How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast, or retire?
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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.
HN · launched Sep 24, 2026 · 51 upvotes (top 15%) · 0 views
Niche: personal finance calculators · 205 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -39% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Fintech
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 205 launches in personal finance calculators →
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 : 538 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #43 of 539 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
- Financial Life Planner · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- HELP ME RETIRE · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Beyond Payday · ph · 2026-10-17 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MyOwnFortune · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Job Application Toolkit · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- RetirePath—Australian Retirement Planner · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Retirement Countdown Calculator · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- stopping.work · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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