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by scubakid 4y ago
Do you think you might try to procedurally generate additional levels? Or craft them by hand?
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It's also super useful for exploring the spectrum of potential outcomes in financial projections / retirement scenarios. People are sometimes tempted to think in the simpler terms of average rates of return and not fully consider
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by scubakid 4y ago
Sounds like I need to make the newsletter more discoverable. Currently it only pops up if you go to the blog or if you do the onboarding wizard or sandbox. I'll take a note to add it to the homepage as well.
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by scubakid 4y ago
I'm building a privacy-friendly personal finance simulator that doesn't ask to link your accounts (projectionlab.com), and can run Monte Carlo simulations in your browser and keeps data client-side unless you choose otherwise. I&#
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by scubakid 4y ago
RLM on HN... What is this, some kind of crossover episode? Didn't expect to see it, but I'm not disappointed!
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My experience launching on Product Hunt(indiehackers.com)
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by scubakid 4y ago
Growing up in a catholic household, what I mostly felt as a kid was cognitive dissonance and guilt... but to each their own.
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by scubakid 4y ago
Is my intuition right that this is not achievable on a smartphone due to the limited/fixed apertures?
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by scubakid 4y ago
I like the term lifestyle business... but I'd be hesitant to use it until the business actually supported my lifestyle. To acquaintances, I'll often just say "I'm building an app". Small business is a decent alterna
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by scubakid 4y ago
100%. Or actually maybe I should say 75%... I think you're spot on that industry veterans, seasoned entrepreneurs, and assorted commenters (myself included of course), often give advice that's not quite calibrated to one's sp
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by scubakid 4y ago
Is this a hot take on the risks of going into business with friends? Or a hot take on... friends in general?
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by scubakid 4y ago
"not dying" is surprisingly underrated these days :D
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by scubakid 4y ago
Visual editor seems pretty cool. Can summit do probabilistic things like monte carlo simulation as well, or is it scoped to deterministic projection?
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by scubakid 4y ago
Curious to hear more about your idea if you feel like sharing. Is your 100k ARR target an estimate based on research into the space or more like a notional goal you'd be content with reaching?
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by scubakid 4y ago
I've been shown a couple tools geared for startups that some of my users had been playing around with, but those didn't look modern or nuanced enough to me. I haven't done a formal search though, so perhaps there are good thi
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by scubakid 4y ago
Another thing to be cautious about is folks who steer your idea in a new direction towards a larger TAM (with bigger encumbents) because they don't see how the current idea can 1000X. Sometimes, intentionally going after a market niche
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by scubakid 4y ago
I guess it depends on what you mean by worse. In my case, I abandoned excel and rebuilt the tool as a web app using Vue.js, Chart.js, Firebase, etc., which is what ProjectionLab is now. More overall development work, but the end result is w
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by scubakid 4y ago
Excel is great until suddenly it's not. When I started building ProjectionLab, it began as an excel spreadsheet that (at first) was easy to share and explain to friends and family who wanted a better retirement plan. But as they asked
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by scubakid 4y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience! I agonized over that name change for so long that I even built a custom name generator and availability checker to run through all the permutations of relevant words, themes, prefixes, suffixes, etc... al
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by scubakid 4y ago
Yep, the PL discord is perfect for that.
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by scubakid 4y ago
That's awesome. Makes me happy to hear it's helped others weigh the same kind of decisions that I have. At this point it still feels like a pipe dream to one day be able to go full-time on it, but either way the plan is to keep ma
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by scubakid 4y ago
Before this, that was me. In fact, PL originally started as just a spreadsheet I shared around with a few friends, but as I added more to that it became exponentially more difficult to maintain. All the formulas got really nasty, which made
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by scubakid 4y ago
Glad to hear someone likes the email updates! Usually it feels like sending those into the void. If you ever want to beta test and help shape new features before they make it to production, I post to #early-access in the discord fairly ofte
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by scubakid 4y ago
Wow, good eye! I see you're one of the OG people who tried it out. If there's still a product area you'd like to see fleshed out more, do let me know. It's been a whirlwind of a year trying to maintain a high development
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by scubakid 4y ago
A year and a half ago I started building a better personal finance simulator / retirement calculator, mainly for myself and friends/family to use. I was about T-minus one week from halting work on it and starting something else wh
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by scubakid 4y ago
For the past year, I've been building a simulator for personal finance called ProjectionLab (projectionlab.com) It goes pretty far beyond the standard retirement calculators, and is finally at the point where I'm seeing better tha
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by scubakid 4y ago
In my experience, the most consistent way to get useful feedback on side projects or prototypes is to engage with people where they already are (Show HN posts for instance, or certain subreddits). My intuition is it would be hard for this k
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by scubakid 4y ago
Any idea what happened under the hood there? Do you think you just accidentally guessed an existing username/password combo? Or something more troubling?
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It's almost like the platforms were designed and optimized to keep you on them ;)
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by scubakid 4y ago
Hmmm, are some FAANG roles just way less onerous than I've always imagined? My experience with OMSCS is that it's pretty straightforward if you can already build stuff, and even more so if you can write too. Without a CS backgroun

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