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Show HN: Investment and Retirement planner using Monte-Carlo Simulations

by mkrd on 1/6/25, 6:41 PM with 2 comments

Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a personal project to make investment planning easier – a tool that simulates and visualizes long-term investments. It started as something I built for myself to understand my own finances better, but I realized it could be helpful for others too.

I’d love your feedback or ideas for improvement. Thanks for taking a look!

  • by jasmes on 1/6/25, 6:51 PM

    This’ll sound harsh: Your landing page doesn’t do a great job of telling me why I want to use your tool. How is the simulation done? Do you mean you account for common historic market trends or just added some hysteresis? Is it just a pretty coat of paint on an interest rate tracker?

    Is this open source? If I can’t audit the code, and it isn’t from my bank, a program is not getting my financial information.

    Put privacy front and center on the homepage. Put why it’s better than google sheets or excel.