation predictions still showed $1m+ retirement data. Also, I feel strongly against signing up for stuff because I already get tons of spam marketing from sites that I have signed up. I also am very protective over who knows what about my money.
- scubakid 5y ago
  For what it's worth, data already stays client-side by default. If you upgrade and enable saving, you can choose from localStorage only, cloud sync, or manually importing/exporting JSON files.

scubakid 5y ago

When you say you "couldn't predict your own", what do you mean? You should be able to do everything possible in the free tier without signing up.

gabereiser 5y ago
When I put my data in, the simulation didn’t update. It was still showing me $1m+ retirement predictions.
- scubakid 5y ago
  If you feel like there's something amiss, always happy to help troubleshoot. There are definitely a lot of inputs, so there are quite a few places where an errant input could have a large effect on the long-term outlook. When you say "didn't update" though, that sounds odd... does that imply you were somehow seeing no change at all in a plan despite making radical changes to configuration? Or something else?