I built a MACRS calculator because TurboTax was overkill
Details
- External ID
- 46725506
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I built a MACRS calculator because TurboTax was overkill
- Website domain
- whatsmydepreciation.co
- Launched
- Jan. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5586297760210803
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- calculators and financial estimation tools
- Vertical
- Fintech
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- macrs depreciation calculator for individuals
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A MACRS depreciation calculator relies on straightforward, well-documented IRS percentage tables and depreciation formulas that can easily be implemented in a simple web app.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Expensive accounting software, Oversimplified calculators
Competitors
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Attention rank: #26 of 69 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 80 days after the earliest competitor.
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Same idea, different domain
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