How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast, or retire?
Details
- External ID
- 49826059
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast, or retire?
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 51
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8548644338118022
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
I made a financial planning tool in a couple hours that can model various stages of life and potentially guide job searching and work timelines.
Enrichment
- Theme
- financial and labor market data tools
- Vertical
- Fintech
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- retirement calculator for workers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a client-side retirement and coast-FIRE calculator built with basic financial formulas, input sliders, and charting libraries.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: ficalc.app
Concerns raised: High healthcare costs before Medicare eligibility, Economic contraction invalidating retirement models, US property taxes making aging in place difficult
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 204 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #21 of 205 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
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- MyOwnFortune · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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- Job Application Toolkit · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- I made a simulator for personal finance (5 year update) · hn · 2026-05-03 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- I made a retirement simulator: 125 years of data, 25 countries · hn · 2026-08-26 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Ifso.io · hn · 2026-09-20 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- FinanceFlows Budget Planner · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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