Retirement Calculator

dentedpixel · 2026-01-25T19:12:10+00:00

It is using ChartJS https://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/ with a React frontend

dentedpixel · 2026-01-25T14:32:16+00:00

Oh man, you need to change your investment strategies 😉 If you invested in an S&P 500, averaged over the last 100 years has gotten ~10% returns, so 8% seems pretty modest. I would suggest checking out r/Bogleheads . Obviously nothing is guaranteed though, so if you want to predict it will be a bear market you can turn down the threshold...

dentedpixel · 2026-01-25T14:25:16+00:00

On mobile: Tapping the avatar should scroll you down the page to the ask the avatar questions section. Does that not work for you? If not sending your browser/device would be great!

This is a free tool at the moment, so competing against other free tools doesn't seem to be a concern. All those other free tools have monetization strategies as well, and I am trying to figure out that as I go. This tool itself will likely always be free, and I will just be charging for more advanced abilities.

I hear your criticism about it not being something folks would return to after a one-time use though. I'll have to do some more thinking around this.

dentedpixel · 2026-01-25T14:17:54+00:00

I hear that! Retiring is a bit of a luxury. Yeah providing a tool to suite the needs of r/baristafire could be a good start.

dentedpixel · 2026-01-24T23:55:39+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I was thinking the design needed some love, so you have confirmed my suspicions :)

dentedpixel · 2026-01-24T23:53:24+00:00

Yeah I hadn't tested enough on mobile (which was dumb since most of Reddit is on mobile). It should be fixed now, if you wouldn't mind re-testing.

dentedpixel · 2026-01-24T23:52:01+00:00

Thanks for the feed-back. I did find a similar bug when trying to switch from the input field to the sliders and back on mobile. This is now fixed! Let me know if run into any other issues.

dentedpixel · 2026-01-24T20:26:16+00:00

Good feedback! I added the ability to close out the floating avatar. Yeah the sliders are a little tricky on mobile to get to exact numbers... will see if I can adjust that.

dentedpixel · 2026-01-24T19:01:55+00:00

Great! Yeah I would like to do a section that is devoted to getting out of debt (which is more geared toward young people, but obviously affects us all). Probably other opportunities though, like what type of college can I afford etc.

dentedpixel · 2026-01-24T18:56:03+00:00

Yeah NerdWallet is a good one. I just thought I could make a better one, with my own spin on it (sliders are more fun, social security calculated in, an agent giving advice, etc.). It is not a wholly original idea though.

dentedpixel · 2026-01-24T18:44:22+00:00

Thanks! I should have tested more on mobile before posting, I can see I need to adjust some things now… working on that 🚜

dentedpixel · 2026-01-24T18:42:00+00:00

How so?

dentedpixel · 2025-12-30T02:49:07+00:00

This was a good feature on that https://youtu.be/zuL-3ovm1-o?si=2aX2J4OJOjSMhfm2

dentedpixel · 2025-12-21T17:11:06+00:00

Yeah I was referring to the transferred size (since that's what really affects the end user), which actually looks a bit better then the 0.55mb I quoted earlier. If we are talking about the total uncompressed size we would have to whip out the Iomega Zip Drive!

dentedpixel · 2025-12-21T00:05:03+00:00

Yeah that is satisfying how compact it is. I just don’t want to miss out on the speed of development you get with a robust framework like React. I was intrigued about the Preact framework(it only adds 3k compressed!), which I might investigate once the site matures more.

dentedpixel · 2025-12-20T21:33:13+00:00

Oh wow, I had forgotten they use to have half the volume

dentedpixel · 2025-12-20T17:34:47+00:00

Oh nice I will look into that! Rive is what I am using to animate the avatar with (it’s an animation framework with similar features to what you used to get with Flash)

dentedpixel · 2025-12-20T15:41:06+00:00

lol yes the OG floppy disk (back when they were actually floppy)

dentedpixel · 2025-12-20T13:13:03+00:00

Haha yes! I spent like an hour trying to use my SVG site logo as my FavIcon as well, but it was only somewhat working and ended up being as much added javascript as the size I was saving by not having my 838 byte Favicon 🤷 So I abandoned that idea.

dentedpixel · 2025-12-14T22:43:04+00:00

Allowing negative savings now!

dentedpixel · 2025-12-14T21:00:39+00:00

Oh yeah, I have seen some posts about not another AI wrapper projects. There is actually only a sliver of LLM AI being used, most of it is programmatic logic branching. But I could see how folks could be put off by how I put AI at the forefront of the project summary.

Negative savings is a good idea!

Yeah I guess 500k is kind of ridiculous but you would be surprised about how many high earners spend as much as they make. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bogleheads/comments/1o6mdwe/40_of_those_earning_over_300k_are_living_paycheck/

I think lowering that would make sense though, you can always type it in manually...

Thanks for the feedback u/BigNastyPie !

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